On Thursday, 11/16, two faculty members from University Libraries presented their research projects. Clara Tran presented on her assessment of the information literacy sessions provided to the WISE program each semester, Baseline assessment: Understanding WISE freshman students’ information literacy skills in…
Blog Archives
Oya Rieger, PhD to Present 2017 Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture
In 1974, Anotnija Prelec accepted the challenge of establishing the new Health Sciences Library at Stony Brook University. Over the next 26 years, Toni built the HSC Library’s collections with passion and zeal. Her extraordinary knowledge of scientific publishing, coupled…
Posted in Health Sciences Library, Library Science
SBU Libraries hosts a Women’s History Month STEM panel
To wrap up the Women’s History Month celebrations at Stony Brook University Libraries, a panel discussion was hosted yesterday to highlight the past, present and future of women in the STEM fields. Our panelists including members of the SBU community…
University Libraries Presents: Colloquium Series
We are pleased to announce the next event in the Stony Brook University Libraries Colloquium Series. All are welcome to attend. Please mark your calendars and come join the library faculty and staff as we share our current research, initiatives,…
Posted in About Us, Health Sciences Library
Meet Captain Jack Marrow
The winning name is Captain Jack Marrow! Thank you to all who participated in the skeleton naming contest at the Health Sciences Library. The raffle winner has been selected and will be announced later this week. Don’t forget, Captain…
Posted in Health Sciences Library, Libraries
Name our skeleton! Vote today!
Medical and health sciences students! Visit the Health Sciences Library to vote on a name for our skeleton model and be entered to win a raffle prize. Voting ends on 9/2, a winner will be announced on 9/12. We need…
Posted in Health Sciences Library
Tech Spotlight: Visible Body 3D Anatomy Online
Visible Body has traditionally been a desktop application that allows students to view and manipulate different parts of the human anatomy to help them focus on specific organ systems and learn at their own pace. Recently, Visible Body has gone…
Health Science Librarians present on 3D printing
Recently two of the Health Science Librarians, Molly Higgins and Jamie Saragossi presented, “A Comparison of two 3D printing programs in Academic Library Settings” at the annual SUNY Librarians Association conference. The presentation highlighted how 3D printing is being introduced to…
View & Manipulate Molecular Structures
Two workshops are being offered to introduce the primary molecular databases, PDB & MMDB, and will demonstrate the NCBI’s Cn3D software tool for viewing and manipulating structures. One of the fastest growing areas of study in biology focuses on the molecular…
Posted in Health Sciences Library
Let’s Have a “BLAST” with Sequence Similarity Searching
One of the most widely-used tools in computational biology/bioinformatics is the NCBI’s Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST). BLAST allows rapid, easy sequence similarity searching online. However, use of BLAST is only truly effective when you understand what it does…
Posted in Health Sciences Library
