Jeopardy Labs is a website where users can create and customize their own jeopardy game templates for free. Instructors can use this tool to create jeopardy-style games for reviewing material with students during classes, which may be helpful before a test. They can have students play in teams and record the scores using the scorekeeping function located
Stony Brook Ultimate Frisbee team and SBU libraries staff met for some fun activities during campus lifetime at the Staller steps. The team set up and demonstrated games of Kan Jam and Spikeball. It was a great opportunity for the team to show off their amazing skills! SBU Libraries’ staff
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed charges against the online publisher of science journals, OMICS Group, Inc. For details on how to evaluate and identify predatory publishers and journals, see the Center for Scholarly Communication page ‘How Do You Know A Journal
The University Libraries is pleased to announce its second lecture of the fall 2016 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Joshua Rest, Department of Ecology and Evolution. His talk, “Survival and evolution in a changing world: lessons from genomes, transcripts, and proteins” will be given on Wednesday, October 5 from
Visit the Central Reading Room to view “Stony Brook on the Map,” a selection of rare atlases and maps from the University Archives and Special Collections that illustrate the growth and development of Stony Brook University and the Long Island region. Maps and Atlases Beers, F. W. Atlas of Long Island,
I’m currently attending the Designing Libraries Conference at the University of Calgary. I’m visiting lots of beautiful libraries and hearing about planning, designing, and promoting new and renovated libraries! The University of Calgary has some beautiful new buildings, so it’s been a real treat to explore them: Follow my detailed
SBU professors Mary Jo Bona and Adrienne Munich will speak at University Libraries Presents: Writers Series on Tuesday, 9/27. Please register and join us for an hour of diverse, dynamic talks by our esteemed faculty. Date: Tuesday, September 27 from 1 to 2pm, Special Collections Seminar Room (E-2340, Melville Library).
The inaugural lecture in the SBU Libraries STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Sotirios Mamalis, Department of Mechanical Engineering was held on Wednesday, September 14 in the Special Collections Seminar room, second floor of the Melville Library. An audience of 37, including students, faculty, staff, and the local community, attended
Stony Brook University Libraries presents two new digital projects to start the 2016 Fall semester. Women in US-Asian Relations: Oral History Project and the Senator Jacob K. Javits Digital Collection are two collections coming from different Stony Brook University (SBU) sources that were digitized and recently made accessible through two different
Writing a paper on some aspect of Asia and can’t find relevant research for your topic? If so, the Bibliography of Asian Studies might be the resource you need to get your research back on track. With an index of over 850,000 journal articles and books on all subjects pertaining to
