Monthly Archives: April 2013

Ultimate Frisbee and SBU Libraries “hangout” at Staller steps

Come join Stony Brook’s Ultimate Frisbee team and SBU Libraries for some fun activities on May 1st during campus lifetime on the Staller steps! Kan Jam will be set up as well as a game of fricket. The library will

Posted in Events

Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture 2013

On Monday April 22 at 4 PM at Laufer Center Lecture Hall 1 (near Life Sciences Building), the Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture will be presented by the 8th Prelec Visiting Scholar, Nancy Roderer, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Former Director of the

Posted in Health Sciences Library, Medicine

Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference under way

The Association for Asian American Studies is having its annual conference in Seattle April 17- 20, 2013.  The theme of the conference is “The afterlives of empire.”  See conference program for full list of plenary speakers and sessions. For library

Posted in Asian and Asian American Studies

String Quartet Performs in the Galleria

Today Bryan Lu, a music student who works in the Music Library, and the members of the String Quartet, Chris Ferrera, Joo Hye Lim and Eunkyu Yoon, performed Mendelssohn’s 2nd String Quartet in A minor. The performance was held during

Posted in Music, Music Library

April contests, activities in the Central Reading Room

This month the Central Reading Room is providing patrons with fun distractions and a chance at prizes, just for using our services.

Posted in Central Reading Room, Libraries, Library Outreach, Melville Library, New and Notable, Reference, Research

Library Galleria Music Performance

This Wednesday, April 17th, Bryan Lu, a music student who works in the Music Library, and the members of a String Quartet will perform Mendelssohn’s 2nd String Quartet in A minor. Their wish is to share their music with the

Posted in Events

New for Sustainability Studies: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability

Available now online, the 10 volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability. This interdisciplinary publication draws from the natural, physical, and social sciences – geophysics, engineering, and resource management, to name a few – and from philosophy and religion. The result is

Posted in Sustainability

Michael Huang Presents at Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Michael Huang, Librarian of the Health Sciences Library, presented “Open access to research literature in the humanities and social sciences” at the College of Foreign Languages of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, on April 24, 2013.

Posted in Global Initiatives

DATABASE TRIAL: New-York Historical Society Digital Archives

EBSCO has released two new Digital Archive Databases from Collections at the New-York Historical Society. Trials of the two databases are available through June 9, 2013. Gateway to North America: People, Places, and Organizations of 19th-Century New York Collection of

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Database Trials, Digital Collections, Economics, History, Journalism, Music, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theatre