The University Libraries proudly announces its exciting Fall 2016 Writers Series. Please register and join us for an hour of diverse, dynamic talks by our esteemed Stony Brook faculty. Tuesday, 9/27: Mary Jo Bona & Adrienne Munich (register here) Mary Jo Bona: “Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary” Adrienne
SBU Libraries will hold a workshop for liaison librarians on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at the Wang Center. There will be a presentation by Tracy Gabridge, who is the Associate Director for Research and Instructional Services at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries. During the MIT Libraries reorganization from
Mark Twain is credited with observing, “everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” At Stony Brook University Libraries, that is simply not the case. For our researchers, climate data is available from many resources. For instance, data from NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is
Robert Cushman Murphy (1887-1973) was an early conservationist who concentrated his efforts on Long Island and internationally. He conducted research on DDT, which influenced Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and participated in lawsuits to ban the aerial spraying of the pesticide. Dr. Murphy’s papers, research notes, and slides/photographs are accessible for
While dealing with the difficulties of a winter day, it seems hopeful to look for a positive prediction from a groundhog, but in actuality, groundhogs are not the most reliable forecasters of weather outcomes. The National Climatic Data Center has been studiously tracking groundhog predictions and found they are correct
The Stony Brook University Libraries and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS) announced the online, re-issue in digital format of the school’s well established and respected, published research — Special Reports and Working Papers series. Both are available online, accessible via University Libraries digital collections. To access
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; its electronic journal collections support a wide array of research. MUSE is a source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating. Go
The Stony Brook University Libraries and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SOMAS) announces the online, re-issue in digital format of the school’s well established and respected, published research — Special Reports and Working Papers series. Previously published in bound paper format, both series are now available in digitized format
For a long time, due to budget restrictions, we were unable to purchase new books other than the ones for class reserve requested by the faculty of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Finally this year, we are able to order some books and we ordered around one hundred marine science books published in recent
