Stony Brook’s Ultimate Frisbee team and SBU Libraries teamed up this past Wednesday during campus lifetime to enjoy some midday sun on the Staller Steps. SBU Libraries provided munchkins and frisbees while the Ultimate team played kan-jam and tossed the disc. Many…
How to Make a Tiny Book Workshop
Workshop Description: On October 20th, Arielle Hessler, Preservation Technician/Bookbinder, will be hosting the popular How to Make a Tiny Book Workshop within the University Libraries’ Preservation Department. The workshop explores the blending of book as art with an introduction to practical bookbinding…
Posted in Preservation
Tech Spotlight: Google Calendar
Just keeping track of your busy schedule can be a full-time job! Did you write down your homework in your agenda? Take a picture of when that club meeting was with your phone? Google calendar is a free app that…
Dean of Libraries Tours Library of Congress with SBU Alumni
Constantia Constantinou, Dean of Stony Brook University Libraries, and Mr. Henry V. Carter ’86 Digital Conversion Specialist, Library of Congress, host a special private tour of the United States Library of Congress to SBU Alumni and their families.
Posted in About Us
Database Update: Artstor
Have you noticed that the digital art library database, Artstor, looks different? You may have thought, Wow! No more pop up windows or Flash needed when I want to look at an image, but where did my instructor privileges go?…
Open Access Week Events
Stony Brook University Libraries is marking Open Access Week, October 23 – 27, with a series of events to raise awareness of open access, open education, the new Stony Brook University Open Access Policy, and trends in scholarly publishing and research…
Posted in Open Access, Scholarly Communication
Katy Siegel and the Venice Biennale
Join us Tuesday, October 10th for the final Art in Focus lecture of the fall at Southampton. Katy Siegel, the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art, Stony Brook University will be speaking about…
Posted in Art, Southampton
University Libraries Presents: STEM Speaker Series, Dr. Ming-Yu Ngai
The University Libraries is pleased to announce its third and final lecture of the fall 2017 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Ming-Yu Ngai, Department of Chemistry. Title: “Visible-Light-Driven Artificial Photo-synthesis in Organic Synthesis” Date: Tuesday, November 14 from…
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University Libraries participates in CommUniversity Day 2017
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,…
