Artist Salvador Dalí’s vibrant and surreal interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is on display in the newly renovated Central Reading Room, Melville Library. The works are part of a unique portfolio housed in Special Collections of the University Libraries. In 1969, Maecenas Press-Random House, as part of their
The winning name is Captain Jack Marrow! Thank you to all who participated in the skeleton naming contest at the Health Sciences Library. The raffle winner has been selected and will be announced later this week. Don’t forget, Captain Jack Marrow can be checked out from the Health Sciences
The Central Reading Room is now open. Furniture and technology placement will continue through the next month, so bear with us as we get the final details right! The new Central Reading Room currently features a flexible event space, reading nook, additional seating, increased outlets and wifi access points, and
Kanopy is an online streaming video service that provides a wide collection of films, documentaries, and foreign language videos in a variety of academic subjects. Subjects include the social sciences, the arts, education, business, health, global studies and languages, sciences, and more! It has an easy-to-use interface that allows users to browse
The new North and Central Reading Rooms at Stony Brook University Libraries were recently honored with an award from FLEXspace, an open access repository featuring images and data of learning spaces. FLEXspace and Herman Miller Education are sponsoring my travel and attendance to represent the library at the Designing Library
Some may claim that library workers aren’t known for their prowess on the open sea, but don’t tell Stony Brook University Libraries’ Daphne Trakis that. Daphne strapped on her sailor shoes Thursday, August 11th, and set off on the SoMAS (School of Atmospheric and Marine Science) Sunset Cruise of the Shinnecock
The University Libraries is pleased to announce its first lecture of the fall 2016 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Sotirios Mamalis, Department of Mechanical Engineering. His talk, “Internal Combustion Engine Research for Sustainable Transportation and Power Generation” will be given on Wednesday, September 14 from 1pm-2pm in the Special
The University Libraries proudly announces its exciting Fall 2016 Writers Series. Please register and join us for an hour of diverse, dynamic talks by our esteemed Stony Brook faculty. Tuesday, 9/27: Mary Jo Bona & Adrienne Munich (register here) Mary Jo Bona: “Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary” Adrienne
The Michael Dorman Collection, located in Special Collections of the University Libraries, is open for research. Journalist, reporter, and author Michael Dorman (1932-2008) was born in the Bronx, New York. He was a writer and editor at Newsday, a professor of journalism, and the author of more than a dozen books. When
The Academic Commons is an open access scholarly repository and publishing platform for the Stony Brook University community. Works in Academic Commons are: *freely accessible online *easily discoverable via search engines *regularly backed up *assigned a permanent URL so they can always be found What Academic Commons Means For You
