On September 30th, 2024, Paige Lord, Tom Costello, Musa Al-Gharbi, Klaus Mueller, and Dean Karim Boughida discussed Democracy in the Digital Age at the Wang Center Theatre. Paige Lord is an expert in AI Ethics with a focus on its impact on policy and society. She is the creator of
On September 26th, Rena Yehuda Newman provided a 90-minute talk entitled: The Research Canvas: Filling in the Blanks with Art, Zines and Queer Techniques. The event was co-hosted by University Libraries and the LGBTQ* Services and Diversity, Intercultural and Community Engagement. “What is a topic you still don’t know much
SBU Libraries New Oral History Digital Collection The Stony Brook University Libraries’ Anti-Racism Task Force, along with student workers and personnel from the Africana Studies department documented racial encounters, experiences, and perceptions around racial injustice that members of the Stony Brook University (SBU) Community experienced related to the murder of
On the evening of October 19th, University Libraries hosted its first-ever nursing panel in honor of Filipino American History Month. Nerissa Balce, Associate Professor of Asian & Asian American Studies, moderated the panel. Panelists included: Sofia Reyes, Clinical Instructor, School of Nursing; Director of Simulation Education Lani Blanco, Clinical Instructor,
Stony Brook University Libraries now has a membership with Punctum Books. Punctum Books is a scholar-led, queer-led, and peer-reviewed diamond open-access academic book publisher of titles in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design fields. A full catalog of their titles can be found here. Punctum’s titles
Health Sciences Librarian Laurel Scheinfeld won the 2023 State University of New York Librarians Association (SUNYLA) Excellence in Scholarship Award at this year’s conference. This honor is granted to a SUNYLA member who has published a particularly impactful research article. Laurel was nominated for co-authoring the article, “A Systematic Review
Five members of University Libraries attended the Chinese American Librarians Association’s (CALA) Northeast Chapter’s Spring conference, themed: “Chinese Librarianship in the Post-Pandemic Future: Personal Growth and Professional Development” in April 2023. Michael Huang, SUNY Distinguished Librarian and Director of Global Library Initiatives presented with Visiting Scholar, Yuanming Song, from Fudan
November is Native American Heritage Month, an annual time to commemorate and reaffirm Indigenous cultural legacies and histories. Celebrate with five library resources about Indigeneity and Indigenous peoples. For more ways to celebrate, visit the official Native American Heritage Month website for events: https://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/ 1 – Art That Changed America: Indigenous
A new installation at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. features a rare pin-back button from Special Collections, SBU Libraries. The “I Am a Civil Rights Marcher” button commemorates the August 28, 1963 historic “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” near the Lincoln Memorial. The 1963 March
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (October 11th) with a selection of some of the Libraries’ resources on Indigeneity. Indigenous Peoples Day is a holiday on the second Monday of October that celebrates and honors Indigenous peoples, histories, and cultures.
