FOCUS: Art and the Jazz Age by Charles A. Riley II, Director of the Nassau County Museum of Art Riley’s talk is based on his most recent book, Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism. Drawing on unpublished albums, drawings, paintings…
FOCUS: Art and the Jazz Age by Charles A. Riley II, Director of the Nassau County Museum of Art Riley’s talk is based on his most recent book, Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism. Drawing on unpublished albums, drawings, paintings…
FOCUS: Jackson Pollock’s Alchemy by Susan Davidson and Carol Stringari, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum An inside look at the fascinating and revealing process of revitalizing one of Pollock’s most famous paintings, which lives in Peggy Guggenheim’s Venetian palazzo. It recently…
Exhibition highlighting Native Culture during Native American Month in November
Presentation by journalist, author, and historian Bill Bleyer. The primary focus of this lecture is the sinking of the San Diego, the only American capital warship in World War I off Fire Island. To place this event in context, the…
The Colloquium provides a forum for the library faculty and staff to share their research and service to the profession and Stony Brook community. Please join us Thursday 11/16 at 1pm in the Special Collections Seminar Room for the following…
Lightning talks on various topics in open access, including open access to health information, open education resources, and open data.
Join us for a lightning round of presentations by library faculty about their research and service to the profession and Stony Brook community. Managing Identities and Entities Violeta Ilik This presentation will provide insight into why the term “Identity…
A rare 1752 Long Island land deed, from the papers of the Childs and Lockwood families, was recently professionally conserved. The collection of Eversley Childs (1867-1953) and family members, who resided in Crane Neck, Village of Old Field, NY, New York…
On Saturday, June 3, graduates of SBU’s class of 1967 visited Special Collections and University Archives as part of festivities for their 50th class reunion. Alums attended an open house that featured an exhibit of photographs, newspapers, yearbooks, and artifacts from…
Global Library Initiatives Lecture Series You are cordially invited to the 5th lecture in the Office of Global Library Initiatives Lecture Series titled “Subject Librarian Services at Shanghai Normal University.” The lecture will be delivered by Ning Jia at 3:00-4:00 pm, Wednesday,…