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Zotero Now Offers 100 MB of Free Storage for PDFs, Images, etc.

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:10:00 +0000

Zotero now offers 100 mb of cloud-based storage for PDFs, images, screenshots, and other files free of charge. Additional storage space can be purchased if needed.

For more information check Zotero's storage faq.

If you are not already familiar with it, Zotero is a free bibliographic management tool for researchers.

Library Catalog Unavailable from 11 - 11:30 am on 12/23

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:45:00 +0000

STARS, the library catalog will be unavailable for approximately one half hour on Wednesday, December 23rd while a certificate is being updated. If you need to search library holdings during that time, please use worldcat.org. Please contact the library at 631-632-7110 if you need assistance.

Happy Holidays!

noreply@blogger.com (Darren Chase) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:58:00 +0000

Happy Holidays :)

Presidential Opening of the North Reading Room Student Collaborative Learning Area (CoLA)

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:16:00 +0000

Date: Friday, December 18, 2009

Time: 3:00pm

Location: Second floor of the North Reading Room, Melville Library

Contact Information: (631) 632-7148 or 632-2775

The University Libraries and the Teaching, Learning + Technology (TLT) department cordially invite you to attend the official opening of the first CoLA (Collaborative Learning Area) facility located in the North Reading Room in Melville Library. President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr. will be present to officially open this innovative learning space. Please come by and join us or visit the area at your convenience to see the future of informal learning spaces at Stony Brook.

EXTENDED LIBRARY HOURS, DECEMBER 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Darren Chase) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:51:00 +0000

Central Reading Room, December 11 - 20

Monday - Thursday until 4:00am

Friday & Saturday until Midnight

North Reading Room, December 11 - 17

Monday - Thursday until 4:00am

Friday & Saturday until Midnight

Circulation Services including Reserve Material

will not be extended!

THE RULES:

Uniformed guards will help maintain a clean, quiet, and safe study space:

SBU IDs are required to enter
the Reading Room
after midnight Sun. – Thurs.
and after 8 p.m. Fri. – Sat.

The No Food and Drink Policy (except bottled water)

All Libraries Closed November 26 - 28

noreply@blogger.com (Darren Chase) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:08:00 +0000

All Main Campus Libraries and the Southampton branch will be closed for Thanksgiving break, beginning Wednesday, 5:00pm. Thursday, November 26 through Saturday, November 28 libraries will be closed. Main Campus and Southampton libraries resume regular hours Sunday, November 29.

Related links:
University Libraries hours

Winter regular and intersession hours

Time to Return or Renew Library Materials

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Graduate Students, Faculty, Management Confidential, Emeritus and Professional staff who currently have borrowed library material due Dec. 21, 2009, from the Main, Music and/or the Science/Engineering Library, are urged to return or renew at this time.

For those renewing, the new due date will be May 18, 2010. Items already renewed 3 times, must be returned and may then be checked out again.

For information on how to renew online via STARS/OPAC, please go to the URL below. To renew in person, please present your ID card to service desk staff. It is not necessary to bring the material into the library in order to have them renewed. Overdue material can not be renewed. There are no phone renewals.

http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/circulation/borrowing.html

Census 2010 Workshop on 11/17 at 1 PM

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:20:00 +0000

Is your native language English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Russian or one of 52 other languages? This workshop will cover what is collected as basic Census information and how this Census differs from all previous ones. Come find out:

How to find population data and other statistics for your research
How the Census and the American Community Survey differ from each other
How government education and other grant money is distributed according to Decennial (every 10 years) Census results?
How private is the information you provide? What if I'm not a citizen? Where do students fill out the Census?

Date: Tuesday, November 17 @ 1 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Register at http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

Research 911! Workshop on 11/16 @ 1 PM

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:05:00 +0000

Help!! Thought you could bang that paper out no problem, but you have more questions than answers? Bring your questions to this unstructured workshop and have them answered. Learn how to:

Locate that article you can’t find but really want
Find more and better sources for your paper
Correctly cite material used

Date: Monday, November 16 @ 1 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Just drop in or register @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men on 11/11

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:37:00 +0000

Melville Library Author Series: Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men featuring Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology.

To a growing list of books about the myths and mysteries of American boys and young males, Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, adds this deft exploration grounded in research. Published by HarperCollins, Guyland is based on more than 400 interviews over a four-year span with young men, ages 16–26. "Michael Kimmel's Guyland could save the humanity of many young men—and the sanity of their friends and parents—by explaining the forces behind a newly extended adolescence. With accuracy and empathy, he names the problem and offers compassionate bridges to adulthood."- Gloria Steinem

Date: Wednesday, November 11 @ 12:45 PM
Location: Melville Library, 2nd Floor, Javits Room

Graduate Level Education and Teaching Workshop on 11/11 @ 1 PM

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:27:00 +0000

Research Skills for Graduate Level Education and Teaching

If any of the statements below sound familiar then you need to attend this workshop.

