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Create Your Own Zen Garden Event

Posted on by Dana Haugh

Wednesday, November 16th, SBU Libraries invited the students to “take a moment” and create their own personal Zen Garden. Using the libraries’s promotional Frisbee, sand, “special” rocks which were collected by 5 year old Riley at local West Meadow Beach,…

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Posted in Events, Get Your Read On, Libraries, Library Outreach, Melville Library, Stony Brook University

SBU Southampton Library Displays Women’s Poetry Collection

Posted on by Chris Kretz

The Southampton Library recently added a number of chapbooks of women’s poetry to its collection. Titles include The Mask of Medusa (1987) by Sheryl St. Germain, Rising (1980) by Canadian poet Gert Beadle, Returning What We Owed (1980) by Carolyne…

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Posted in Southampton, Writing and Literature

Conservationist and Author Carl Safina Captivates at Writers Series

Posted on by Kristen Nyitray

In his spirited presentation and book of the same title “Beyond Words: How Elephants, Wolves, and Killer Whales Think and Feel,” Carl Safina shared how he spent time working with researchers who have dedicated decades to studying particular families of wild…

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Posted in Anthropology, Author Series, Biology, Communicating Science, Ecology and Evolution, Events, Journalism, Library Outreach, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Special Collections & University Archives, Sustainability

SBU Libraries & Counseling and Psychological Services Presents: “PALS”

Posted on by Dana Haugh

On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, SBU Libraries & CAPS, Counseling and Psychological Services, held a popular event, Pet Away Life Stress! (PALS) through animal assisted interactions. Beau, a border collie mix, Sophie, a golden retriever, and Lucy, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel came to…

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Posted in Events, Library Outreach, Melville Library, Stony Brook University

Tech Spotlight: Duolingo Bots

Posted on by Laura Costello

Duolingo, the language learning site, has recently come out with a new feature that pairs chat bots with learners who want a native speaker experience without the scheduling and cost. The feature lets learners chat with bot characters drawn from…

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Posted in Emerging Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved

Posted on by Darren Chase

Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting an open and accessible internet that is enriched with free knowledge and creative resources for people around the world to use, share, and cultivate. Creative Commons provides free tools that…

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Posted in Health Sciences Library, Scholarly Communication, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Writer’s Spotlight: Lia Purpura

Posted on by William Blydenburgh

November 16, 2016 Author Lia Purpura will be the fourth guest in the fall Writers Speak Wednesdays series of free talks and readings open to the public at Stony Brook Southampton. Purpura will read from and talk about her work on Wednesday, November 16, at…

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Posted in Southampton

SBU Libraries Celebrates Native American Heritage Month

Posted on by Dana Haugh

On November 2, 2016 the University Libraries hosted a display and educational exhibit as part of the First Native American Heritage Awareness Program Series.  Five tables were set up on that beautiful fall day just outside the Melville Library.  Jay…

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Posted in Events, Library Outreach, Melville Library, Stony Brook University

Tech Spotlight: Sensay

Posted on by Laura Costello

Sensay is a platform that helps connect people with questions to people with answers across many fields. Instead of letting bots answer questions, Sensay puts AI to work to decode users’ natural language queries and connect them automatically to a…

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Posted in Emerging Technology, Mobile Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Digital Humanities Open Mic Event, October 31st

Posted on by Kate Kasten-Mutkus

Yesterday afternoon faculty and students gathered in the Center for Scholarly Communications at Melville Library to discuss the digital humanities and to explore new possibilities for research.  Emphasizing practices and tools, scholars presented projects which used technology to reveal new…

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Posted in Arts & Humanities, Digital Humanities