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Reserve requests for Fall 2015

If you would like to put material on reserve for the Fall 2015 semester, please complete the Reserves request forms or contact us at reserves@stonybrook.edu.  You can find information about reserves policies and copyright restrictions on our site. Please get your

Posted in About Us

Facilities and Nights & Weekends Open House 7/28/2015

Library Night/Weekend Facilities and Operations team Open House introduced our staff members and what their duties are through a power point presentation.  We also expressed and explained how do we keep the Libraries safe, comfortable and attractive to our users

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Reminder: Native American Historical Re-enactment

On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Jay Levenson, an Access Services clerk in the Stony Brook University Libraries, will be sharing his knowledge of native culture with the students in ANT 203: Native Peoples of North America taught by Madeline Cherney.

Posted in Circulation, Interlibrary Loan

Preservation Open House 7/27/2015

On Monday, July 27th at 10AM, members of the University Libraries’ Preservation Department hosted a departmental open house for library colleagues and interested parties.  The open house was the first of a series of planned departmental open houses designed to

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ICD-10 is coming soon…

The ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10) coding classifications are scheduled to be implemented on Oct.1. The Library has purchased access to both the ICD 9 and ICD 10 . Both classification systems are available from the STAT!Ref database.

Posted in Health Sciences Library

Michael Bailou Huang Presents at Shandong University, Jinan, China

Michael Bailou Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives at the Stony Brook University Libraries visited Shandong University in Jinan, China on April 22, 2015. Dr. Jianfeng Li, Director of Shandong University Library and Ms. Jinxian Yang, Associate

Posted in Global Initiatives

Global Library Initiatives Lecture Series

You are all invited to the second lecture in the Lecture Series of the Office of Global Library Initiatives entitled “Ancient Documents Services at the Shanghai Normal University Library.” The talk will be given by Dr. Long Zhao, who is

Posted in Global Initiatives, Health Sciences Library

Michael Bailou Huang Presents at Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China

Michael Bailou Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives presented “Changing Roles of Academic Libraries and Librarians” and “Collection Development for the 21st Century Academic Library: Experience from the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library” at Guangxi University of

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Weather Got You Down? SBU Libraries Can Help!

Mark Twain is credited with observing, “everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” At Stony Brook University Libraries, that is simply not the case. For our researchers, climate data is available from many resources. For instance,

Posted in Government Information, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, MASIC

Discover SBU Open Access

Many Stony Brook University researchers are publishing in quality, high-impact, peer-reviewed open access journals. See the research databases and OA collections below to discover open access research by Stony Brook University authors: Biomed Central including Chemistry Central and SpringerOpen (260+

Posted in Open Access, Scholarly Communication