Is it a learning technology? Is it a major tech event? Is Stony Brook all about it right now? This week, Niantic Labs (of Ingress fame) and the Pokémon Company released Pokémon Go, a location-based augmented reality iteration of the…
Southampton Library Hosts Writers Conference Registration
Libraries, especially academic libraries, are known for being quiet spaces where students can find their favorite study spot and curl up with their assigned reading. The occasional outburst greeted with a stern warning from the Student Assistant covering the front…
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JULIET & RoMEO: Find Open Access Permissions, Mandates
SHERPA is a scholarly communication partnership based at the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham. SHERPA offers a number of web services, including JULIET and RoMEO. JULIET JULIET is a search tool for discovering research funders’ mandates for public access and…
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Michael Huang Presents at ALA Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida
Michael Huang, Librarian, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives, presented “Transformation of academic libraries in China: Challenges, opportunities, and best practices” at the American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, Orlando, Florida, June 23-28, 2016.
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Tech Spotlight: Amazon Inspire
Amazon Inspire is a search engine for open educational resources aimed at K-12 teachers. Much like Amazon’s other functions, the power of Inspire is in the review infrastructure. Teachers will be able to rank and review educational resources through the…
Government Information Spotlight: Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, dubbed “the ten dollar founding father without a father” by Lin-Manuel Miranda in his Tony Award winning play, Hamilton: An American Musical, was a major figure in American and New York politics in the late eighteenth century and is now…
Special Collections in New Exhibition at the Long Island Museum
Political buttons, photographs, and ephemera from Special Collections and University Archives are exhibited at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages in Stony Brook. Part of the new installation, “Long Island in the Sixties,” the items culled…
University Librarians Present Consumer Health Resources to Suffolk County Librarians
On Wednesday, June 22, SBU Librarians Jennifer Lyon, Jamie Saragossi, and Sally Stieglitz presented Consumer Health Resources for the Public Librarian to an engaged audience of public librarians at the Suffolk Cooperative Library System (SCLS) in Bellport, NY at an event co-sponsored by SCLS…
Tech Spotlight: SUNY OER Services
Open SUNY Textbooks, an initiative that has been active since 2012 and has saved SUNY students over $840,000, recently announced a new component to its efforts to produce and distribute open educational resources (OER). SUNY OER Services will help support…
