On Saturday, September 23, 2017, Stony Brook University celebrated its first CommUniversity Day. It was a day to share some of the exciting and innovative offerings available on campus. Members of the University Libraries volunteered their time for the event, highlighting…
Creating Chapbooks
Many thanks to Arielle Hessler of the SBU Libraries Preservation Department for her workshop on How to Make a Chapbook held at the Southampton campus library on September 27th. Chapbooks are the literary DIY project of choice and the results,…
Tech Spotlight: TED
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit that organizes and hosts speakers on dozens on topics ranging from technology to entertainment to global issues in over 100 languages. All of these talks are available online for free. TED hosts a…
An American in (love with) Paris
If you ever get a chance to see Charles Riley speak, take it. The author of Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism captivated the audience at the SBU Southampton Library’s second Art in Focus lecture on September 26th. …
Health Sciences Librarians Receive NNLM Award
Stony Brook Health Sciences Librarians Jessica Koos, Jamie Saragossi, and Gregg Stevens, along with Sal Filosa from the Port Jefferson Free Library, were recently awarded the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) Health Information Awareness Award. The purpose of…
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New Reaxys Interface Switch Date, November 30, 2017
On November 30, 2017, Reaxys will switch to new Reaxys interface and the original version will no longer be available. What is Reaxys? Reaxys is an online research solution designed to retrieve property, reaction and synthesis data from a…
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Communiversity 2017
View photos from the library’s participation in Communiversity Day (9/23/17). Special thanks to Library IT student Edward Wang who generously volunteered to act as photographer for the event.
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SBU Librarians Present!
On September 21st, four SBU librarians presented their research and professional development activities. Violeta Ilik, Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services, discussed the importance of identity and entity management in cataloging in order to help researchers…
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How to Make a Chapbook
SBU Libraries’ Preservation Department will be out in Southampton on Wednesday, September 27th, teaching students how to assemble their own chapbooks. Chapbooks are handmade, bound collections of writings. They have a storied history, having served as conveyors of everything from…
Tech Spotlight: Shmoop
So you read the book for class, but you’re still having trouble understanding the themes and characters enough to write your paper. That’s where Shmoop comes in! Best known for its literature guides, Shmoop provides summaries, themes, important quotations,…
