Speaker: Helen A. Harrison Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Helen will examine the relationship between Jackson Pollock’s “action painting” technique, which reached its apogee in 1947-1950, and the jazz music he loved. His spontaneous creation of free-flowing forms is…
The Three Village area of Long Island is home of the Culper Spy Ring, formed in 1778 to secretly provide General George Washington with the information he needed to turn the tide of the American Revolution. Join us for Virtual…
Please join us for a seasonal literary karaoke. All are welcome to read a short passage from a favorite autumn- or Halloween- themed text, or just to listen. This event will be held virtually. Please register in order to receive…
University Libraries wants you to show it off! We appreciate your efforts to keep yourselves and your friends safe by wearing masks! Love yours? Want to win a prize? Post a pic of you in your wacky, fun or creative…
Do you often copy and paste online images into your projects to make them more visually appealing? Do you sometimes wonder whether it’s ok to use certain images, and, if so, how and whether you should cite them? In this…
This event is a live, virtual dramatization of stories from the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales that are out of copyright, having entered the public domain (published 1923-1924). The readers are drawn from library faculty and staff, students, and the university…
Stony Brook University Libraries is pleased to announce “Documenting COVID-19: Stony Brook University Experiences,” a new digital archive project established to collect, preserve, and publish the institutional history of Stony Brook University during this unprecedented moment in history. The entire…
To avoid any confusion, no – the library does not have a time machine in a study room. At least, not in this century. We do, however, have a virtual game called Study Room Time Machine that we would like…
How well is your research data managed? Funders and publishers are requiring more rigor and transparency than ever before in reporting research data. SBU Libraries is here to help with data management tools and strategies to organize, document and store…
Data visualization literacy is rarely taught outside of STEM classrooms, and yet this mode of engaging with information has been taken up as one of the key methods of distant reading within the digital humanities. Drawing on scholarship from the fields of…