Monthly Archives: July 2015

Facilities and Nights & Weekends Open House 7/28/2015

Library Night/Weekend Facilities and Operations team Open House introduced our staff members and what their duties are through a power point presentation.  We also expressed and explained how do we keep the Libraries safe, comfortable and attractive to our users

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Special Collections receives Priority Projects Grant

Letter, George Clinton to Thomas Jefferson, 1793

Special Collections is the recipient of a $20,000 Priority Projects Grant to support acquisitions and for the curatorial care of collections at Stony Brook University Libraries. The funding was granted by the Honorable Steven Englebright, 4th Assembly District, Suffolk County. With past funding,

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Reminder: Native American Historical Re-enactment

On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Jay Levenson, an Access Services clerk in the Stony Brook University Libraries, will be sharing his knowledge of native culture with the students in ANT 203: Native Peoples of North America taught by Madeline Cherney.

Posted in Circulation, Interlibrary Loan

Preservation Open House 7/27/2015

On Monday, July 27th at 10AM, members of the University Libraries’ Preservation Department hosted a departmental open house for library colleagues and interested parties.  The open house was the first of a series of planned departmental open houses designed to

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ICD-10 is coming soon…

The ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10) coding classifications are scheduled to be implemented on Oct.1. The Library has purchased access to both the ICD 9 and ICD 10 . Both classification systems are available from the STAT!Ref database.

Posted in Health Sciences Library

“Five Realities of Hospital Library Mergers” – article by Library faculty

An article titled “Five Realities of Hospital Library Mergers” by Colleen Kenefick, Librarian Emeritus, and Jennifer A. DeVito, Assistant Librarian, Stony Brook University Libraries, was published July 15, 2015 in the Journal of Hospital Librarianship 15(3).

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Follow Special Collections on Instagram

Stony Brook crew, 1962, rowing in Port Jefferson Harbor

Learn about the university’s one-of-kind library collections and university history on Special Collections and University Archives’ new Instagram account. Pictured here are crew team members in 1962, rowing in Port Jefferson Harbor. Crew was founded in 1960 at the State University College on

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Presentation to School of Dental Medicine Administrators

Library Dean, Constantia Constantinou and Head of Health Sciences Library, Ann Gleason gave a presentation to the School of Dental Medicine Administrators at their meeting on July 16, 2015. Dean Constantinou presented the Library’s strategic plan and future directions, and

Posted in About Us, Health Sciences Library, Library Outreach, Services

Displays in the Music Library

Come see the new musical instrument display just inside the entrance of the Music Library, W-1530. Featured are various percussion and wind instruments from different parts of the world.  From the collection of Celeste Hessler, assistant head of the Music

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This Just In!- News Resources for Journalism Students

This week, the Melville Library welcomes the participants of the 2015 Greene Team, a School of Journalism “boot camp” for high school  journalists. For these budding journalists and for more  seasoned Stony Brook journalism students, SBU Libraries  is the place

Posted in Databases, Journalism, Melville Library, Research