Spotlight: Witchcraft

Witchcraft in Europe & America is a research database of Fulltext primary sources offering a wide range of writings on the subject of witchcraft from the 15th century to the early 20th century, including many rare and fragile manuscripts of eyewitness

Posted in Arts & Humanities, History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Spotlight, Women's Studies, Writing and Literature

Special Collections Announces the Opening of the Salvatore LaGumina Collection

Salvatore LaGumina Collection

The Salvatore LaGumina Collection documents Dr. LaGumina’s career as an educator and his research on Italian Americans, in particular those who settled on Long Island, New York, with an emphasis on Nassau County. Comprised of 68 boxes of primary and secondary

Posted in Italian American Studies, Special Collections & University Archives

SBU Libraries Honors Banned Books Week

This Sunday marks the first day of Banned Books Week, when readers throughout the nation are encouraged to embrace their freedom to read. It is important to recognize the harm that censorship of words, thoughts, and ideas can have on a society.

Posted in Libraries, Library Outreach, Melville Library

President Stanley lecture: “Ebola: Risks of Emerging Infections”

President Stanley’s talk, “Ebola: Risks of Emerging Infections,” was delivered on Wednesday, September 3, at 1:15 pm in the Staller Center.  See the entire lecture below. More Information and Resources for Biomedical and Health Sciences Research Medicine Research & Subject

Posted in Medicine

Database Trial: Eighteenth Century Journals Portal

Eighteenth Century Journals Portal brings together rare journals and newspapers printed between c.1685 and 1835, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues, others run for several years.

Posted in Cultural Analysis & Theory, Database Trials, Economics, French, History, Journalism, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Women's Studies, Writing and Literature

Fall Festival 2014

The University Bookstore, in collaboration with the Provost’s Liaison Office and WUSB 90.1 FM, is presenting a Fall Community Festival on Wednesday, October 8, from 12 pm to 2:30 pm outside of the Melville Library. WUSB will be streaming live

Posted in Library Outreach

HLAS Online

The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and

Posted in Spotlight

Wall Street Journal

Stony Brook University Libraries now has the Wall Street Journal, a new ProQuest database, with full-text access to the Wall Street Journal from 1984 to the present. In addition to WSJ print access, we now have Wall Street Journal (online edition)

Posted in Spotlight

#SeawolvesReadEverywhere

Do Seawolves read everywhere? Apparently they do, as evidenced by the new Twitter campaign just launched by @SBULibrary and featuring a book loving Wolfie. Join the fun by tweeting your own photo reading the book of your choice to @SBULibrary with

Posted in Books, Libraries, Library Outreach

Registration for 3rd Annual Scavenger Hunt now OPEN!

It’s that time of year again – time for new students to don their thinking caps and race through the library for a chance to win prizes. For the third straight year, Stony Brook University Libraries will host their annual scavenger

Posted in Events, Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Outreach, Melville Library

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