"I've been attending this school for 5 years but I've never been up to the stacks. Can you help me?"
"I'm starting to write my graduate thesis and I'm not sure where to start. Can you help me?"
"My professor gave back my thesis outline and told me that I have to use only scholarly sources. How do I find those"?
"Can you please read over my paper to check it for spelling and grammar".

In this workshop you will learn how to:

Narrow down your subject areas
Do a review of the literature in your field
Find books in STARS by various methods
Use the library's education subject guide databases to find articles
Do a super search of the above databases with a federated search engine called Galaxy
Find other library resources such as e-books, research guides by subject area

Date: Wednesday, November 11 @ 1 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Register at http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm .

Advanced EndNote Workshop on 11/10 @ Noon

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:23:00 +0000

For those who are using EndNote already, but have specific questions, or want to learn how to take advantage of ALL the advanced features and customization options. EndNote Advanced offers:

Customize filters and output styles
Attaching PDF documents, objects and images
Footnotes and figure numbering
Creating term lists and a traveling library

Date: Tuesday, November 10 @ 12 PM (1.5 hours)
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Register at http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm .

The Mysteries of Microfilm Revealed! on 11/9

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:51:00 +0000

Stony Brook Library contains over two million books, but did you know it also has over 4 million items on microfilm and related formats? And much of the material is unavailable on the internet or in online databases. Collections include historic newspapers from Long Island and around the world, O.S.S. intelligence reports from WW II, 16th century documents from Spanish colonies in Mexico, pamphlets from the Women’s Movement, underground papers from the 1960s, NASA reports, Four Centuries of Spanish and German Drama, and much, much more! You’ll never be afraid of microfilm again… In this session you will learn:

Just what is microfilm anyway?! And is it the same as microfiche?

Some of the interesting collections available at the library

How to locate microforms using STARS and print indexes & guides

How to find that exact roll of microfilm you want

How to print from microfilm, microfiche and the other formats

Date: Monday, November 9 @ 5:30 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Register @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

Image courtesy of OSU Archives @ Flickr.com

WorldCat: The World at Your Fingertips on 11/4

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:40:00 +0000

What if there was a catalog that you could use to search almost all the books, DVDs, articles, music and other materials in all the libraries in the world? There is! With WorldCat you can:

Find materials in libraries near you

One-click order materials via SBU Libraries interlibrary loan

Create and share lists of items

Build bibliographies for your research

Integrate your WorldCat searching in Facebook and Firefox

Date: Wednesday, November 4 @ 1 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Register @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

SciFinder Web Workshop on 11/4 @ 2:30 PM

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:35:00 +0000

This session will demonstrate how to use one of the premier online databases for searching chemical information, SciFinder. Learn how to:

Create a SciFinder Web account

Search for articles, structures and reactions

Set up automatic search alerts

Date: Wednesday, November 4 @ 2:30 PM (1.5 hours)
Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, Classroom A

Turn Your Learn On Workshop on 11/3 @ 1:30 PM

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:18:00 +0000

Turn Your Learn On: YouTube, iTunes and Other Web Multimedia for Researchers

Sure YouTube is a lot of fun, but have you ever used it for a class presentation or research project? For the arts, sciences and everything in between there are riches of multimedia content available online. Tap into this wealth of resources to include multimedia in your research and classwork. In this workshop learn:

How to search for multimedia content online -- including images, video and audio
How to cite online multimedia in your research

How to insert multimedia in a presentation and on Blackboard

Web tools for organizing and sharing media content

Date: Tuesday, November 3 @ 1:30 PM

Location: Southampton and Online

Horror Movies Available At The Library

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:45:00 +0000

Just in time for Halloween, here's a select list of horror DVDs available right here at the library. DVDs can be checked out for 7 days and in most cases can be renewed online. The DVD collection is located in the Main Stacks on the 3rd floor of the Melville Library.

Artsy Horror
Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face) - DVD 1967
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary - DVD 939
Gothic - DVD 312
Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages - DVD 364
Onibaba - DVD 1961

Giallo
Suspiria - DVD 2154
Deep Red - DVD 2104
The Bird with Crystal Plumage - DVD 2153

Vampires
Dracula 3000 - DVD 899
Dracula - DVD 1023
Horror of Dracula - DVD 891
Bram Stoker's Dracula - DVD 890
Vampyr - DVD 332
Cronos - DVD 1632
Interview with the Vampire - DVD 889
Nosferatu the Vampyre - DVD 42

Zombies
Night of the Living Dead - DVD 313
Planet Terror - DVD 2252
Land of the Dead - DVD 1150
Shaun of the Dead - DVD 1288

