The Screen Porch

Reserving Group Study Booths in the CoLA (2nd Floor NRR)

2010-05-11T15:12:00.000-04:00

Reserving Group Study Booths in the CoLA (2nd Floor NRR)
Online: http://cola.sinc.stonybrook.edu
Phone: 632-5783
In Person: CoLA Consultant's Desk

Newspaper Research Workshop on 4/15 @ 3 PM

2010-04-14T12:15:00.006-04:00

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

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, April 15 @ 3 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Register for the workshop.

Image courtesy of ShironekoEuro on Flickr.

Libraries Closed on Saturday April 3rd for Spring Break

2010-03-31T11:11:00.002-04:00

The University Libraries are closed on Saturday, April 3rd for Spring Break. The Central Reading Room, North Reading Room, and Main Circulation will reopen on Sunday, April 4th at 2 PM. For more information check the Library Hours page.

Workshop: Using the Internet for Historical Research on April 7

2010-03-31T10:50:00.007-04:00

Using the Internet for Historical Research

More and more valuable historical information can now be found on the internet, especially primary source material being digitized by libraries and research institutions around the world. This workshop will highlight some of the most interesting web sites and web tools, and discuss search methods to help you find quality historical information online. Learn about:

History Web Sites
Major Digital and Audio/Visual Collections

Historic Newspaper Collections

Google Books and other Online Book Collections

Domain Searches and Other Advanced Searching

Creating a Google Custom Search

Wikipedia as a way of finding Online Resources

Date: April 7 @ 2PM

Location: SBS Building, 3rd floor SINC Site

Image courtesy of Robert of Fairfax on Flickr

Workshop: Beyond Blackboard

2010-03-04T09:15:00.002-05:00

Beyond Blackboard there are collaborative Web tools and networks for enhancing group work, sharing content and managing projects. In this workshop learn:

• How to create and mange groups on the Web using PBWorks, Google Groups and more
• Tips and tools for online group work
• How to share online content and research, including using Google Docs
• Where researchers and scholars share links and build communities online, including Connotea and LinkedIn

Date: Thursday, March 4 @ 1 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, Classroom A

Register for Beyond Blackboard

Melville Library Closing @ Noon Today Due to Weather

2010-02-26T10:25:00.005-05:00

Update: The Melville Library is officially closing at noon today due to weather conditions.

The North Reading Room may be open until as late as 5 PM depending on the weather and availability of staff. Call 631-632-7148 to check before coming in.

Classes Cancelled - North Reading Room Currently Open

2010-02-26T10:10:00.002-05:00

The University has cancelled classes today (Feb. 26) due to the weather.

The North Reading Room in the Melville Library is currently open. Please call 631-632-7148 to confirm the NRR is still open before coming in as changes in the weather may result in a change of hours.

Distinguished Student Employee Award - It's About Us Campaign

2010-02-22T15:01:00.004-05:00

Find out how you can help fund the University Libraries Distinguished Student Employee Award and help the library's student workers.

Citations Workshop on 2/16 Cancelled Due to Weather

2010-02-16T17:03:00.002-05:00

Tonight's Citation Skills workshop has been cancelled due to the weather.

The workshop is also being offered online on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 7 PM. If you would like to join that session, visit https://meeting.sinc.stonybrook.edu/library and sign in with your NetID and password, if you have one, or as a guest.

If you need help ASAP, the library offers one sheet handouts on APA and MLA styles.

The website for the Online Writing Lab at Prudue University offers comprehensive help on APA, MLA and Chicago. The information is easy to read and understand, and covers formatting a paper, in text citations, and the References or Works Cited list. They cover a wide variety of
scenarios and source types, including multiple authors, websites without a date, scholarly articles from a library database, blogs, television programs, etc.

One-on-one sessions can also be scheduled. Contact Fiona.Grady@stonybrook.edu to arrange an individual session.

Workshops This Week: Citation Skills, WorldCat and EndNote @ the HSC

2010-02-15T11:49:00.004-05:00

The library is offering the following workshops this week:

WorldCat: The World @ Your Fingertips

Wednesday, February 17 @ 3:30 PM - Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Citation Skills for Non-Traditional Students

Tuesday, February 16 @ 7 PM - Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Wednesday, February 17 @ 7 PM - Online @ https://meeting.sinc.stonybrook.edu/library

Managing Your Research Using EndNote - Basic Skills

Thursday, February 18 @ 1 PM - Health Sciences Library, HSC, Classroom 2

Check out the Spring 2010 Workshops page for more information and registration.

