2016

Mary Carleton on Marriage at University Libraries Present: Women’s History Month Colloquium Series

On March 30th, Dr. Kristina Lucenko presented her work on Mary Carleton as a commentator on marriage in seventeenth-century England, “I’m ‘Wife’!  Stop there”: Mary Carleton’s “Uncivil” Union.  Director of the Program in Writing & Rhetoric at Stony Brook University, Dr. Lucenko is the author of numerous essays, reviews, translations,

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Tech Spotlight: American Film Scripts Online

American Film Scripts Online contains over 1,009 scripts by 1,062 authors. Many of these scripts show the facsimile images of the original scripts that allow users to view notes and directions from the scene. The scripts are also indexed to allow for subject-based studies across a range of films and

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SBU Libraries Present #StudentStaffSpotlight

Student staff make up an essential part of the SBU Libraries community. Working on the ‘front lines’ of the library, they are often responsible for assisting patrons, providing circulation services, and much more. In order to highlight these contributions to the library, SBU Libraries is proud to present #StudentStaffSpotlight, a

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Women’s History Month Colloquium Series: Dr. Kristina Lucenko

Please join us this afternoon at 1:00 in the Center for Scholarly Communication (2nd floor of the Central Reading Room in Melville Library) for the final event in the University Libraries Present: Women’s History Month Colloquium Series. Wednesday, March 30, 1:00: Dr. Kristina Lucenko “I’m ‘Wife’! Stop there!”: Mary Carleton’s

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“Edith the Welder”: Papers of Edith Gentile

Special Collections announces the opening of the Edith Gentile Collection. One of the first female stainless steel welders to work for Republic Aviation Corporation in Farmingdale, New York, Ida Gentile (known as Edith) was born in 1924 to Italian immigrant parents and was a lifelong resident of Long Island. A

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ACH 102 Students Transcribe Rare Document

Students in professor Kristina Lucenko’s ACH 102 course visited Special Collections and transcribed an original letter dated September 24, 1805. Written by Isaiah Thomas in Boston, MA, he requests that his “esteemed friend” facilitate payment for bibles that he produced and sold. Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) was a celebrated printer and

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Tech Spotlight: Gather Content

Gather Content is a publishing platform for non-traditional writing like website content, blog posts, help content, and product information. The platform brings the ethos of peer review to many other content types to help businesses ensure that the content they publish from every branch of their company is appropriate, legally

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