Yearly Archives: 2021

Paul Offit Announced as the 2021 Antonija Prelec Visiting Scholar

Registration is now open! Dr. Offit’s lecture, You Bet Your Life: The Long, Risky History of Medical Innovation, is open to all and will be held in the Wang Center Theater 20th September 2021 3:00-4:00pm with a live stream available.

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New Health Disparities Research Guide

Guest post by Health Sciences Library Intern Sunny Chung The Health Disparities research guide provides links to healthcare information and resources that can help to reduce health disparities and provide more equitable health care. It contains information about which groups

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Michael B. Huang Recognized for His Role in International Librarianship

Michael B. Huang, SUNY Distinguished Librarian and Director of Global Library Iniaitives at Stony Brook University has recently been recognized by two major library organizations for his role in promoting international librarianship. Mr. Huang has been elected to serve as

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University Libraries celebrates Juneteenth

University Libraries is proud to support Juneteenth with all our Seawolves! In honor of this important celebration, we have selected some favorite titles from our collection, now on display in the Central Reading Room and ready to check out! Stop

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Love Who You Love: The University Libraries celebrates Pride Month

Commemorating the anniversary of the riots that followed a police raid on The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, Pride Month has grown over the last 50 years to become an international month-long celebration raising awareness and showing

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University Libraries honors graduating student employees (May 2021)

Student employees are an important part of the University Libraries’ staff. They are an integral part of our services, from working at the service desks and in preservation, to photographing our events and adding content to our social media, we

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First-year students use databases to explore the history of technology

This semester, Science and Society 102.23 first-year seminar students practiced using a variety of databases and digital collections to explore questions related to new technologies. One project was to delve into the past and investigate how society reacted to emerging

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Libraries Social Media Interns Wrap Up

Our social media interns for the spring of 2021 are wrapping up their time with the Libraries so we thought we’d invite them to share some final thoughts about the semester. Each is showing us a picture of where they

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Stony Brook University Anti-Racism Task Force’s Digital Project

Participate in Our Digital Project The anti-racism task force, along with student workers and personnel from Stony Brook University Libraries and the Africana Studies department are documenting racial encounters, experiences, and feelings about racial injustice that members of the SBU

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Poetry Reading in honor of National Poetry Month

On April 6, 2021, the University Libraries held a virtual poetry reading in honor of National Poetry Month. Hosted by Lisa Socci, Head of Public Services, participants were invited to read poems they wrote or ones that were meaningful to

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