We’re asking students to recommend books from our collection, books that inspire and provoke and amuse. First up is our astute library assistant and MFA student, Sarah Stoss. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. …
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Kinesiology Fair Projects on Display
Once again the library is proud to display the projects from the Occupational Therapy program’s 2017 Kinesiology Fair. Constructed by first-year OT students, these inventive and eye-catching devices transform the space into an anatomy lesson crossed with a maker fair.…
Posted in Southampton
SBU Southampton Library Student “Thank You” Messages.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, SBU Libraries asked the SBU Southampton community to share what they were thankful for. Head Librarian Chris Kretz set up a “Wall of Thanks” with simple instructions, different colored markers, and Stony Brook University post-its. Many…
Southampton Event in Library Journal
We’re happy to be a part of Library Journal‘s piece “Not So Trivial Pursuit” in their Reference 2018 supplement. Under the heading “Bolstering fun competitions with reference skills,” associate editor Mahnaz Dar compiles a number of examples of libraries who…
Posted in Reference, Southampton
The Wonderful World of 3D Printing
We’ve installed a new tabletop display in the Southampton campus library, highlighting just some of the things you can do with 3D printing. The technology is truly amazing, having made tremendous strides in the last decade to the point where…
Posted in Southampton, Technology
Katy Siegel and the Venice Biennale
Join us Tuesday, October 10th for the final Art in Focus lecture of the fall at Southampton. Katy Siegel, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art, Stony Brook University will be speaking about…
Posted in Art, Southampton
Creating Chapbooks
Many thanks to Arielle Hessler of the SBU Libraries Preservation Department for her workshop on How to Make a Chapbook held at the Southampton campus library on September 27th. Chapbooks are the literary DIY project of choice and the results,…
An American in (love with) Paris
If you ever get a chance to see Charles Riley speak, take it. The author of Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism captivated the audience at the SBU Southampton Library’s second Art in Focus lecture on September 26th. …
How to Make a Chapbook
SBU Libraries’ Preservation Department will be out in Southampton on Wednesday, September 27th, teaching students how to assemble their own chapbooks. Chapbooks are handmade, bound collections of writings. They have a storied history, having served as conveyors of everything from…
Art in the Jazz Age: Sep. 26
The Art in Focus Lecture Series returns on September 26th with Charles A. Riley II, director of the Nassau County Museum of Art, discussing the creative and social ferment of 1920s Paris. Drawing on his 2017 book, Free…
