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Library Physical Reference and Virtual Chat Services

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

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Test Your Literary Knowledge

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

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Gregg Stevens Receives Honorable Mention for Research

Stony Brook Health Sciences Librarian, Gregg Stevens, and co-authors Elizabeth Hinton University of Mississippi Medical Center and Roy Brown of Virginia Commonwealth University received an honorable mention for research presented at the 2019 Medical Library Association Conference. Their presentation; Elevating Nursing Librarianship: Assessing Trends in Distance Librarian Services for Advanced

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Combat Silence

Might the voices of women veterans cast a new light on the realities, ravages and aftermath of war? At a time when we have an increasing number of women in active combat, what would it mean to see war through their eyes? What might their writings and reflections have to

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SEARCH – University Libraries new information discovery tool is now live!

Information discovery now goes FAR BEYOND with the SBU Libraries new “SEARCH” experience, allowing for the discovery of all resources through one search interface. Try it out now (search.library.stonybrook.edu) View SEARCH tutorialsRead SEARCH FAQsSend us your feedbackWatch an introductory video SEARCH is University Libraries’ new search tool. This is a

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