Michael Huang Presents a Panel at the 2014 Chinese Library Annual Conference, Beijing, China

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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

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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

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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

Posted in Events, Information Literacy, Libraries, Library Outreach, Melville Library

Article Published About the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection at Stony Brook University

Creative Computing, Spring 1983. Part of the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection.

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

Posted in Cultural Analysis & Theory, Special Collections & University Archives

Spotlight: Witchcraft

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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