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Celebrate Banned Books Week: Defending Our Right to Read

In honor of Banned Books Week, we invite you to visit the Central Reading Room to explore our special Banned Books display. The display highlights the growing challenges to our freedom to read, showcases books that have faced censorship, and features interactive elements like stickers and a selfie station to

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Celebrate Banned Books Week: Defending Our Right to Read

In honor of Banned Books Week, we invite you to visit the Central Reading Room to explore our special Banned Books display. The display highlights the growing challenges to our freedom to read, showcases books that have faced censorship, and features interactive elements like stickers and a selfie station to

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Mott Street: Performance + Talk

In celebration of AAPI heritages at Stony Brook University, we invited Ava Chin—author, professor, and fifth-generation New Yorker—to discuss her award-winning book Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Homecoming. In this work, Chin delves into the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the United States’ first immigration restriction,

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Data Literacies Librarian Featured in Video

Our colleague Ahmad Pratama is featured in a new video and story in the Meet Your New Colleagues series at Stony Brook. You can hear Ahmad describe his unique journey into the world of data and academic libraries. You’ll also learn what brought him back to Stony Brook after completing

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“Engineering Protein Synthesis Modulators to Understand the Neural Basis of Emotional Behaviors” on September 24 at 1pm

Interested in emotional behaviors?  Spend an hour with our STEM speaker, Dr. Prerana Shrestha from the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior at the Renaissance School of Medicine, to learn about “Engineering Protein Synthesis Modulators to Understand the Neural Basis of Emotional Behaviors.” Date/Time: Tuesday, September 24 from 1pm-2pm Location: Special

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Updates on Chemistry Library Collections

The August 19th rainstorms which caused so much damage to the University’s facilities not only impacted campus buildings, roads and utilities also damaged certain of the University Libraries’ research and learning collections.  On West Campus, the Chemistry Library’s collections were hit hardest.  Water leaked within the Chemistry Archives space, combined with an adjacent

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Culper Spy Day Re-cap 2024

The 10th annual Culper Spy Day was held on Saturday, September 7 in Setauket, Stony Brook, and other locations across Long Island. Special Collections welcomed visitors from the SBU and surrounding communities with an open house showcasing its 1779 spy letter from General George Washington to Major Benjamin Tallmadge. Visit

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Health Tech Fair 2024: Save the date!

The Health Sciences Library will be hosting our Health Tech Fair on September 26th from 10-1 pm. All students, staff, faculty, and University Hospital staff are welcome! We will have representatives from Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill, VisualDx, Thieme, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), the Center for

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