Beginning Friday, May 4, the public reading rooms of the Main Library will be open as late as 4 AM on some nights. Security guards will be checking University IDs to ensure public safety. For complete schedule, click here. If you have any questions, please call 631-632-7110 or email us.
Celebrate Asian Heritage Month at the Charles B. Wang Center. There’s a full lineup of events all month. Check out the hereandnow theatre company, performing April 12, 2012, 7 PM.
This Collection was launched in 2008 and features the archives of Carlos Bulosan, Betty Lee Sung, and Asian Adoptee Archive, among many others. The Asian American Studies librarian is Reme Grefalda, regr@loc.gov, 202-707-6096. http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/aapi/index.html
Publisher of scholarly journals Elsevier is being boycotted by thousands of researchers who oppose Elsevier’s skyrocketing prices and support of ending open access publishing initiatives. As reported in science and technology blog the Singularity Hub, Researchers from around the world are banding together in boycotting Elsevier in an effort to
Celebrate Stony Brook University Earthstock 2012, April 16 – 20. Visit the University Libraries information table on the University Mall, Friday, April 20, for recommend resources, tips and tools for environmental research. Also, Sustainability Studies librarian Darren Chase will present “Green Research: The Top Library Resources for Sustainability and Environmental
Health Sciences Librarian Michael Huang was appointed Secretariat General and Member of the Organizing Committee at the International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology jointly organized by Tongji University and the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA), April 25-27, 2012, Tongji University,
Good news for researchers from JSTOR this week: On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Call number and location: PG3326 .P7 C6 1998 | Melville Library Main Stacks eText: Crime and Punishment, provided by Project Gutenberg Possible Paper Topics: Despite his crime, does the author intend Roskolnikov to be viewed as a villain? Defend or dispute Rosholnikov’s theory of
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Call number and location: PS3515.E37 F338 1987 | Melville Library Main Stacks Possible Paper Topics: How does the author portray the idea of masculinity, and how does the novel’s final line enforce or conflict with this idea? Compare/contrast the reasons the main characters
The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Call number and location: PR2807 .A2 U59 2005 | Melville Library Main Stacks eText: The Tragedie of Hamlet, provided by Project Gutenberg Possible Paper Topics Explore the various angles that Hamlet views the concept of death, from revenge to suicide. What do you
