SBU Libraries & Counseling and Psychological Services Presents: “PALS”

On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, SBU Libraries & CAPS, Counseling and Psychological Services, held a popular event, Pet Away Life Stress! (PALS) through animal assisted interactions. Beau, a border collie mix, Sophie, a golden retriever, and Lucy, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel came to

Posted in Events, Library Outreach, Melville Library, Stony Brook University

Tech Spotlight: Duolingo Bots

Duolingo, the language learning site, has recently come out with a new feature that pairs chat bots with learners who want a native speaker experience without the scheduling and cost. The feature lets learners chat with bot characters drawn from

Posted in Emerging Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Creative Commons: Some Rights Reserved

Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting an open and accessible internet that is enriched with free knowledge and creative resources for people around the world to use, share, and cultivate. Creative Commons provides free tools that

Posted in Health Sciences Library, Scholarly Communication, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Writer’s Spotlight: Lia Purpura

November 16, 2016 Author Lia Purpura will be the fourth guest in the fall Writers Speak Wednesdays series of free talks and readings open to the public at Stony Brook Southampton. Purpura will read from and talk about her work on Wednesday, November 16, at

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SBU Libraries Celebrates Native American Heritage Month

On November 2, 2016 the University Libraries hosted a display and educational exhibit as part of the First Native American Heritage Awareness Program Series.  Five tables were set up on that beautiful fall day just outside the Melville Library.  Jay

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Tech Spotlight: Sensay

Sensay is a platform that helps connect people with questions to people with answers across many fields. Instead of letting bots answer questions, Sensay puts AI to work to decode users’ natural language queries and connect them automatically to a

Posted in Emerging Technology, Mobile Technology, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Digital Humanities Open Mic Event, October 31st

Yesterday afternoon faculty and students gathered in the Center for Scholarly Communications at Melville Library to discuss the digital humanities and to explore new possibilities for research.  Emphasizing practices and tools, scholars presented projects which used technology to reveal new

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Digital Humanities

University Libraries Presents: STEM Speakers Series

The University Libraries is proud to announce its third lecture of the fall 2016 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Joanna Kiryluk, Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. Her talk, “IceCube and Understanding the High Energy Universe

Posted in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Book Swap In Central Reading Room!

Bored with textbooks? Need some adventure and can’t really escape to some exotic place? Looking for a good book to read? You only have to look as far as the Central Reading Room Book Swap stand!! Thanks to the cooperation

Posted in Books, Central Reading Room, Get Your Read On, Library Outreach, Melville Library

Tech Spotlight: ATLA Religion Database

With over 4,000 active religions in the world, it can be difficult to track down scholarly religious research. Luckily for us, the American Theological Library Association has compiled a database of over 1,800 journals in the fields of theology and

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Emerging Technology, Library Technology, Religious Studies, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

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