The winning name is Captain Jack Marrow! Thank you to all who participated in the skeleton naming contest at the Health Sciences Library. The raffle winner has been selected and will be announced later this week. Don’t forget, Captain…
Central Reading Room Opens!
The Central Reading Room is now open. Furniture and technology placement will continue through the next month, so bear with us as we get the final details right! The new Central Reading Room currently features a flexible event space, reading…
Posted in Libraries, Renovation News
Tech Spotlight: Kanopy Streaming
Kanopy is an online streaming video service that provides a wide collection of films, documentaries, and foreign language videos in a variety of academic subjects. Subjects include the social sciences, the arts, education, business, health, global studies and languages, sciences, and…
FLEXspace Awards New Learning Spaces at SBU Libraries
The new North and Central Reading Rooms at Stony Brook University Libraries were recently honored with an award from FLEXspace, an open access repository featuring images and data of learning spaces. FLEXspace and Herman Miller Education are sponsoring my travel…
Joining SoMAS for a Sunset Cruise of the Shinnecock Bay
Some may claim that library workers aren’t known for their prowess on the open sea, but don’t tell Stony Brook University Libraries’ Daphne Trakis that. Daphne strapped on her sailor shoes Thursday, August 11th, and set off on the SoMAS (School…
University Libraries Presents: STEM Speakers Series
The University Libraries is pleased to announce its first lecture of the fall 2016 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Sotirios Mamalis, Department of Mechanical Engineering. His talk, “Internal Combustion Engine Research for Sustainable Transportation and Power Generation” will be…
University Libraries Presents: Writers Series Announced
The University Libraries proudly announces its exciting Fall 2016 Writers Series. Please register and join us for an hour of diverse, dynamic talks by our esteemed Stony Brook faculty. Tuesday, 9/27: Mary Jo Bona & Adrienne Munich (register here) Mary Jo…
Michael Dorman Collection Open for Research
!["We Shall Overcome." [New York], [Delacorte Press]; distributed by the Dial Press [1964].](https://library.stonybrook.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dormanovercome.jpg)
The Michael Dorman Collection, located in Special Collections of the University Libraries, is open for research. Journalist, reporter, and author Michael Dorman (1932-2008) was born in the Bronx, New York. He was a writer and editor at Newsday, a professor of journalism,…
Academic Commons: Your Global Audience Is Here
The Academic Commons is an open access scholarly repository and publishing platform for the Stony Brook University community. Works in Academic Commons are: *freely accessible online *easily discoverable via search engines *regularly backed up *assigned a permanent URL so they…
Adrienne Harris visits the Robert Sklar Collection at SBU’s Southampton Library.
Adrienne Harris recently visited the Southampton library with Professor and novelist Robert Reeves. Robert Reeves guided her through the multiple displays that SBU’s Southampton Library put together in honor of her late husband, Dr. Robert Sklar. She spoke in great detail…
Posted in Southampton, Stony Brook University
