Members of Stony Brook Libraries’ Access Services recently made the trip out east to Southampton as the Melville Library and the Southampton Library continue to make major strides in providing a continuity of service to all Stony Brook students. The Access Services representatives, Jennifer DeVito, Diane Englot, Giulieta Stoianov and
Yesterday, May 11, 2016, SBU Libraries worked with CAPS, SBU Counseling and Psychological Services to present an assisted animal event. CAPS is excited to introduce the PALS Program: Pet Away Life Stress! Through Animal Assisted interactions, the PALS program offers an opportunity for stress reduction for our student community. Animal
Michael Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives and Health Sciences Librarian, presented “The evolving role of academic health sciences libraries and librarians” at the Capital Medical University Library, Beijing, China, on Wednesday, April 20, 2016.
Michael Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives and Health Sciences Librarian, was invited to present “The evolving role of academic libraries and librarians in the United States” at the Shanghai Normal University Library, Shanghai, China, on Monday, April 18, 2016.
In an effort to provide extended services to a budding enrollment, the Stony Brook Southampton Library has, and will continue to make major changes to their services and online resources. The changes started late in April when the Southampton branch extended its hours to be able to provide a more
Students in an online course at Georgia Institute of Technology got a surprise recently when they were told that one of their TAs wasn’t quite human. Jill Watson, so named because she was built on IBM’s Watson analytics system, answered questions convincingly enough that most students were unaware they were
Renovation of the computer lab and classrooms in the HSL has been completed and they are open for use! The renovations include adding 50 percent more capacity in the two classrooms and lab! Retractable wall between Classroom 1 and 2 gives a possible capacity of 116 students, lab can test
In a previous post, we presented Altmetric as an innovative method of displaying research impact on the social media by tracing mentions on Facebook, twitter, blogs and downloads. Now, Altmetric is used to measure the impact of more than 8000 academic journals and Altmetric has been recently expanding their scholarly horizon.
Melville Library (Central Reading Room) is now open 24/7 for finals, through May 18, 2016. May 1 – 17: 24 hours May 18: Closes at 5:00PM Best of luck on your finals!
On Tuesday, May 3, Stony Brook University Libraries presented University Libraries Writers Series: A Conversation with Naomi Wolf to an engaged audience of scholars, students, and community members. Sharing her research for her upcoming book, Outrages, best selling author Dr. Naomi Wolf explained the fascinating history behind the rise of
