Alda Center Improvisation Workshop (3-hour session) This unique improvisation based workshop was pioneered by science advocate, Alan Alda. Library liaisons will take part in improvisational theater exercises aimed at helping them connect more directly and spontaneously with different audiences. This is not about turning participants into actors or comedians, but
This April marks the 20th anniversary of National Poetry Month. Available for research use in Special Collections are the archives of prominent poets, including William Butler Yeats, John Ciardi, Allen Ginsberg, and Jorge Carrera Andrade. Acclaimed poets Kofi Awanoor, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Allen Ginsberg read their poetry at Stony Brook University
Please join SBU Libraries on Tuesday May 3, at 2pm (new date and time), for the final event of the University Libraries Writers Series: A Conversation with Naomi Wolf in the Special Collections Seminar Room (E-2340, Melville Library). Dr. Naomi Wolf is author of eight New York Times nonfiction bestsellers and
Stony Brook University Libraries will be holding its popular Buy a Bag of Books Sale on Tuesday, April 26th, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Purchase a bag for $2 and fill it with books from the Book Sale shelves. What a bargain! We have books of all types: fiction, art, history,
Rafter is a suite of tools aimed at lowering textbook costs by targeting each particular part of the textbook lifecycle from faculty adoption to bookstore buyback. Rafter offers data to help faculty members choose sustainable textbooks, offers a competitive rental and buyback program to students, and helps bookstores connect to
Comic books from Special Collections are featured in three of the Melville Library’s first floor display cases. Case one highlights the July 1976, issue #158 of The Amazing Spider-Man – “Hammerhead is Out”! Set at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Spiderman finds himself in a battle with Doctor Octopus and the Ghost
A nonprofit entity, The Society for Scholarly Publishing was established in 1978 to foster academic publishing and help build community. The Society strives to bring together publishing professionals, researchers and librarians to network, share information and communicate the latest developments in the publishing industry. In keeping with SSP’s commitment to advance
Two workshops are being offered to introduce the primary molecular databases, PDB & MMDB, and will demonstrate the NCBI’s Cn3D software tool for viewing and manipulating structures. One of the fastest growing areas of study in biology focuses on the molecular structures of molecules, especially proteins, and how structure relates to
The SBU Libraries are conducting a trial of Historic Map Works (ProQuest) until April 8, 2016. Give it a try, and let us know what you think! Please send comments to kathleen.kasten@stonybrook.edu. Historic Map Works offers over 1,593,454 searchable, full-color, digitized maps, with content from the 15th-20th centuries. This collection
On Wednesday, March 30th, SBU Libraries offered a special event for students to stop and take a break for a few minutes from their studies. Using the libraries’ promotional “Get Your Read ON!” Frisbees, a cup or so of beach sand, some rocks and driftwood gathered at Long Island’s North
