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SBU Libraries Student Staff Appreciation Luncheon and Award Ceremony

Wednesday, April 24th was the 10th Annual Student Staff Appreciation Pizza Party. Our student employees make it possible to keep the SBU Libraries up and running. We wouldn’t be able to do it without them! The University Libraries Distinguished Student

Posted in Events

Ultimate Frisbee and SBU Libraries “hangout” at Staller steps

Come join Stony Brook’s Ultimate Frisbee team and SBU Libraries for some fun activities on May 1st during campus lifetime on the Staller steps! Kan Jam will be set up as well as a game of fricket. The library will

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Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture 2013

On Monday April 22 at 4 PM at Laufer Center Lecture Hall 1 (near Life Sciences Building), the Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture will be presented by the 8th Prelec Visiting Scholar, Nancy Roderer, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Former Director of the

Posted in Health Sciences Library, Medicine

Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference under way

The Association for Asian American Studies is having its annual conference in Seattle April 17- 20, 2013.  The theme of the conference is “The afterlives of empire.”  See conference program for full list of plenary speakers and sessions. For library

Posted in Asian and Asian American Studies

April contests, activities in the Central Reading Room

This month the Central Reading Room is providing patrons with fun distractions and a chance at prizes, just for using our services.

Posted in Central Reading Room, Libraries, Library Outreach, Melville Library, New and Notable, Reference, Research

New for Sustainability Studies: Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability

Available now online, the 10 volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability. This interdisciplinary publication draws from the natural, physical, and social sciences – geophysics, engineering, and resource management, to name a few – and from philosophy and religion. The result is

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Michael Huang Presents at Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Michael Huang, Librarian of the Health Sciences Library, presented “Open access to research literature in the humanities and social sciences” at the College of Foreign Languages of Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, on April 24, 2013.

Posted in Global Initiatives

Michael Huang Presents at Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Health Sciences Librarian Michael Huang presented “The future of academic libraries and academic librarians” at the Capital Medical University Library, Beijing, China, on April 24, 2013.

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DATABASE TRIAL: ClinicalKey

ClinicalKey delivers all of Elsevier’s medical and surgical content in one dynamic resource, delivering access to over 900 books, over 500 journals, thousands of videos, and millions of images. This is an enhanced version of MD Consult with a proprietary

Posted in Database Trials, Health Sciences Library

BrowZine Trial for iPad Now Available

BrowZine – Free Trial. Read complete scholarly journals in a format that is optimized for tablet devices. Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals and then be alerted when new issues are published. This trial does not include all of the

Posted in Health Sciences Library