Global Initiatives

Michael Huang, Coordinator of the Office of Global Library Initiatives and Health Sciences Librarian, organized and presented a panel titled “The librarian in the transitional time: Exploration and practice in academic libraries in the United States” at the 2014 Chinese Library Annual Conference, October 9-11, 2014, Beijing, China. The panelists

Constantia Constantinou, Dean of Stony Brook University Libraries, made a keynote speech titled “The future of research libraries: Challenge, collaboration, opportunity” at the 2nd International Conference on Leadership and Innovative Management in Academic Libraries in the Age of New Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 3-6, 2014. The conference was

Students from Gezhi High School visited Stony Brook University from August 11 to August 18, 2014. They were working on five research topics ranging from engineering science to social science. A small group of five students were working on a project, a comparative study of user friendly design in Chinese

Constantia Constantinou, Dean of University Libraries, was invited to present “The future of research libraries: Challenge, collaboration, opportunity” at the Shanghai Normal University Library, Shanghai, China on June 6, 2014. Michael Huang, Librarian from the SBU Health Sciences Library served as a consecutive translator from English to Mandarin and vice

Constantia Constantinou, Dean of Stony Brook University Libraries, presented “When disaster strikes: The critical importance of effective communication and teamwork” at the International Conference in Qualitative and Quantitative Measures in Libraries (QQML), May 27-30, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey. She paid a visit to the Ecumenical Patriarch Archives at Fanar, Istanbul when

Michael Huang, Librarian at the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library, organized and chaired a panel titled, “Exploration and practice of innovative services in U.S. libraries” at the 2013 Chinese Library Annual Conference, November 7-9, 2013, Shanghai, China. The speakers included: Margaret Donnellan Todd, County of Los Angeles Public Library;

Michael Huang, Health Sciences Librarian, presented “New development in open access to biomedical literature” at Guangxi Medical University Library, Nanning, China, on November 6, 2013. From left, Professor Xiaomin Wei, Guangxi Medical University Library Director and Michael Huang

Dean Constantinou had the pleasure of meeting Ioannis (Yiannis) A. Economides, SBU Alum and an Engineer in November 2014. “I met with Yiannis in Nicosia for coffee. We had a wonderful exchange of information and memories from his years in the early ’80s at SBU. Yiannis is an Industrial Extension