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Robert Browning Bicentennial Celebration, Thursday September 20

Please join us at a Bicentennial Celebration for poet and playwright Robert Browning on Thursday, September 20 at 4 p.m. Featured speakers: Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library Edward Giuliano, President, New York Institute of Technology

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Events, Special Collections & University Archives

Digital Long Island Collection Receives National Recognition

SBU Libraries’ Special Collections’ guide to digital Long Island documents and books receives recognition.

Posted in Digital Collections, Special Collections & University Archives

AMAR Collection

The Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR) Collection is part of the Iraq Cultural Heritage Program (ICHP) Grant. The ICHP was established in 2008 through a grant from the US Embassy Baghdad. The Cultural Affairs Office at the Embassy oversees

Posted in Anthropology, Digital Collections

“Letters from a Spy”: James Jay, 1808

The university’s James Jay letter (1808) is featured in the August 2, 2012 edition of The Village Times Herald. James Jay (1732 -1815), American physician and politician, and elder brother of John Jay, supplied medicines to George Washington during the

Posted in Special Collections & University Archives

ECCO–The Eighteenth Century Online

  Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is   a major digital collection consisting of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Includes over 180,000

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Digital Collections, eBooks, Social Sciences

New Electronic Collections Available: EEBO

Over the past two years, the University Libraries has been able to purchase some key research collections of primary resources. One such resource is Early English Books Online (EEBO). It includes digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Databases, Digital Collections, eBooks, Electronic Resources, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Social Sciences

SBU Baseball: Images from the University Archives

Congratulations to the Stony Brook Seawolves on a remarkable season! From the University Archives, view photographs of SBU’s baseball teams over the years…

Posted in Special Collections & University Archives

Chinese Cuisine Event

Wednesday, April 25, 2012  at 1 p.m. CHINESE CUISINE: ITS HISTORY, ART, AESTHETICS & CULINARY APPEAL by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman founded, and for nineteen years, has edited the award-winning magazine Flavor and Fortune. It is

Posted in Events, Special Collections & University Archives

Special Collections co-sponsors public program on American Revolution, Civil War

Special Collections and the Three Village Historical Society collaborated on a private grant sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. The project was awarded full funding ($3,000) and will support “Rebels, Resistors, and Rioters,” a public program of lectures on the American Revolution

Posted in Events, Special Collections & University Archives

SBU Librarians, Faculty Featured at Museum Event

“The Beginning of Video Games”, a special event at the Museum of the Moving Image on Saturday, October 1, features Cultural Studies professor Raiford Guins, University Archivist and Head of Special Collections Kristen Nyitray, and Librarian Helene Volat. The program

Posted in Game Studies, Special Collections & University Archives