Monthly Archives: June 2013

Southampton Windmill Literary Landmark Dedication Ceremony

The historic and iconic windmill on the Southampton campus of Stony Brook University has won designation as a Literary Landmark from United for Libraries, a division of the  American Library Association. Landmark status was granted to the windmill based on

Posted in Events, Special Collections & University Archives, Writing and Literature

Trial Database: Archive Finder (formerly ArchivesUSA)

Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland), previously available on CD-ROM. ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,600 repositories and more than 175,000 collections of primary source material across

Posted in Database Trials, Electronic Resources, Manuscripts, Special Collections & University Archives

Long Overdue Photocopy Features Now Available

If you’ve been in the Library recently  you may have noticed that the clunky coin boxes that formerly accompanied our photocopy machines have been done away with.  In their place, a card swipe machine for your Stony Brook University IDs

Posted in Libraries, Technology

NARA Launches Founders Online

The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create Founders Online and make freely available the historical documents of the Founders of the United States

Posted in Databases, Electronic Resources, History, Manuscripts, New and Notable, Open Access, Scholarly Communication, Special Collections & University Archives

Constantia Constantinou Presents at the International Conference in Qualitative and Quantitative Measures in Libraries, Rome, Italy

Constantia Constantinou made a presentation titled, “Delivering library services and information research in support of distance education” at the International Conference in Qualitative and Quantitative Measures in Libraries (QQML), June 4-7, 2013, Rome, Italy.

Posted in Global Initiatives

Welcome! Please Pardon Our Rubble

There are changes afoot in the Central Reading Room!

Posted in Central Reading Room

Art Criticism Now Online!

               Art Criticism now online Art Criticism was published by the Department of Art’s program of Art History and Criticism starting in the spring of 1979 and commencing in the spring of 2010.  During that period,

Posted in Art, Digital Collections, Environmental Art, Architecture and Design, Libraries, Library Science, New and Notable, Preservation