WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2009 FROM 12:30 – 2 p.m. at the Charles B. Wang Center, Room 301 “Cooking from China’s Fujian Province” special lecture featuring food historian and scholar Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman. Reception follows with Fujianese food tasting. Fujian, a province in southeastern China, boasts a distinct culinary tradition
Please join us for a reception celebrating Herstory Writers Workshop. The archives of Herstory and Erika Duncan are being donated to Special Collections of Stony Brook University Libraries. Erika Duncan is the founder of Herstory Writers Workshop, as well as a novelist and essayist whose work many Long Islanders know
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 at 12:45 p.m. Melville Library Author Series: The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History featuring Nicholas Rzhevsky, Professor and Chair, Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Program: This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the 20 th and 21 st centuries encompasses
Using the Internet for Historical ResearchMore and more valuable historical information can now be found on the internet, especially primary source material being digitized by libraries and research institutions around the world. This workshop will highlight some of the most interesting web sites and web tools, and discuss search methods
There may be periodic interruptions in access to the Stony Brook University Libraries’ digitized collections on Wed, 2/15 as we conduct scheduled maintenance to the server on which the collections reside.
From Chris Filstrup, Dean & Director Stony Brook arrived in force at Christie’s auction of American documents yesterday. Kristen Nyitray, Richie Feinberg, and I represented the library. We were joined by Barbara Russell, Suffolk County Historian, and Elizabeth Kaplan, Director of Education at the Three Village Historical Association. Both Barbara
Using the Internet for Historical Research More and more valuable historical information can now be found on the internet, especially primary source material being digitized by libraries and research institutions around the world. This workshop will highlight some of the most interesting web sites and web tools, and discuss search
On Saturday, May 17, the Library’s George Washington letter, written in 1779, made its first trip off-campus for a public viewing. The occasion was the designation of The Brewster House (c.1665) in Setauket being placed on the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places. One Brewster, Caleb, played
A 3,000-course cultural feast… with no calories! Save and digest the history of Chinese cuisine at a dramatic new exhibition of the Jacqueline M. Neiman Chinese Cookbook Collection. Stony Brook University’s collection includes more than 3,000 cookbooks – from the oldest to the smallest to the longest, and everything in
In celebration of the Stony Brook University’s 50th Anniversary, there is a new website for the University Archives. The site includes a history and timeline of the University, information about print, photographic, and multi-media collections, and links to newly digitized collections. You can now read the digitized versions of publications
