Celebrate Stony Brook University Earthstock 2012, April 16 – 20. Visit the University Libraries information table on the University Mall, Friday, April 20, for recommend resources, tips and tools for environmental research. Also, Sustainability Studies librarian Darren Chase will present…
Michael Huang Appointed Secretariat General at the International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries, Shanghai, China
Health Sciences Librarian Michael Huang was appointed Secretariat General and Member of the Organizing Committee at the International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology jointly organized by Tongji University and the…
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Chinese Cuisine Event
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 1 p.m. CHINESE CUISINE: ITS HISTORY, ART, AESTHETICS & CULINARY APPEAL by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman founded, and for nineteen years, has edited the award-winning magazine Flavor and Fortune. It is…
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Special Collections co-sponsors public program on American Revolution, Civil War
Special Collections and the Three Village Historical Society collaborated on a private grant sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. The project was awarded full funding ($3,000) and will support “Rebels, Resistors, and Rioters,” a public program of lectures on the American Revolution…
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SBU Librarians, Faculty Featured at Museum Event
“The Beginning of Video Games”, a special event at the Museum of the Moving Image on Saturday, October 1, features Cultural Studies professor Raiford Guins, University Archivist and Head of Special Collections Kristen Nyitray, and Librarian Helene Volat. The program…
Early Journal Content on JSTOR, Free to Anyone
Good news for researchers from JSTOR this week: On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere…
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Long Island Historical Journal digital archives available
The Long Island Historical Journal (LIHJ), a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal founded by Roger Wunderlich at Stony Brook University (SBU), is now available online. Thirty-two issues were published by the Department of History and the Center for Regional Policy Studies at…
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Call number and location: PG3326 .P7 C6 1998 | Melville Library Main Stacks eText: Crime and Punishment, provided by Project Gutenberg Possible Paper Topics: Despite his crime, does the author intend Roskolnikov to be…
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Call number and location: PS3515.E37 F338 1987 | Melville Library Main Stacks Possible Paper Topics: How does the author portray the idea of masculinity, and how does the novel’s final line enforce or…
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The Tragedy of Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare Call number and location: PR2807 .A2 U59 2005 | Melville Library Main Stacks eText: The Tragedie of Hamlet, provided by Project Gutenberg Possible Paper Topics Explore the various angles that Hamlet views the…
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