The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science asks “What is Sleep?” Some Stony Brook University students seem to be already doing some head nodding experimentation in the library. If it’s your dream to take on this challenge, though, Stony Brook…
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Dissertations and Theses Full-Text
Dissertations and Theses-Full Text Contains 1.2 million full-text dissertations, including most dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Includes 2.7 million citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to…
Dental Instruments Exhibit Opens at Health Sciences Library
Dental Instruments — Past and Present, an exhibit of early dental tools and practices, officially opened December 1st at 11 am. A reception was held in the entrance to the Health Sciences Library where the exhibit is located. Objects in…
Posted in Health Sciences Library
Google Expectations and Interlibrary Loan
An article by librarians Colleen Kenefick and Jennifer DeVito titled “Google Expectations and Interlibrary Loan: Can We Ever Be Fast Enough?” has been featured in a special virtual issue on best practices in interlibrary loan in the Journal of Interlibrary…
Posted in Interlibrary Loan
Dental Instruments — Past and Present
Travel back in time to see instruments used by dentists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Objects from the personal collection of the late R. Sherman Mills, MD, the Baer Collection from the Stony Brook University School of Dental…
Posted in Health Sciences Library
Welcome Shafeek Fazal!
On October 28, Stony Brook University Libraries welcomed Shafeek Fazal, who has joined us as the Associate Director for Library Technology, Discovery and Digital Services. Shafeek comes to SBU from SUNY Maritime, where he had been the Library Director of…
Posted in Technology
Welcome Bob Tolliver!
Stony Brook University Libraries extend a warm welcome to Bob Tolliver, who joined our team as the Head of Science and Engineering Library on October 6. Bob recently served 5 years as the Earth Sciences Librarian in the Earth & Mineral…
Posted in About Us, Science and Engineering Library
A Cornucopia of Resources on America’s Bounty
Food in American culture may be on our minds this Thanksgiving, as we sit down to festive meals with family and friends. For those with an interest in learning more on the topic, Stony Brook University Libraries have a bounty…
Posted in Research
Colleen Kenefick Visits the John Radcliffe Hospital Cairns Library, University of Oxford
On Friday, November 21, 2014, I (Colleen Kenefick, Health Sciences Librarian) spent the day at the John Radcliffe Hospital Cairns Library. This visit was very graciously coordinated in advance between Dr. Hagan Bayley (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford Chemistry…
Posted in Global Initiatives, Health Sciences Library
Funny You Should Ask…
Sometimes you are looking for unusual content in a database and don’t know where to start your research. Political cartoons can be one of those questions. Stony Brook University Libraries are here to help! To search for political cartoons, a…
Posted in Databases