Old School
Cat People/The Curse of the Cat People - DVD 874
I Walked with a Zombie - DVD 874

Miscellaneous
The Dead Zone - DVD 2357
Carnival of Souls - DVD 352
The Amityville Horror - DVD 421
A Nightmare on Elm Street - DVD 877
The Hills Have Eyes - DVD 879

Reminder: Masten on Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-19th Century NY, October 28 @ 12:45

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:18:00 +0000

Melville Library Author Series: Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York featuring April F. Masten, Associate Professor of History. Mary Hallock made what seems like an audacious move for a nineteenth-century young woman. She became an artist. She was not alone. Forced to become self-supporting by financial panics and civil war, thousands of young women moved to New York City between 1850 and 1880 to pursue careers as professional artists. In her latest book Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York, April F. Masten, Associate Professor of History, recaptures the unfamiliar cultural landscape in which spirited young women, daring social reformers, and radical artisans succeeded in reuniting art and industry.

Date: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 at 12:45 p.m.
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)

Zotero Workshop on 10/28

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Empower Your Browser With Zotero

Zotero is a free browser plug-in for Firefox that allows users to collect, manage and cite research sources. Zotero is platform independent and doesn't discriminate based on institutional affiliation. It is a web-based application that allows access to your library from anywhere. Learn how to:

Install Zotero

Import bibliographic data into Zotero

Create collections and sub-collections

Use Zotero to create a bibliography

Date: Wednesday, October 28 @ 1:30 PM
Location: Classroom A, 1st Floor, Melville Library

Registration @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

You can download Zotero from zotero.org.

Southampton Library Workshops on 10/27 and 10/28

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:13:00 +0000

Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Basic Skills

Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote X2, a bibliographic management software program, this task just became much easier. In this workshop learn:

How to create an EndNote Library

How to download results from a literature search into EndNote

How to organize your EndNote Library

How to insert your references into a MS Word document

How to format your bibliography

Tuesday, October 27 @ 2:30 PM (1.5 hours) at Chancellor's Hall (Southampton)

Research Skills Workshop

You have a 15 page paper due and don’t know where to begin. In this workshop, learn how to:

Get started doing research

Narrow your topic

Where to look for information (books, articles, and websites)

Use subject headings and keywords

Evaluate sources and create a bibliography

Date: Wednesday, October 28 @ 11 AM at Chancellor's Hall (Southampton)

Register @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

Using EndNote and PubMed Workshop on 10/27

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:53:00 +0000

This workshop will cover the basics of the EndNote bibliographic management program with an emphasis on using the tool with PubMed. In this workshop learn:

How to create an EndNote Library

How to download results from a PubMed literature search into EndNote

How to organize your EndNote Library

How to insert your references into a MS Word document

How to format your bibliography

Date: Tuesday, October 27 @ 2:30 PM
Location: Classroom A, 1st Floor, Melville Library, West Campus

Register @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

Get Your Learn On: Web Research 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:19:00 +0000

Web research is like juggling dynamite: done right it's spectacular, done wrong it blows up in your face. Effective Web research requires training and knowledge of select tools and resources. Learn how to do it right:

• 10 rules for effective Web research
• Tools and applications for organizing and sharing research online
• Free online bibliographic tools
• Online research communities
• Top 5 Web research mistakes

Date: Friday, October 23 @ 10:30 AM
Location: Chancellor's Hall (Southampton), Computer Classroom

Register online at http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/index.html.

Extra! Extra! Become an Expert at Finding New & Historic Newspaper Articles!

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:14:00 +0000

This session examines ways to find current and historical articles in newspapers. We'll look at online indexes and collections of digitized newspapers, as well as explore old-fashioned ways to dig in the newspaper archives. In this workshop, you will:

Become familiar with the odd nature of newspaper indexing
Effectively search online newspaper indexes
Effectively use non-online resources for locating older articles
Find, display, and print articles from the library's online newspaper collections
Find, display, and copy articles from the library's microformat collection of newspapers

Date: Thursday, October 22 @ 2 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Register @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

Image courtesy of Alex Barth @ Flickr.

Research Skills for Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies on 10/20 @ 12 PM

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:47:00 +0000

This workshop will focus on the skills needed to do advanced research in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Learn:

Where to find information (books, articles, and websites)

Which resources are best for your subject area

About the strengths of Stony Brook's collection

How to use subject headings and keywords

Date: Tuesday, October 20 @ 12 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, Classroom A

Empower Your Browser with Zotero on 10/20 @ 7 PM Online

noreply@blogger.com (Melville Library) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:16:00 +0000

Install Zotero

Import bibliographic data into Zotero

Create collections and sub-collections

Use Zotero to create a bibliography

Date: Tuesday, October 20 @ 7 PM

Location: Online @ https://meeting.sinc.stonybrook.edu/library