An article by librarians Colleen Kenefick and Jennifer DeVito titled “Google Expectations and Interlibrary Loan: Can We Ever Be Fast Enough?” has been featured in a special virtual issue on best practices in interlibrary loan in the Journal of Interlibrary…
Travel back in time to see instruments used by dentists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Objects from the personal collection of the late R. Sherman Mills, MD, the Baer Collection from the Stony Brook University School of Dental…
On October 28, Stony Brook University Libraries welcomed Shafeek Fazal, who has joined us as the Associate Director for Library Technology, Discovery and Digital Services. Shafeek comes to SBU from SUNY Maritime, where he had been the Library Director of…
Stony Brook University Libraries extend a warm welcome to Bob Tolliver, who joined our team as the Head of Science and Engineering Library on October 6. Bob recently served 5 years as the Earth Sciences Librarian in the Earth & Mineral…
Food in American culture may be on our minds this Thanksgiving, as we sit down to festive meals with family and friends. For those with an interest in learning more on the topic, Stony Brook University Libraries have a bounty…
On Friday, November 21, 2014, I (Colleen Kenefick, Health Sciences Librarian) spent the day at the John Radcliffe Hospital Cairns Library. This visit was very graciously coordinated in advance between Dr. Hagan Bayley (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford Chemistry…
Sometimes you are looking for unusual content in a database and don’t know where to start your research. Political cartoons can be one of those questions. Stony Brook University Libraries are here to help! To search for political cartoons, a…
A reunion weekend was held at Stony Brook University and at Planting Fields at Oyster Bay (first campus), in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Classes of 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1964, and reuniting the Founders Group, classes of…
Jennifer Lyon joined Stony Brook University Libraries on November 6 as the new Biomedical and Translational Research Librarian. Jennifer formerly was a Clinical Research Librarian at the University of Florida where she was liaison to the Clinical and Translational Research…
Books are easily the predominant symbol that comes to mind when you hear the word library. But games have long played an important role in the library world. Chess Clubs found their way into library space as early as the 19th…
