Michael B. Huang, SUNY Distinguished Librarian and Director of Global Library Iniaitives at Stony Brook University has recently been recognized by two major library organizations for his role in promoting international librarianship. Mr. Huang has been elected to serve as…
University Libraries is proud to support Juneteenth with all our Seawolves! In honor of this important celebration, we have selected some favorite titles from our collection, now on display in the Central Reading Room and ready to check out! Stop…
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…
Student employees are an important part of the University Libraries’ staff. They are an integral part of our services, from working at the service desks and in preservation, to photographing our events and adding content to our social media, we…
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…
Our social media interns for the spring of 2021 are wrapping up their time with the Libraries so we thought we’d invite them to share some final thoughts about the semester. Each is showing us a picture of where they…
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…