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Save the Date and Register – May 6: Food and China’s Silk Road

Food and China's Silk Road

Food and China’s Silk Road: Influences to and from the West by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 1 PM in the Charles B. Wang Center Theatre. Dr. Newman will discuss the East-West cultural exchanges that

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News 12 features Special Collections

News 12 Long Island's Hidden Past, January 2016.

Special Collections is currently featured in the News 12 series “Long Island’s Hidden Past” (January 2016). Hosted by journalist Danielle Campbell, the program showcases collections and historic sites throughout Long Island to highlight our region’s history. Rare documents shown and discussed include

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New Film: “Stony Brook’s First Alumni: Reunion and Reflections”

A reunion weekend was held at Stony Brook University and at Planting Fields at Oyster Bay (first campus), in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Classes of 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964, and reuniting the Founders Group, classes of

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Another year of scavenger hunt success!

On Wednesday, October 22nd, Stony Brook University Libraries successfully pulled off another great photo scavenger hunt, thanks to some dedicated students! With some veteran hunters registering for the event, we felt compelled to redesign large portions of the hunt, puzzles and

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MUS 520

MUS 520 (“Bibliography and Research Skills”) is a five-week course offered every fall for new students in the Music Department’s Doctoral of Musical Arts program in performance.   This year there are over 20 students in the course.  As Head

Posted in Academic Subjects, Arts & Humanities, Books, Catalog, Databases, Information Literacy, Interlibrary Loan, Libraries, Library Instruction, Manuscripts, Melville Library, Music, Reference, Research, Services, Special Collections & University Archives, Writing and Literature

Article Published About the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection at Stony Brook University

Creative Computing, Spring 1983. Part of the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection.

Founded in 2010, the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection, a special collection at Stony Brook University, contributes directly to the study of video games as popular culture and to their historical longevity. The initiative is dedicated to: collecting and

Posted in Cultural Analysis & Theory, Special Collections & University Archives

Special Collections Announces the Opening of the Salvatore LaGumina Collection

Salvatore LaGumina Collection

The Salvatore LaGumina Collection documents Dr. LaGumina’s career as an educator and his research on Italian Americans, in particular those who settled on Long Island, New York, with an emphasis on Nassau County. Comprised of 68 boxes of primary and secondary

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TALENT Grant Awards

Kristen Nyitray, Head of Special Collections and University Archives, and Associate Professor Ray Guins of the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory have been awarded a $6,000 TLT TALENT Grant for their project “Digitization of Documents for the William A.

Posted in New and Notable, Technology

Special Collections

Stony Brook University’s collections of rare maps, atlases, manuscripts, and books comprise the largest repository of archival materials on Long Island. Special Collections and University Archives is the steward of these distinctive primary source materials. Visit the new  Special Collections

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Dr. Daniel Thomas Moran Donates Autographed Books and Archival Materials

moran gift books

  Special Collections of the University Libraries has received a donation of autographed books – literature and poetry – and archival materials, from Stony Brook University alumnus Dr. Daniel Thomas Moran. His series of donations over the past eight years include

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