Once again, Stony Brook’s PALS program helped Southampton students relieve some end-of-semester stress with a fun visit from our canine friends. Many thanks to Counseling and Psychological Services as well as Southampton’s Student Life office for helping arrange this!
We’re asking students to recommend books from our collection, books that inspire and provoke and amuse. First up is our astute library assistant and MFA student, Sarah Stoss. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. In a blend of science fiction, psychological realism, and poetic
Once again the library is proud to display the projects from the Occupational Therapy program’s 2017 Kinesiology Fair. Constructed by first-year OT students, these inventive and eye-catching devices transform the space into an anatomy lesson crossed with a maker fair. You’ll get a new appreciation for the complexity of the
We’re happy to be a part of Library Journal‘s piece “Not So Trivial Pursuit” in their Reference 2018 supplement. Under the heading “Bolstering fun competitions with reference skills,” associate editor Mahnaz Dar compiles a number of examples of libraries who have engaged their communities with trivia challenges.
We’ve installed a new tabletop display in the Southampton campus library, highlighting just some of the things you can do with 3D printing. The technology is truly amazing, having made tremendous strides in the last decade to the point where you see it being applied in a myriad of fields.
Join us Tuesday, October 10th for the final Art in Focus lecture of the fall at Southampton. Katy Siegel, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art, Stony Brook University will be speaking about her experience at this year’s Venice Biennale. Siegel is
Many thanks to Arielle Hessler of the SBU Libraries Preservation Department for her workshop on How to Make a Chapbook held at the Southampton campus library on September 27th. Chapbooks are the literary DIY project of choice and the results, following Arielle’s detailed instructions, can be exquisite. Judging from the
If you ever get a chance to see Charles Riley speak, take it. The author of Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism captivated the audience at the SBU Southampton Library’s second Art in Focus lecture on September 26th. His fast-paced and wide-ranging talk captured the cultural and literary
SBU Libraries’ Preservation Department will be out in Southampton on Wednesday, September 27th, teaching students how to assemble their own chapbooks. Chapbooks are handmade, bound collections of writings. They have a storied history, having served as conveyors of everything from murder ballads to folk tales to political tracts. So come
The Art in Focus Lecture Series returns on September 26th with Charles A. Riley II, director of the Nassau County Museum of Art, discussing the creative and social ferment of 1920s Paris. Drawing on his 2017 book, Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism, Riley will
