Many thanks to Shinnecock artist, educator, and author David Martine who started off our fall Art in Focus lecture series with a fascinating look at Native American Art. David is a member of Amerinda, a New York-based organization promoting and supporting Native American artists. David described the history of the
Meet Elizabeth Gouvis, or Ellie, as she prefers to be called. Ellie began working for the University Libraries during the 2018 Spring semester and has been with us ever since. Growing up in Sayville, Long Island Ellie chose Stony Brook University because of its excellent reputation and closer proximity to
Interested in fossils? Spend an hour with our STEM speaker, Dr. Maureen O’Leary from the Renaissance School of Medicine, to learn about “Collecting fossils in the Sahara Desert of Mali.” Date/Time: Tuesday, September 17 from 1pm-2pm Location: Special Collections Seminar Room, E2340, second floor of the Melville Library Professor O’Leary,
Patricia Brennan, the Director of the National Library of Medicine, spent the day at Stony Brook University on Friday, September 6, 2019 where she met with bioinformatics professionals and medical librarians and gave a fantastic presentation on the use of Artificial Intelligence for improvement of healthcare information delivery. Patti and
Greetings to the Melville Library’s new intern Dan Hunt! Dan is a candidate for the Masters in Library and Information Science at SUNY Albany, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in History and Education. He is receiving training here in the Cataloging Department and will be working at the
Welcome to the new semester! Need help with research? We are here to help! During the Fall semester, librarians are on staff at the North Reading Room (NRR) reference desk Monday-Thursday from 9am-5pm and Friday from 9am-3pm. They provide online chat service Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm. Weekend online chats are also
The Antonija Prelec Memorial Committee in collaboration with Stony Brook University Libraries are very excited to bring you the 2019 Prelec Memorial Lecture! This year, we are pleased to announce our speaker is Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Director of the National Library of Medicine. Please be sure to mark
Try this exercise. Think of your favorite book. Picture its cover, where you were when you read it, what it meant to you. Now: can you remember the first line? The Southampton Library posed that question to patrons and visitors recently through the display “Whose Line is it Anyway?”. Designed
Special Collections and University Archives had an amazing year from academic year 2018 to 2019! Many classes, tour groups, and researchers visited the department in person to consult our unique research and primary source collections. Approximately 1,000 questions were answered. The department scanned and photographed nearly 2,000 pages of content
A breakout session on the collection evaluation project and a poster presentation on the Dental Instruments exhibit at the HSL were well received by SUNY Librarians from across the state. http://www.sunyla.org/sunyla_docs/conferences/programs/SUNYLA_2019_Program.pdf
