Monthly Archives: March 2017

Tech Spotlight: Jeopardy Labs

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

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

Digital Theatre+: Theatre Arts Database Trial

Digital Theatre+ is a Theatre Arts database featuring streaming video of full length British theatre productions, interviews with cast and crew, and documentaries about practice, production and workshops.  It includes productions from Shakespeare to contemporary plays, with teaching guides, essays,

Posted in Database Trials, Theatre

University Libraries Presents: STEM Speaker Series, Dr. Dan Davis

The University Libraries is pleased to announce its first lecture of the spring 2017 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Dan Davis, Chair of Department of Geosciences. His talk, “Mapping the Geology of Long Island Through Time at and Below

Posted in About Us, Geosciences, Maps

Community Tea

Thanks to everyone who came out to the community tea yesterday at SBU Southampton library. Students from all of the Southampton programs along with faculty members got to mingle, converse, and sample a fine variety of teas. As an added

Posted in About Us, Southampton

Memento Mori: The Richard F. Welch Collection

Learn about the history and artistry of early Long Island gravestones (1680-1801) through the Richard F. Welch Collection. Comprised of hundreds of photographs, negatives, and research notes, the collection documents gravestones, stone carvers, symbols, cemeteries, and people that lived from

Posted in Anthropology, Art, Arts & Humanities, Books, History, Manuscripts, Research, Social Sciences, Special Collections & University Archives, Spotlight

SBU Libraries hosts a Women’s History Month STEM panel

To wrap up the Women’s History Month celebrations at Stony Brook University Libraries, a panel discussion was hosted yesterday to highlight the past, present and future of women in the STEM fields.  Our panelists including members of the SBU community

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

North Reading Room 1st Floor – Delayed Opening

  March 29th 2017 – Modified hours *The first floor of the North Reading Room will open at 11:45am today.*     Please be advised that all study room reservations for the 1st floor of North Reading Room will begin at 11:45am.

Posted in About Us

OER: Open Educational Resources

OER are Open Educational Resources.  Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, textbooks, syllabi, lectures,

Posted in Open Access, Scholarly Communication

Tech Spotlight: Purdue OWL

Purdue Online Writing Lab, or “OWL” for short, is an online writing resource and instructional guide for students who wish to improve their writing techniques. Purdue OWL offers help in writing for essays, citations, Job search writing, English as a

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

Take the Hemingway challenge, he dared.

A story in six words, that’s what they say Ernest Hemingway wrote. Taken as a challenge, he came up with the tragic: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Since then countless others have worked to pack just the right combination

Posted in Libraries, Southampton, Writing and Literature