This Collection was launched in 2008 and features the archives of Carlos Bulosan, Betty Lee Sung, and Asian Adoptee Archive, among many others. The Asian American Studies librarian is Reme Grefalda, regr@loc.gov, 202-707-6096. http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/aapi/index.html
Asian American Pacific Islander Collection at the Library of Congress
Posted in Asian and Asian American Studies
Researchers Boycott Elsevier
Publisher of scholarly journals Elsevier is being boycotted by thousands of researchers who oppose Elsevier’s skyrocketing prices and support of ending open access publishing initiatives. As reported in science and technology blog the Singularity Hub, Researchers from around the world…
Posted in Research
Earthstock 2012
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…
Posted in Global Initiatives
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…
Posted in Events, Special Collections & University Archives
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…
Posted in Library Instruction, Reference
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…
Posted in Reader Advisory
