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
The SUNY Digital Repository (aka “Dspace”) http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/ will be unavailable January 27-28, 2007 while they migrate the system to new hardware.
Stony Brook University Libraries has acquired an American Revolution wartime letter from General Nathaniel Woodhull to General Philip Schuyler written from New York on March 4, 1776. Nathaniel Woodhull, the eldest son of Nathaniel Wodhull and Sarah Smith, was born at St. George’s Manor, Mastic, Long Island, on December 30,
“The universe (which others call the Library)…….” Borges Who in the world was the “Underground Grammarian?” Who is S. Berliner III? What about “Radio Free Mike?” Dan Traister? The Dead City Library? Paul Bourke? David Chesler? Leif Parsons? The Underground Grammarian was Richard Mitchell, a professor, author, bibliophile and wit.
Play Index on WilsonWeb is the electronic version of Play Index – the print version is in Main Library Reference, Call# PN1655.P55. In the Play Index you can search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form
Stony Brook University has acquired a secret wartime letter from Gen. George Washington to his chief spy for $96,000 at an auction at Christie’s in Manhattan. Written from “Head Quarters Westpoint” on Sept. 24, 1779, the missive to Gen. Benjamin Tallmadge, the Revolutionary Army’s spymaster, focuses on the activities of
Richard Vetere will be on campus to visit classes and participate in a dedication ceremony for his archive to Stony Brook University Library’s Special Collections Department. His novel, The Third Miracle, will be available for purchase and book signing by the author. Coffee reception following ceremonies. Please join us on
