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Southampton Windmill Literary Landmark Dedication Ceremony

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Kristen Nyitray

The historic and iconic windmill on the Southampton campus of Stony Brook University has won designation as a Literary Landmark from United for Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Landmark status was granted to the windmill based on…

Macbeth Goes Digital: Folger Shakespeare Library Launches Digital Texts

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Janet Clarke

Folger Shakespeare Library announces the release of its new Digital Texts, a free, online resource that offers twelve of Shakespeare’s most popular plays from Folger Editions. Try Folger Digital Texts. From the Folger press release: Folger Digital Texts offers meticulously edited,…

South Asian Women’s Creative Collective’s literary festival

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Janet Clarke

November 30-December 1, 2012 in New York City. Storytelling and creative processes have undergone a revolution in the digital age. We dip in and out of different forms of media, borrow from each other every day, and create completely new…

DATABASE TRIAL: New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Janet Clarke

200 full length feature films from leading independent distributors…

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Cinema Studies, Cultural Analysis & Theory, Database Trials, Film Studies, MFA Theatre & Film, Writing and Literature

NYS Poet and Author Announced

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Janet Clarke

Marie Howe to serve as the 10th New York State Poet, Alison Lurie as the 10th New York State Author. Marie Howe succeeds Jean Valentine as NYS Poet and joins a long line of distinguished poets who have served in…

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Writing and Literature

NEW! American Periodicals Series Online

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Janet Clarke

Over 1,100 American magazines spanning 200 years and covering nearly every aspect of American culture.

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Databases, History, Journalism, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Social Sciences, Theatre, Writing and Literature

Reader’s Advisory

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Janet Clarke

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…

Latino Writing Collections

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Janet Clarke

Trial access is available until October 15th to three collections of Latino Writing. The collections include poetry, short stories, folk tales, novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and plays in both Spanish and English from Latino writers around the world. They are made…

Posted in Writing and Literature

News from Project MUSE

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Janet Clarke

Project MUSE introduces linked subject headings (reproduced from Project MUSE’s recent email announcement) Users of Project MUSE articles and Tables of Contents in our recently-launched new format may have noticed an additional feature – “clickable” subject headings for each article,…

MLA International Bibliography adds older content

Posted on May 12, 2006 by Janet Clarke

MLA International Bibliography has added nearly 40 years of retrospective content (i.e., bibliographic citations) covering the years from 1926 to 1962.