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Welcome Laura Costello, Head of Research & Emerging Technologies!

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SBU Libraries is excited to announce the newest member of our team, Laura Costello, our new Head of Research & Emerging Technologies.  Laura comes to us from Columbia University Teachers College where she was the Head of Library Materials and Acquisitions.

Posted in Library Instruction, Melville Library, New and Notable

Library Workshop with Associate Director for Research and Instruction at MIT, Tracy Gabridge

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SBU Libraries will hold a workshop for liaison librarians on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at the Wang Center. There will be a presentation by Tracy Gabridge, who is the Associate Director for Research and Instructional Services at the Massachusetts Institute

Posted in Interlibrary Loan, Italian American Studies, Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Science, Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Melville Library, New and Notable, Southampton, Spotlight, StaffWeb, Stony Brook University, Writing and Literature

Library & Writing Faculty Awarded S-BOLD Grant

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President Stanley and Provost Assanis, in support of the continuing evolution of educational excellence, have established the Stony Brook Online Learning Development Initiative (S-BOLD), funded initially for four years at a level of $250,000 per year. This initiative sought new

Posted in Featured, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Library Technology, New and Notable, Scholarly Communication

Welcome Elisabeth Pankl, Head of Academic Engagement!

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SBU Libraries is excited to announce the newest member of our team, Elisabeth Pankl, the Head of Academic Engagement. Lis grew up in Washington State and attended Washington State University as an undergraduate. She began her academic career at Louisiana State

Posted in About Us, Library Instruction, Melville Library, New and Notable

Welcome to Kate Kasten!

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Kate Kasten recently joined our library team as an Intern for the Spring semester! Kate is a student in the Master of Library and Information Science program at Queens College. She will graduate in May with her degree and a

Posted in New and Notable

First SBU Library Board Game Revealed

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As if you needed another great reason to love your library!To further prove that we are “More Than Just Books”, Stony Brook University Libraries have been spending the summer months crafting a line of library themed board games, based on

Posted in Library Outreach, Melville Library, New and Notable

Need the Wall Street Journal?

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Looking to access the Wall Street Journal but can’t find Factiva? Stony Brook University Libraries has just added The Wall Street Journal, a new ProQuest database for access full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1984 – present. In

Posted in Business, Economics, Electronic Resources, New and Notable, News Literacy

New Library Workshops

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Upcoming in Fall 2014 are a number of interesting and useful workshops taught by our friendly librarians and staff.  The workshops being offered include: Introduction to Endnote, Zotero Basics and “It’s On The Internet, It Must Be True”. See our

Posted in Information Literacy, Library Instruction, New and Notable

TALENT Grant Awards

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Kristen Nyitray, Head of Special Collections and University Archives, and Associate Professor Ray Guins of the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory have been awarded a $6,000 TLT TALENT Grant for their project “Digitization of Documents for the William A.

Posted in New and Notable, Technology

New Faculty Publications

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Sally Stieglitz, Visiting Assistant Librarian in Research & Instruction Services, published “The American Memory Project.” Electronic Records and Resource Management Implementation in Diverse Environments. [DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4466-3.ch006] J. Krueger, editor. IGI Global,  2014. Jennifer DeVito, Head of Access Services, and Colleen

Posted in New and Notable