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New to SBU?

Quick start guide for new students at Stony Brook University Here’s a brief overview of the Libraries and what resources you will find both in the library and online. This is just a small sample of the entire guide to the

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Faculty & Staff

How can we help you? Materials & Circulation General Circulation Information Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, StaffLoan period: End of current semester (end of Fall or Spring semester) Maximum number of items out: 500 items Number of renewals: 3 Library Catalog Course

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Collection & Borrowing

Cage Items Collection Development Policy Collection Statistics Journal Subscription List Priority List of Contemporary Composers

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Redesigned Library Spaces

Highlights   |  Innovative Design  |  360° Tour  |  Gallery  |  Renovation Archive Welcome to the newly renovated Reading Rooms of the Frank J. Melville, Jr. Memorial Library! Our vision was to transform the spaces with technology improvements, new furniture, and space

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FLEXspace Awards New Learning Spaces at SBU Libraries

The new North and Central Reading Rooms at Stony Brook University Libraries were recently honored with an award from FLEXspace, an open access repository featuring images and data of learning spaces. FLEXspace and Herman Miller Education are sponsoring my travel

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Senator Jacob K. Javits Digital Collection

View the collection here This digitized collection features print, audio, and video content from the Senator Jacob K. Javits Collection in the Special Collections and University Archives at Stony Brook University Libraries. The items highlight and illustrate Senator Javits’ bipartisanship

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Librarians Sally Stieglitz and Kristen Nyitray win grant for World War I Centennial programming

Sally Stieglitz and Kristen Nyitray, librarians at Stony Brook University Libraries, have been selected by the Library of America as recipients of a grant for programming marking the upcoming centennial of the First World War. World War I and America is a

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Women in US-Asian Relations Oral History Project

  As a final project for a course through the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, “Women in U.S.-Asian Relations” (AAS/POL 307), students conducted interviews with women who are cross-cultural “travelers” between the United States and Asia.   Before

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Sklar Collection on Display at Southampton

Stony Brook University Libraries has so many wonderful collections within their realm that sometimes a collection or two tend to fly under the radar. One of the collections at SBU that has flown under the radar for a number of

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University Libraries Liaison Retreat 2016

Stony Brook liaison librarians gathered at the Southampton campus on Monday, July 17th for a day of brainstorming, discussion, and reflective thinking on the ways in which we can better inspire and facilitate learning on the Stony Brook campus. Dean Constantia

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