Yearly Archives: 2014

#SeawolvesReadEverywhere

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Do Seawolves read everywhere? Apparently they do, as evidenced by the new Twitter campaign just launched by @SBULibrary and featuring a book loving Wolfie. Join the fun by tweeting your own photo reading the book of your choice to @SBULibrary with

Posted in Books, Libraries, Library Outreach

Registration for 3rd Annual Scavenger Hunt now OPEN!

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It’s that time of year again – time for new students to don their thinking caps and race through the library for a chance to win prizes. For the third straight year, Stony Brook University Libraries will host their annual scavenger

Posted in Events, Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Outreach, Melville Library

First SBU Library Board Game Revealed

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As if you needed another great reason to love your library!To further prove that we are “More Than Just Books”, Stony Brook University Libraries have been spending the summer months crafting a line of library themed board games, based on

Posted in Library Outreach, Melville Library, New and Notable

Need the Wall Street Journal?

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Looking to access the Wall Street Journal but can’t find Factiva? Stony Brook University Libraries has just added The Wall Street Journal, a new ProQuest database for access full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 – present. In

Posted in Business, Economics, Electronic Resources, New and Notable, News Literacy

New Library Workshops

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Upcoming in Fall 2014 are a number of interesting and useful workshops taught by our friendly librarians and staff.  The workshops being offered include: Introduction to Endnote, Zotero Basics and “It’s On The Internet, It Must Be True”. See our

Posted in Information Literacy, Library Instruction, New and Notable

Information Table at Experience Stony Brook 2014

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Fall 2014 semester begins Monday August 25!  On Sunday, August 24th, Experience Stony Brook 2014 – The Campus Community Information Fair, will kick off the beginning of a new semester. Please stop by the SBU Libraries’ table where you will find

Posted in Library Instruction, Library Outreach, Melville Library

SOMAS Reports and Papers

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The Stony Brook University Libraries and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS) announced the online, re-issue in digital format of the school’s well established and respected, published research —  Special Reports and Working Papers series.   Both are

Posted in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

TALENT Grant Awards

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Kristen Nyitray, Head of Special Collections and University Archives, and Associate Professor Ray Guins of the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory have been awarded a $6,000 TLT TALENT Grant for their project “Digitization of Documents for the William A.

Posted in New and Notable, Technology

Dean Constantinou Keynotes at the 2nd International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management, Shanghai, China

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Constantia Constantinou, Dean of Stony Brook University Libraries, made a keynote speech titled “The future of research libraries: Challenge, collaboration, opportunity” at the 2nd International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology,

Posted in Global Initiatives

University Libraries Welcome Students from Gezhi High School, Shanghai, China

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Students from Gezhi High School visited Stony Brook University from August 11 to August 18, 2014. They were working on five research topics ranging from engineering science to social science. A small group of five students were working on a

Posted in Global Initiatives