Shafeek Fazal

Fall 2021 Art in Focus lecture series off to an exciting start

On Tuesday, September 21, University Libraries and the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center were pleased to welcome Dr. Lewis Kachur of Kean University for an Art in Focus talk on “The ABCs of New York Surrealism in the 1930s.” Dr. Kachur’s lecture, which traced the initial New York reception of

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Call for applicants for inaugural Jacob K. Javits Graduate Research Fellow

Calling graduate/PhD students OR those who have recently completed a graduate/terminal degree, from SBU & beyond: Are you looking for a fellowship opportunity in a multidisciplinary research role that can combine humanities, history, political science, public policy, international relations and/or journalism, communications or filmmaking with library special collections and archives

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Call for Artists: Fall 2021 Student Art Show

Stony Brook Fine Arts Organization (FAO) announces the call for artists for the Fall 2021 Student Art Show! Art Exhibition will be held at the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library in the North Reading Room. Submissions due by: September 25th Guidelines: Open to all graduates and undergraduates of all majors.

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Highlighting Black Stories

Thank you to Shay De La Cruz Coronado for guest-authoring this blog post! Shay serves as a student representative on the library’s Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Committee. The purchase of the books she highlights was made possible by an SBU Presidential Mini-Grant for Departmental Diversity. We also have available a

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Giving Day: April 21, 2021

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 resources spanning thousands of topics. It means supporting scholarship at

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IIIF and Mirador viewer for digital collections and research

On March 3rd, 2021 the SBU Center for Digital Humanities in collaboration with the SBU Libraries Digital Projects team hosted an hour-long “Digital Humanities Show & Tell” presentation entitled “Mirador 3.0 IIIF Image Viewer for Digital Collections and Research.” Chris Sauerwald, SBU Libraries Multimedia Specialist presented the event via Zoom

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