Monthly Archives: October 2009

Horror Movies Available At The Library

Just in time for Halloween, here’s a select list of horror DVDs available right here at the library. DVDs can be checked out for 7 days and in most cases can be renewed online. The DVD collection is located in

Posted in Film Studies

Reminder: Masten on Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-19th Century NY, October 28 @ 12:45

Melville Library Author Series: Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York featuring April F. Masten, Associate Professor of History. Mary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist.

Posted in Events

Zotero Workshop on 10/28

Empower Your Browser With Zotero Zotero is a free browser plug-in for Firefox that allows users to collect, manage and cite research sources. Zotero is platform independent and doesn’t discriminate based on institutional affiliation. It is a web-based application that

Posted in Library Instruction

Southampton Library Workshops on 10/27 and 10/28

Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Basic Skills Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote X2, a bibliographic management software program, this task just became much easier. In this workshop learn: How

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Using EndNote and PubMed Workshop on 10/27

This workshop will cover the basics of the EndNote bibliographic management program with an emphasis on using the tool with PubMed. In this workshop learn: How to create an EndNote Library How to download results from a PubMed literature search

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LexisNexis Scheduled Service Outage on October 31

The LexisNexis Academic, Congressional, and Statistical databases will be unavailable beginning Saturday, October 31st, at 9:00pm until Sunday, November 1st, 5:00am.

Posted in Databases

Get Your Learn On: Web Research 2.0

Web research is like juggling dynamite: done right it’s spectacular, done wrong it blows up in your face. Effective Web research requires training and knowledge of select tools and resources. Learn how to do it right: • 10 rules for

Posted in Library Instruction

Extra! Extra! Become an Expert at Finding New & Historic Newspaper Articles!

This session examines ways to find current and historical articles in newspapers. We’ll look at online indexes and collections of digitized newspapers, as well as explore old-fashioned ways to dig in the newspaper archives. In this workshop, you will: Become

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Research Skills for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies on 10/20 @ 12 PM

This workshop will focus on the skills needed to do advanced research in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Learn: Where to find information (books, articles, and websites) Which resources are best for your subject area About the strengths of Stony

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Empower Your Browser with Zotero on 10/20 @ 7 PM Online

Zotero is a free browser plug-in for Firefox that allows users to collect, manage and cite research sources. Zotero is platform independent and doesn’t discriminate based on institutional affiliation. It is a web-based application that allows access to your library

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