Special Collections and University Archives on Instagram

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Learn about the university’s one-of-kind library collections and university history on Special Collections and University Archives’ Instagram account. Pictured here: A medieval woodcut illustration from the University Libraries’ oldest book:  Schedel, Hartmann, Anton Koberger, Michael Wohlgemuth, and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff.  Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton

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Librarians Sally Stieglitz and Kristen Nyitray win grant for World War I Centennial programming

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Sally Stieglitz and Kristen Nyitray, librarians at Stony Brook University Libraries, have been selected by the Library of America as recipients of a grant for programming marking the upcoming centennial of the First World War. World War I and America is a

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Tech Spotlight: Griti

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Griti is a micro-tutoring platform that delivers videos for your particular school, course, and even instructor, created by past students who got an A. Griti is currently active on 52 campuses including many Ivy League and State Universities. Students with

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Eastern Seawolves Rejoice! Physical Therapy Class of 2016 Donates Picnic Table to Southampton Campus.

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Stony Brook University’s Southampton campus is pristine in its beauty, but some students have taken notice that it could use more outdoor furniture. That’s where the Physical Therapy Class of 2016 comes in. The PT program identified the perfect spot

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Tech Spotlight: Yewno

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Yewno is a next gen discovery system that works with the full text of libraries’ licensed content to return sophisticated results based on ideas rather than metadata and keywords. The system draws on a huge corpus of materials drawn from

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Greetings from Long Island: Digitized Postcards

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View more than 100 of Special Collections’ digitized postcards of Long Island. Dating from the late 1800s, this curated collection of postcards depict scenes spanning from Far Rockaway to Montauk. The collection was donated by Cornell Jaray in the 1980s.

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Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival July 31-August 28, 2016

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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

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Tech Spotlight: Visible Body 3D Anatomy Online

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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

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View the new North Reading Room in 360°

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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

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Get in Touch with the Past with Artemis: Primary Sources (Gale)

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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

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