Stony Brook University Libraries will be holding its popular Buy a Bag of Books Sale on Tuesday, April 26th, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Purchase a bag for $2 and fill it with books from the Book Sale shelves. What a…
Tech Spotlight: Rafter
Rafter is a suite of tools aimed at lowering textbook costs by targeting each particular part of the textbook lifecycle from faculty adoption to bookstore buyback. Rafter offers data to help faculty members choose sustainable textbooks, offers a competitive rental…
Melville Library Features Unique Comic Books
Comic books from Special Collections are featured in three of the Melville Library’s first floor display cases. Case one highlights the July 1976, issue #158 of The Amazing Spider-Man – “Hammerhead is Out”! Set at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Spiderman finds…
The Society for Scholarly Publishing Connects publishers, researchers and Librarians
A nonprofit entity, The Society for Scholarly Publishing was established in 1978 to foster academic publishing and help build community. The Society strives to bring together publishing professionals, researchers and librarians to network, share information and communicate the latest developments…
Posted in Scholarly Communication
View & Manipulate Molecular Structures
Two workshops are being offered to introduce the primary molecular databases, PDB & MMDB, and will demonstrate the NCBI’s Cn3D software tool for viewing and manipulating structures. One of the fastest growing areas of study in biology focuses on the molecular…
Posted in Health Sciences Library
Explore Historic Map Works at SBU Libraries
Create A Zen Garden
On Wednesday, March 30th, SBU Libraries offered a special event for students to stop and take a break for a few minutes from their studies. Using the libraries’ promotional “Get Your Read ON!” Frisbees, a cup or so of beach…
Posted in Events, Get Your Read On, Library Outreach, main, Melville Library, Stony Brook University
Mary Carleton on Marriage at University Libraries Present: Women’s History Month Colloquium Series
On March 30th, Dr. Kristina Lucenko presented her work on Mary Carleton as a commentator on marriage in seventeenth-century England, “I’m ‘Wife’! Stop there”: Mary Carleton’s “Uncivil” Union. Director of the Program in Writing & Rhetoric at Stony Brook University,…
Tech Spotlight: American Film Scripts Online
American Film Scripts Online contains over 1,009 scripts by 1,062 authors. Many of these scripts show the facsimile images of the original scripts that allow users to view notes and directions from the scene. The scripts are also indexed to…
Special Collections Event: “Confucius: His Thoughts About Food”
Join us on Wednesday, May 4 at 1pm for “Confucius: His Thoughts About Food,” a lecture by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman. Though he taught over 2,000 years ago, Confucius (551–479 BCE) remains a major force in Chinese thinking: and his…
