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Pardon the Disruption – Health Sciences Library

Exciting Updates in Progress Please pardon our appearance and any noise as we update our collections. Currently, we’re in the process of general maintenance and assessing our collection to ensure it remains relevant, well-curated, and accessible. These updates are in preparation for a space renovation that will create better study

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NAXOS Music Library Essay Contest!

Greetings Stony Brook University Students! The following is an announcement for the NAXOS Student Essay Contest. NAXOS is a database which contains classical, jazz and world music from the NAXOS label catalog and other labels as well! To access our unlimited simultaneous user subscription, click on “Databases,” and then click

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Two New Hires in Content Services

We’re excited to introduce two new team members who have joined the Content Acquisitions department!  Annette Mims is our new Content Acquisitions Manager Annette will be contributing to collection development, maintaining vendor relationships, overseeing external accessibility and information security reviews, and managing workflows related to resource acquisition. She has been

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Match Day 2025: Good luck to all!

Stony Brook Libraries would like to wish all of our students a wonderful Match Day! We know you will all do great things in the next stage of your medical careers. Every March, fourth-year medical students in the Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine receive the news as to

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Art of the Violin Offers Dynamic Program

Listeners were treated to an enjoyable program presented by Professor Jennifer Frautschi’s violin students in the Galleria on March 12. Hudson Young and Professor Frautschi played movements from Gabriel Fauré’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, with accompaniment by Muli Yu. A cycle of Five Western Chinese Folk Songs, arranged by

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Do You Know Your Music History?

Before there was Spotify and streaming and endless digital catalogs, listening to music was a physical experience. You bought something flat and round that you held in your hands and then you put it into or onto a device and played it. You might have to turn a few knobs

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SBU Libraries received 2025 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity Award

Stony Brook University Libraries has received the 2025 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity Award. The LEAD Award recognizes academic libraries’ programs and initiatives that encourage and support DEIA across campus. Our Libraries are not only committed on paper to DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility) by making it an integral

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Join Us for Love Data Week at SBU Libraries!

Data is everywhere, and knowing how to find, collect, use, manage, and interpret it is more important than ever! Since its launch in 2016, Love Data Week has grown from a U.S.-based initiative into a global celebration of data in all its forms. This year, SBU Libraries are excited to

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ART Tank Winner Exhibition in Central Reading Room

The Stony Brook University Libraries is excited to have an art installation by ART Tank Student Artist Competition winner Annika Griffing. The piece can be found in the Central Reading Room.  Read more about the artist and her work in this article in Stony Brook University News.

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