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Holocaust Remembrance Day

SBU Libraries has recently installed a display of scholarly works, memoirs, and essay collections that discuss the Holocaust to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. These books are on display by the spiral staircase in the North Reading Room. All

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Indigenous Studies Book Display

Indigenous histories, resistance, resilience, and power. The University Libraries’ book display presents our collections on indigenous resistance, resilience, and power in support of  “The Algonquian Language Revitalization Project” offered by the Linguistics Department.  Over the past decade, members of the

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Enter the Rebus Hall of Fame

We’ve transformed our Central Reading Room exhibit space into the Rebus Hall of Fame. Take a moment and walk through a selection of challenging and entertaining brainteasers – see if you can guess them all. A rebus, by the way,

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Dana Reijerkerk Receives 2023 LEADING Fellowship

Stony Brook University Libraries is pleased to announce that the Metadata Research Center in Drexel University’s College of Computing and Informatics named Dana Reijerkerk as a 2023 LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) Fellow. In this remote

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Dissertations and Theses Collection Policy and Practices

Stony Brook University Libraries facilitate access to theses and dissertations in print and/or electronic format (1967-present). Most dissertations and theses are under copyright, and therefore the University Libraries do not sell or reproduce dissertations and theses.  Stony Brook University students,

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New ORCiD Training on April 17, 2023

SBU is now an ORCiD institutional member. ORCiD provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCiD ID) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your ORCiD ID with your professional information —

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Dr. Shikui Chen on “Design for Discovery: Structural Shape & Topology Optimization in the Age of 3D Printing”

On March 7, 2023, Dr. Shikui Chen discussed the challenges of, and opportunities for, optimal designs of structural shapes using topology optimization and geometric modeling. Dr. Chen established a level-set-based topology optimization framework.  He discussed how 2D to 3D designs

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Stony Brook University Libraries is Partnering with Ithaka S+R on “Building Campus Strategies for Data Support Services.”

Stony Brook University Libraries is excited to announce that we will be partnering with Ithaka S+R in the second cohort of Building Campus Strategies for Data Support Services.  This partnership consists of a two-year research and consultation project.  The goal

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Stony Brook University Joins the Dryad Digital Repository!

In collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Department of Information Technology, SBU’s researchers, Stony Brook University Libraries pleased to announce that the University is now a member of the Dryad Digital Repository, along with numerous

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Stony Brook University is now an ORCiD member institution!

As a result of a collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Department of Information Technology, University Libraries, and our researchers, Stony Brook University is pleased to announce that it is now an ORCiD (Open Researcher

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