In celebration of Open Access Week, the University Libraries hosted a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge.” The event was lead by Lane Raspberry, Wikimedian-in-residence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia and a…
Students in ARH 400 Study the History of Photography in Special Collections
Students in Professor Barbara Frank’s advanced seminar in art history and criticism (ARH 400) visited Special Collections on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 and conducted research using one-of-a-kind, rare primary sources from the Tintypes and Portraits Collection. The collection includes 24 tintype…
The Road Goes Ever On. A Song Cycle: Donald Swann Spotlight
This post is the third part of Music library intern Dan Hunt’s research into J.R.R. Tolkien’s creation of Middle-earth and the music connections that influenced him. You may wish to begin with the first post in this series. Roads go…
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The Secret Life of Clothing
“Clothing holds memory.” That was one of the overriding themes of a talk by artist Sue Ferguson Gussow at the Southampton Library’s Art in Focus lecture series on Tuesday night. A Professor Emerita of The Cooper Union School of Architecture,…
And It Is Sung: The Music of Iceland
The Library’s intern Dan Hunt has been researching the musical influences on the works of fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien. This is a supplement to the first blog post in this series. While reading the books pertaining to Middle-earth I came…
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s Musical Influences
The Library’s intern Dan Hunt has been researching the musical influences on the works of fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien. The article below contains his preliminary findings. “In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Iluvatar,…
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David Martine on Contemporary Native American Art
Many thanks to Shinnecock artist, educator, and author David Martine who started off our fall Art in Focus lecture series with a fascinating look at Native American Art. David is a member of Amerinda, a New York-based organization promoting and…
From the University Archives: Ashley Schiff Nature Preserve Turns 50
Stony Brook University recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Ashley Schiff Preserve. Some students know it as a scenic shortcut from the Main Campus to South Campus and back. Others use it as a “living laboratory” to study its…
Dr. Maureen O’Leary on “Collecting Fossils in the Sahara Desert of Mali”
On September 17, 2019, Dr. Maureen O’Leary presented the first Fall STEM Lecture at the University Libraries about her late 1990s expeditions in the Sahara Desert of Mali. The current region of the Sahara Desert was once the ancient Trans-Saharan…
Posted in Ecology and Evolution, STEM
You Can’t Spell ‘Books’ without ‘Boo’!
While Halloween isn’t until the end of the month, the Southampton library spares no time to decorate for the season. Southampton Library Supervisor, Nicki Loder, created two book displays to help celebrate the month of October. Need a scary read?…
Posted in Books, Southampton Tagged with: book display, display, fiction, film, graphic novels, halloween, horror, non-fiction, october
