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Information Table at Experience Stony Brook 2014

Fall 2014 semester begins Monday August 25!  On Sunday, August 24th, Experience Stony Brook 2014 – The Campus Community Information Fair, will kick off the beginning of a new semester. Please stop by the SBU Libraries’ table where you will find

Posted in Library Instruction, Library Outreach, Melville Library

SOMAS Reports and Papers

The Stony Brook University Libraries and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS) announced the online, re-issue in digital format of the school’s well established and respected, published research —  Special Reports and Working Papers series.   Both are

Posted in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences

Dean Constantinou Keynotes at the 2nd International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management, Shanghai, China

Constantia Constantinou, Dean of Stony Brook University Libraries, made a keynote speech titled “The future of research libraries: Challenge, collaboration, opportunity” at the 2nd International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology,

Posted in Global Initiatives

University Libraries Welcome Students from Gezhi High School, Shanghai, China

Students from Gezhi High School visited Stony Brook University from August 11 to August 18, 2014. They were working on five research topics ranging from engineering science to social science. A small group of five students were working on a

Posted in Global Initiatives

University Libraries Welcome Students From Gezhi High School, Shanghai, China

Students from Gezhi High School are visiting Stony Brook University from August 11- 18. They are working on 5 research topics ranging from engineering science to social science. A small group of 5 students is working on a project, a

Posted in About Us

Spotlight: Ask Us

Ask-A-Librarian

ASK US – Chat with a Librarian! Need assistance with your research? Have a reference question?  Stony Brook University Libraries offers the ASK US service – a chance to speak with a librarian right away through instant messaging. Look for

Posted in Reference, Spotlight

New Faculty Publications

Sally Stieglitz, Visiting Assistant Librarian in Research & Instruction Services, published “The American Memory Project.” Electronic Records and Resource Management Implementation in Diverse Environments. [DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4466-3.ch006] J. Krueger, editor. IGI Global,  2014. Jennifer DeVito, Head of Access Services, and Colleen

Posted in New and Notable

Spotlight: Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; its electronic journal collections support a wide array of research. MUSE is a source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world’s leading university presses

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The Write Stuff

Aspiring authors, if you aren’t able to attend this year’s Southampton Writers Conference,  Stony Brook’s annual summer program of stellar writing workshops taught by world class novelists, playwrights, and poets, do not despair….you can still avail yourself of the University

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Books, Databases, eBooks, Electronic Resources, Libraries, Writing and Literature

Farewell Thomas, Hello Congress.gov

congress.gov

In 2015, government researchers will say goodbye to Thomas.gov, the congressional research website of the Library of Congress that was launched back in 1995. Its successor, Congress.gov, currently available in beta format, will be the new official website for U.S.

Posted in Databases, Electronic Resources, Government Information, Libraries, Political Science, Research