Join us at the Health Sciences Library for our Health Tech Fair on September 16th from 11 pm. to 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome, including students, staff, faculty, and University Hospital staff. Representatives from EBSCO Health, Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill,…
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2025 Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture Recap
The annual Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture took place in the Wang Center Theater on March 27th, 2025. This event celebrates the life and accomplishments of the founding Director of the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library, Antonija Prelec. The lecture…
The Research Canvas: Filling in the Blanks with Art, Zines and Queer Techniques
On September 26th, Rena Yehuda Newman provided a 90-minute talk entitled: The Research Canvas: Filling in the Blanks with Art, Zines and Queer Techniques. The event was co-hosted by University Libraries and the LGBTQ* Services and Diversity, Intercultural and Community…
Racial Unrest of 2020: Experiences from the Stony Brook University Community
SBU Libraries New Oral History Digital Collection The Stony Brook University Libraries’ Anti-Racism Task Force, along with student workers and personnel from the Africana Studies department documented racial encounters, experiences, and perceptions around racial injustice that members of the Stony…
Posted in About Us, Africana Studies, Digital Collections, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Education, Health Sciences Library Tagged with: Black Lives Matter, oral history
A Student Perspective: Reflecting on the End of the English Major
Authored by Fatou Lemon Administrative Intern to the Dean of University Libraries Political Science Major, 2024 After attending the “Reflecting on “The End of the English Major,” event hosted by the Stony Brook University Libraries, it is clear that the…
Library faculty team up with undergraduate student to promote open access
In the opening paragraph of his recent post to the Program in Writing and Rhetoric’s RhetComp blog, student Matt Hono explains a typical undergraduate experience of using databases to write a research paper: “Overwhelmed with the simple goal of finishing…
Call for Proposals: Symposium on Advancing Equity in Higher Education on Long Island
Stony Brook University Libraries is pleased to invite proposals for presentations, panels, and interactive workshops for a virtual Spring 2021 symposium on Advancing Equity in Higher Education on Long Island. This inaugural symposium aims to bring together college and university…
Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries Program (HeLP): Upcoming Webinar on Influenza
The Stony Brook Medicine Healthy Libraries Program (otherwise known as SBMHeLP) has an upcoming webinar on Tuesday, November 3rd from 2-3pm entitled “The Flu Vaccine: What You Need to Know.” The webinar will provide general information about the flu vaccine,…
Posted in Education, Health Sciences Library, Libraries, Library Outreach, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Social Welfare Tagged with: health sciences, healthy libraries program, influenza, public health, vaccination
Breaking Out New Ideas
A new type of instructional activity broke out last week when the SBU Libraries Academic Engagement team introduced our new Breakout Boxes. Similar in concept to the popular breakout rooms, these boxes challenge teams to work together with the goal…
Dr. Elena Davidiak on Raising and Educating Bilingual Children
Dr. Elena Davidiak (Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature) presented her research on early childhood bilingualism, with a specific emphasis on challenges and strategies for parents and educators. Sharing her own experience as a researcher and as the mother of…
Posted in Arts & Humanities, Education
