A Japanese documentary on the Shoreham Nuclear Plant featuring rare government documents held by Stony Brook University Libraries, including the Emergency Evacuation Plan for the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, will be broadcast on July 24 on Tokyo’s channel 4. The program, “NNN…
Is it a learning technology? Is it a major tech event? Is Stony Brook all about it right now? This week, Niantic Labs (of Ingress fame) and the Pokémon Company released Pokémon Go, a location-based augmented reality iteration of the…
Libraries, especially academic libraries, are known for being quiet spaces where students can find their favorite study spot and curl up with their assigned reading. The occasional outburst greeted with a stern warning from the Student Assistant covering the front…
SHERPA is a scholarly communication partnership based at the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham. SHERPA offers a number of web services, including JULIET and RoMEO. JULIET JULIET is a search tool for discovering research funders’ mandates for public access and…
Michael Huang, Librarian, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives, presented “Transformation of academic libraries in China: Challenges, opportunities, and best practices” at the American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, Florida, June 23-28, 2016.
Amazon Inspire is a search engine for open educational resources aimed at K-12 teachers. Much like Amazon’s other functions, the power of Inspire is in the review infrastructure. Teachers will be able to rank and review educational resources through the…
