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Pop Up Music Library

Yesterday our Spring 2023 social media interns hosted a special Pop Up Music Library in the North Reading Room’s Learning Lab. The event was designed to introduce students to the library’s rich music resources and provide a relaxing, alternative space to spend some time. Interns Nicole Schuppert, Veronica Huang, and

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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 of them can be checked out and you can find

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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 Linguistic Department have been collaborating with the leaders from 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, is a visual riddle. You decipher the words and letters

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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 data science fellowship, Dana will work with the Loretta C.

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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, faculty, and staff with a Net ID can access citations

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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 — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more.  Please join us

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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 allowed topology flexibility.  During the lecture, Dr. Chen also shared

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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 other institutions and publishers. The Dryad Digital Repository provides a

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