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Give a Book Take a Book – SS Melville Lives On!

The SS Melville boat will serve as a new library outreach vessel for supplying books for patrons to give and take.

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Reader’s Advisory

Stony Brook University Libraries offers a helpful tool to assist you in researching a number of popular books and films found in our collection. Throughout the Main Stacks, patrons may find small signs posted on random aisles providing a title that can be located in

Posted in Books, Classics, Comparative Studies, Film Studies, Melville Library, Reader Advisory, Research, Writing and Literature

Distinguished Student Employee Award – It’s About Us Campaign

Find out how you can help fund the University Libraries Distinguished Student Employee Award and help the library’s student workers.

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2009 University Libraries Distinguished Student Employee Award Recipient – Nancy Sciacca

Congratulations Nancy on being one of this year’s Award Recipients, we wish you much success in your future! Nancy worked in the Department of Circulation Services from September 2007 until her graduation this May 2009. Nancy was a valuable part

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2009 University Libraries Distinguished Student Employee Award Winner – Dengfei Yu

Congratulation Dengfi on being one of this year’s Award Recipients, we wish you much success in your future! Dengfei was employed in the Interlibrary Loan Department from January 2005 until his graduation this May 2009. He credits I.L.L. with learning

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Student Staff Pizza Party Photos

The 6th annual student staff pizza party hosted by the library social events team was a hit! Each year we grow and change but what is unchanging is the library’s appreciation of all the hard work and dedication of our

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2009 Thomas Jefferson Award Winner – Daniela Doneva

Congratulations to 2009 Thomas Jefferson Award Winner, Daniela Doneva. Daniela has been working in the Music Library as a work study student for the past 3 years; her supervisors rely on her to handle a multitude of tasks. She is

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2009 Thomas Jefferson Award Winner – Anthony C. Cooke

Congratulations to 2009 Thomas Jefferson Award winner, Anthony C. Cooke. Due to life’s circumstance Anthony dropped out of high school to take a full time job, and after a few years he returned to fulfill his educational goals, completing his

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See what others have to say about the library collection….

Check out the recent SBU GradMag article Make Our Library Your Own Theatre by J. J. Zou!

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Inter-Campus Delivery Service

Are you a student at the Southampton Campus who needs a book from the Melville Library in Stony Brook? Or a Manhattan Campus student who is confused about how to get access to a DVD from the Southampton Campus? Have

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