Melville Library will host SBUHacks 2026 in the Central Reading Room starting Friday evening, October 23, all the way through Sunday afternoon, October 25. Organized by the Stony Brook Computing Society, this 36-hour hackathon brings together 300+ students to collaborate on technical projects under this year’s theme: Steel and Steam.
SBU Libraries celebrates Banned Books Week with a special display located just inside the entrance of the Central Reading Room. Banned Books Week is an annual event meant to highlight the importance of access to books and the freedom to read without restrictions. The display features books from the library
Celebre el Mes de la Herencia Hispana con las Bibliotecas Universitarias. ¡Pase por la sala de lectura central y vea solo algunos de los artículos que recomendamos de nuestra colección! ¿Te gusta lo que ves? ¡Publica una foto en las redes sociales, etiquétanos @sbulibraries y podrás ganar un premio! Celebrate
Commemorating the anniversary of the riots that followed a police raid on The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, Pride Month has grown over the last 50 years to become an international month-long celebration raising awareness and showing support for our LGBTQ+ community. Aiming to be an inclusive
Last month, SBU Libraries partnered with Professor Nobuho Nagasawa of the Department of Art to host her socially-engaged art project “Emotional Treasures, Emotional Revelations.” Beginning with a kickoff event on November 11, participants in this project created a small four-fold palm-size booklet and wrote in the booklet an anonymous confession
On September 26th, University Libraries welcomed photographer Rachel Woolf and her award winning photos to Central Reading Room. Nancy Hiemstra, Geographer; Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Author of Deportation and Detention (forthcoming, 2019); Irma Solis, New York Civil Liberties Union (Suffolk County); Richard Koubek, Long Island Jobs with Justice and Christopher Sellers,
On April 10th, Stony Brook University Libraries hosted a panel in honor of National Poetry Month. This event was intended to foster a discussion of poetry as a mode of expression, and of the relationship between that expression (format, content, etc.) and other elements of the human experience (culture, history, other
collection recently published by Stony Brook University Libraries. Photographs from the Otto F. Ege compiled portfolio Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI Century are featured. Special Collections, Stony Brook University Libraries owns portfolio “No. 19” of the 40 unique sets created by Ege. Register for the free April 19 lecture
On Friday, November 3, guests of the Art Crawl experienced an exciting and diverse array of photographs, paintings, multi-media installations, and sculpture. Four galleries at Stony Brook University were featured at the second event of the semester. Art Crawls unite Stony Brook University’s galleries through a series of free, guided tours led
Bored with textbooks? Need some adventure and can’t really escape to some exotic place? Looking for a good book to read? You only have to look as far as the Central Reading Room Book Swap stand!! Thanks to the cooperation of a variety of donors from the campus community, there
