by Susan Kaufman What is all the buzz about plagiarism today and why does it really matter? Consider the following: Doris Kearns Goodwin, a Pulitzer winning historian for her book, No Ordinary Time (1995), full professor at Harvard, commentator on…
ARTstor – it’s not just for Artists!
ARTstor is a digital initiative by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is a repository for thousands of digital images and data. Images and their respective collections in ARTstor represent a broad range of cultures and time periods. Students are…
A Thousand Words or So
by Paul B. Wiener All definitions of information may have only one thing in common: they assume it is recognizable. One definition I especially like says: it is a measure of how surprising something is. True, that comes from a…
Posted in Library Science
Create Change
The Create Change website is a resource which addresses issues in scholarly communication. The site is geared toward helping faculty and other researchers learn about sharing and using their research more effectively in a world where the scholarly communication model…
Posted in Library Science, Scholarly Communication
Truth without Consequences
Google has introduced one of those new search applications that’s just the kind of thing that makes many librarians distrust Googled information. It’s called Google Trends and it provides context-free information that seems to have no bearing outside the arcane…
Posted in Library Science
Washington’s Secrets: University Acquires President’s Letter to Spymaster
Stony Brook University has acquired a secret wartime letter from Gen. George Washington to his chief spy for $96,000 at an auction at Christie’s in Manhattan. Written from “Head Quarters Westpoint” on Sept. 24, 1779, the missive to Gen. Benjamin…
MLA International Bibliography adds older content
MLA International Bibliography has added nearly 40 years of retrospective content (i.e., bibliographic citations) covering the years from 1926 to 1962.
Posted in Writing and Literature
Reality Checks
Reality can be an interesting source of information. Or is it the other way round? I use the web all the time to find out about the real world. Don’t you? And what I find is “information.” If it isn’t,…
Posted in Library Science
Summer Borrowing Privileges
All students (including doctoral candidates) must be registered for the Summer or Fall semester in order to qualify for Summer library borrowing privileges. After registering, it can take 24 to 36 hours for registration information to be reflected on your…
Posted in Circulation
Lecture and Reception in Celebration of the Richard Vetere Collection on Tuesday, May 2
Richard Vetere will be on campus to visit classes and participate in a dedication ceremony for his archive to Stony Brook University Library’s Special Collections Department. His novel, The Third Miracle, will be available for purchase and book signing by…
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