Commemorating the anniversary of the riots that followed a police raid on The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, Pride Month has grown over the last 50 years to become an international month-long celebration raising awareness and showing…
This semester, Science and Society 102.23 first-year seminar students practiced using a variety of databases and digital collections to explore questions related to new technologies. One project was to delve into the past and investigate how society reacted to emerging…
Participate in Our Digital Project The anti-racism task force, along with student workers and personnel from Stony Brook University Libraries and the Africana Studies department are documenting racial encounters, experiences, and feelings about racial injustice that members of the SBU…
In conjunction with the online exhibition, “Seeing Past the Future,” hosted by the Pollock-Krasner House, the panel will discuss the exhibition in relation to the concept of sideshadowing, a theory that reminds us that every present moment, every event—major and…
Stony Brook University Libraries’ Anti-Racism Task Force
Participate in Our Digital Project Charge Focus on ways for Stony Brook University Libraries to address social justice issues through access to information and awareness via resources, instruction, and programming. Collection development: Improve the libraries online collections addressing racism perpetrated…
Marion Wolberg Weiss Film historian Watching movies has become a different experience during the pandemic. Viewers are often isolated, interrupted and disorientated. Yet Netflix has been offering films that are especially arresting and offbeat, like “The Queen’s Gambit” and “I…
Thomas McCormick Gallerist, author of Mary Lee Abbott, a painter In conjunction with “Mary Abbott: The Living Possibility of Paint,” the current exhibition at the Pollock-Krasner House, Tom will share his personal recollections of Mary and discuss her remarkable career.…
A great university requires a great library at its core. But, this doesn’t happen by accident. It requires spaces that foster collaborations, examination and exploration. It means everyone from first-year undergraduates to postdoctoral fellows has access to print and digital…
On April 9, 2021, Stony Brook University Libraries hosted an inaugural Symposium on Advancing Equity in Higher Education on Long Island. This event brought together 135 college and university community members and thought leaders from across the region in order…
The University Libraries strongly supports President McInnis’ March 17th statement against Anti-Asian Violence and Racism, and embraces our community members across campus who have been impacted by the anti-Asian sentiment and xenophobia that has increased across our country this last…