Gisele Schierhorst, Head of the Music Library, and Christine Fena, Undergraduate Success Librarian, authored a discussion and analysis of the impact the Libraries’ ongoing concert series has had both on SBU music students and the larger SBU community. The chapter,…
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New ACRL Book Chapter Celebrates SBU Libraries’ Concert Series
Posted in About Us, Events, Libraries, Library Outreach, Melville Library, Music, Music Library Tagged with: library collaborations, library concerts, Melville Library, music library
Librarians and Writing Tutors Come Together to Help Students with their Research Papers
On the evenings of April 19 & April 20, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, SBU librarians and writing tutors offered drop-in Zoom consultations for students who needed extra support finishing their research papers. Over 120 students joined the…
Posted in About Us, Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Outreach, Research, Writing and Literature Tagged with: Research Help, student success
ChatGPT & Generative AI Forum Features Faculty, Staff & Student Voices
On March 8, 2023, University Libraries hosted ChatGPT & Generative AI: An SBU Forum. Dean Karim Boughida moderated a faculty, staff, & student panel with interest and expertise in large language models (LLM) and how they might intersect with higher…
Writing Tutors and Librarians Join Forces to Support Student Research Writing
On the evenings of November 16 and November 17, 2022, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, SBU librarians and writing tutors offered drop-in Zoom consultations with students who needed extra support on their research papers. Students delved more deeply into…
Posted in About Us, Library Instruction, Library Outreach, Writing and Literature Tagged with: Library events, library faculty, student success, writing and rhetoric, writing center, writing tutors
Library faculty team up with undergraduate student to promote open access
In the opening paragraph of his recent post to the Program in Writing and Rhetoric’s RhetComp blog, student Matt Hono explains a typical undergraduate experience of using databases to write a research paper: “Overwhelmed with the simple goal of finishing…
Librarians and Writing Tutors Come Together to Support Students
On the evenings of April 12 and April 13, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, SBU librarians and writing tutors offered drop-in Zoom consultations with students who wanted extra support on their research papers. Students delved more deeply into discovering…
Celebrating SBU Writing Students and the Art of the Personal Essay
On Wednesday, April 6, University Libraries was proud to host nine undergraduate students as they read aloud their personal essays in a virtual event. The event was the sixth installment of Dr. Rita Nezami’s Personal Essay Student Reading Series. The…
After Hours Writing & Research Help
On the evenings of November 17 and November 18, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, SBU librarians and writing tutors offered drop-in Zoom consultations with students who wanted extra support on their research papers. Students delved more deeply into discovering…
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A Celebration of SBU’s Writing Students and the Art of the Personal Essay
On Wednesday, November 17, University Libraries was proud to host ten undergraduate students as they read aloud their personal essays in a virtual event. The event was the fifth installment of Dr. Rita Nezami’s Personal Essay Student Reading Series, and…
Posted in Writing and Literature
Students and librarians come together to share ideas about Charles’ Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’
On Thursday, October 7, 2021, a small number of students and librarians gathered in the North Reading Room for a discussion of the One Book One Community book selection, Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown. The gathering was both an opportunity to…
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