The Stony Brook University Libraries currently has a trial subscription to the Henry Stewart Talks, biomedical and life sciences collection. This collection has over 1,500 high quality, recorded seminars given by leading world experts. Featured categories include: cancer, cell biology, diseases, drug discoveries and genetics. Please preview Henry Stewart Talks
SBU Libraries will hold a workshop for liaison librarians on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at the Wang Center. There will be a presentation by Tracy Gabridge, who is the Associate Director for Research and Instructional Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries. During the MIT Libraries reorganization from
University Libraries is working on a strategic design that will inform our priorities for the next three years. On Monday, June 15, 2015, we held an all-staff retreat at the Health Sciences Center. Along with good food and camaraderie, we learned about each other’s work, communicated our shared values, and
Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives and Health Sciences Librarian Michael Bailou Huang presented “Changing Roles of Academic Libraries and Librarians” and “Collection Development for the 21st Century Academic Library: Experience from the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library” at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Zhejiang College
Michael Bailou Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives at the Stony Brook University Libraries visited Shandong University in Jinan, China on April 22, 2015. Dr. Jianfeng Li, Director of Shandong University Library and Ms. Jinxian Yang, Associate Director of the Library met with Michael and had a
You are all invited to the second lecture in the Lecture Series of the Office of Global Library Initiatives entitled “Ancient Documents Services at the Shanghai Normal University Library.” The talk will be given by Dr. Long Zhao, who is a visiting scholar at Stony Brook University Libraries. It will
Michael Bailou Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives presented “Changing Roles of Academic Libraries and Librarians” and “Collection Development for the 21st Century Academic Library: Experience from the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library” at Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China, on Monday, April 27, 2015.
From June 5-7, graduates of the Class of 1965 will visit campus in celebration of their 50th class reunion. Special Collections and University Archives will host an open house on Saturday, June 6 for the alums, featuring an exhibit of photographs, newspapers, yearbooks, and artifacts that document the early history of
Mark Twain is credited with observing, “everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” At Stony Brook University Libraries, that is simply not the case. For our researchers, climate data is available from many resources. For instance, data from NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is
45 years ago, in June of 1970, the transformation of the Melville Library was underway. The original building opened in 1964 with seating for 700 students. The design was modular; the intent was to increase the footprint of the building to keep pace with the university’s rapidly expanding programs and growing
