The Melville Library’s Buy a Bag of Books Sale is taking place today – Thursday, October 16 from 9am until 4pm. We have hundreds of books on a wide range of topics: art, history, fiction, science, cooking, psychology, math, health…
Finders Keepers
University Libraries intern, Stephanie McEvoy, interviews the new Head of Health Sciences Library, Ann Gleason. Stony Brook University found a gem when Ann Gleason took over the position of Head of the Health Sciences Library two weeks ago. The mother…
Buy a bag of books!
The Melville Library Book Sale is hosting a one day Buy a Bag of Books Sale! Buy a (plastic) bag for $2 at the Circulation Desk and fill it with books from the Book Sale shelves. There are books on…
Posted in About Us
North American Women’s Letters & Diaries
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries is a fantastic database with thousands of pages of diaries and letters from over 1,325 women. This is a powerful tool for historians, researchers, genealogists, students and those who are fascinated by first-hand accounts…
Michael Huang Presents a Panel at the 2014 Chinese Library Annual Conference, Beijing, China
Michael Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives and Health Sciences Librarian, organized and presented a panel titled “The librarian in the transitional time: Exploration and practice in academic libraries in the United States” at the 2014 Chinese…
Posted in Global Initiatives
Ultimate Frisbee Team & Library Hangout
Come join Stony Brook’s Ultimate Frisbee team and SBU Library for some fun activities on Wednesday, October 8, during campus lifetime on the Staller steps! We’ll have games of Kan Jam, Spikeball and Fricket set up. Feel free to challenge…
Posted in Get Your Read On, Library Outreach
BrowZine @ Stony Brook
BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad or Android tablet. BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and University Libraries subscriptions (including Health Sciences Library subscriptions), uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals…
Posted in Academic Subjects, Electronic Resources
The Library Scavenger Hunt riddles have begun!
Each fall, as the Library prepares to host its annual scavenger hunt, we come out with a new delightfully ambiguous promotional button. To get students into the spirit of the event, the image for each has traditionally been one that…
Article Published About the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection at Stony Brook University
Founded in 2010, the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection, a special collection at Stony Brook University, contributes directly to the study of video games as popular culture and to their historical longevity. The initiative is dedicated to: collecting and…
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…
