As a gentle rain poured over eastern Long Island early Sunday evening, a packed sanctuary of concertgoers at Bridgehampton’s Presbyterian Church reveled in Alan Alda’s delightful readings of excerpts from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s letters, interspersed with top-notch performances of the…
Visible Body has traditionally been a desktop application that allows students to view and manipulate different parts of the human anatomy to help them focus on specific organ systems and learn at their own pace. Recently, Visible Body has gone…
Before… and Beyond! As we approach the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester, we come ever closer to the completion of the large scale renovation project in the Melville Library. Already re-opened is the all new North Reading Room, which…
Make connections and gain greater insight into your research by searching three primary source databases at once. Artemis: Primary Sources provides access and simultaneous cross searching of three Gale primary source databases: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and…
Stony Brook University Libraries has so many wonderful collections within their realm that sometimes a collection or two tend to fly under the radar. One of the collections at SBU that has flown under the radar for a number of…
Stony Brook liaison librarians gathered at the Southampton campus on Monday, July 17th for a day of brainstorming, discussion, and reflective thinking on the ways in which we can better inspire and facilitate learning on the Stony Brook campus. Dean Constantia…
Special Collections proudly participated in “Culper Spy Day: Our Revolutionary Story” on Saturday, July 23. A collaboration of 17 local institutions and organizations, an activity-filled day of events from Oyster Bay to Port Jefferson highlighted the amazing history behind George Washington’s…
The dog days of summer include working like a dog for many Stony Brook scholars. Here are some of the best technologies to keep your writing and research game hot while the temps rise: White Noise Time away from your…
Fabula Maps is a digital humanities teaching tool that makes it easy to create interactive maps. The action of the map is similar to Storymap JS, but Fabula is aimed at users who might need a technology assist and more…
Did you know that Stony Brook University on Long Island has a gigantic collection of Chinese cookbooks? What about the papers of the first published female Chinese American novelist? This week, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) featured an…
