Michael Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives and Health Sciences Librarian, was invited to present “The evolving role of academic libraries and librarians in the United States” at the Shanghai Normal University Library, Shanghai, China, on Monday,…
In an effort to provide extended services to a budding enrollment, the Stony Brook Southampton Library has, and will continue to make major changes to their services and online resources. The changes started late in April when the Southampton branch…
Students in an online course at Georgia Institute of Technology got a surprise recently when they were told that one of their TAs wasn’t quite human. Jill Watson, so named because she was built on IBM’s Watson analytics system, answered…
Renovation of the computer lab and classrooms in the HSL has been completed and they are open for use! The renovations include adding 50 percent more capacity in the two classrooms and lab! Retractable wall between Classroom 1 and 2…
In a previous post, we presented Altmetric as an innovative method of displaying research impact on the social media by tracing mentions on Facebook, twitter, blogs and downloads. Now, Altmetric is used to measure the impact of more than 8000…
Melville Library (Central Reading Room) is now open 24/7 for finals, through May 18, 2016. May 1 – 17: 24 hours May 18: Closes at 5:00PM Best of luck on your finals!
On Tuesday, May 3, Stony Brook University Libraries presented University Libraries Writers Series: A Conversation with Naomi Wolf to an engaged audience of scholars, students, and community members. Sharing her research for her upcoming book, Outrages, best selling author Dr.…
Data USA is a visualization platform to help regular Americans make sense of government data. The data comes from a variety of sources including the American Community Survey, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the University…
Jennifer Lyon (Biomedical & Translational Research Librarian) and Clara Tran (Science Librarian) presented “Faculty Use of Author Identifiers and Researcher Networking Tools” at the METRO Science Librarians Research Forum on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The research forum provided an excellent…
Yesterday’s Buy a Bag of Books Sale was a success! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to take advantage of the bargains. A special thank you to the library staff who help make this event possible. Photo courtesy of Brian…
