SUNY is putting effort into using Open Educational Resources (OER) to help make educational resources more affordable and accessible for students. OERs also give faculty the opportunity to tailor and customize their materials to their course needs. In June 2016,…
Washington Spy Lecture and Letter Viewing Draws Capacity Crowd
Spies do exist in the archive! The Three Village Historical Society hosted a sold out lecture and viewing of Special Collections‘ 1779 George Washington, Culper Spy Ring letter at the Neighborhood House in Setauket on Monday, July 16. Significant to…
SBU Librarians welcome CSTEP
Librarians Robert Tolliver and Laurel Scheinfeld welcomed students from Stony Brook University’s CSTEP Program. The students were taken on a tour of the Melville Library and were then provided with instruction on the use of library resources. The CSTEP Program…
Long Island Latino Teachers Association To Tour Libraries
Stony Brook University Libraries is proud to welcome the Long Island Latino Teachers Association (LILTA) for a personal tour of the Melville Library. A not-for-profit organization with a mission to “…increase graduation rates, and higher education enrollment, retention and completion…
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EAB Guide App
Have you downloaded the EAB Guide app yet? This is a customizable mobile app that helps you thrive and succeed at Stony Brook University. You can schedule advising and tutoring appointments, get study tips, explore majors, get notified of important deadlines,…
18th Century Lockwood Family Papers Restored
In 2017, Special Collections announced the acquisition of an important local history collection: papers of Eversley Childs (1867-1953) and family members who resided on Long Island, in New York City, and in Greenwich, CT. A segment of the collection, Lockwood family…
Digging in the Southampton Stacks, Book Two: The Hotel, by Elizabeth Bowen
The Hotel, Elizabeth Bowen There are many literary classics nestled in the Southampton stacks awaiting the attention of a devoted reader. Tomes from Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Conrad lurk about, all of which we shall hopefully explore at a date currently…
Posted in About Us, Books, Southampton, Writing and Literature Tagged with: Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the day
Jackson Pollock’s Mural
At our second Art in Focus lecture of the summer, Dr. Elliot Bostwick Davis took us on a journey that included cave paintings, petroglyphs, Arizona landscapes, sand art, the WPA, the Art Student League, and an apartment on East Sixty-First…
Art in Focus Lecture June 5th
We are gearing up for next Tuesday’s lecture on Jackson Pollock’s Mural for Peggy Guggenheim. If you’re unfamiliar with the back story, we luckily have reference books from the Pollock-Krasner Study Center collection at Southampton to help set the scene.…
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Health Sciences Librarians Present at Medical Library Association Annual Meeting
The Medical Library Association (MLA) held its 2018 annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia from May 18th-23rd. Health Sciences Librarians Jessica Koos and Laurel Scheinfeld presented a poster on their research project investigating the educational and professional backgrounds of medical librarians.…