Library Closed Today Feb. 10

2010-02-10T08:03:00.001-05:00

The Melville Library and branches are closed for today due to snow.

Wednesday Feb. 10 Classes Cancelled

2010-02-09T21:24:00.001-05:00

Wednesdays classes cancelled due to the weather. See http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/emergency/advisories.shtml for more information.

Census 2010 Workshop Rescheduled

2010-02-09T18:23:00.002-05:00

The Census 2010 workshops schedule for February 10th has been rescheduled due to the weather. The new date for the workshop is March 3rd @ 1 PM.

For more information see http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

Library Tour on Tuesday, Feb. 9 @ 2:30 PM

2010-02-08T13:00:00.002-05:00

Take a tour of the Melville Library's main public service areas. Learn about our collections and services and get some freebies while you're here. Meet us @ the Central Reading Room, Melville Library. All tours run about 30 minutes.

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

Census 2010 Workshop on 2/10 @ 12 PM

2010-02-08T12:55:00.001-05:00

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?

Library Tour on Feb. 4 @ 10:30 AM

2010-02-02T10:48:00.002-05:00

Research Skills for Non-Traditional Students Online Workshop on 2/3 @ 7 PM

2010-02-02T10:30:00.002-05:00

Been out of school for a while and feeling lost? Working and going to school, and pressed for the time needed to do research? Learn how to:

Access Stony Brook University resources from off-campus

Use research databases to find scholarly articles online

Explore the library’s collection of electronic books and reference material

Use Suffolk Web and WorldCat to find resources close to home

This workshop will be held online using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro @ https://meeting.sinc.stonybrook.edu/library on Wednesday, Feb. 3 @ 7 PM.

Library Tour on Friday, Jan. 29 @ 1:30 PM

2010-01-26T14:55:00.001-05:00

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

2010-01-07T18:10:00.004-05:00

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

2009-12-23T10:45:00.002-05:00

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!

2009-12-21T09:58:00.002-05:00

Happy Holidays :)

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

2009-12-15T17:16:00.001-05:00

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

2009-12-10T20:51:00.006-05:00

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

2009-11-20T10:08:00.002-05:00

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

2009-11-19T15:38:00.001-05:00

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

2009-11-12T10:20:00.002-05:00

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

2009-11-12T10:05:00.004-05:00

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

2009-11-10T10:37:00.002-05:00

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

2009-11-09T14:27:00.003-05:00

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

2009-11-09T14:23:00.002-05:00

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

2009-11-06T15:51:00.003-05:00

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

2009-11-03T10:40:00.004-05:00

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

2009-11-03T10:35:00.002-05:00

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

2009-11-03T10:18:00.003-05:00

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

2009-10-28T15:45:00.007-04:00

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

2009-10-27T17:18:00.005-04:00

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

2009-10-26T14:26:00.003-04:00

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

2009-10-26T14:13:00.001-04:00

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

2009-10-26T13:53:00.004-04:00

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

2009-10-19T17:19:00.003-04:00

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!

2009-10-19T14:14:00.004-04:00

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

2009-10-19T13:47:00.002-04:00

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

2009-10-19T11:16:00.005-04:00

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

Melville Library Authors Series: April F. Masten on October 28 @ 12:45

2009-10-19T11:08:00.005-04:00

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)

Mac Users Online Workshop 10/19

2009-10-09T16:29:00.003-04:00

Are you a Mac or PC? In this session Mac users will learn about a number of applications and techniques to optimize your library Web experience:

Mac browsers and plug-ins for an enriching online library experience
Bibliographic management tools for the Mac
Mac and cross-platform messaging apps
Microsoft Office (and MS Office alternatives) for the Mac

Date: Monday, October 19 @ 1:30 PM
Location: Online

For more information, register @ http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.htm.

Turn Your Learn On: YouTube, iTunes and Other Web Multimedia for Researchers Workshop 10/15

2009-10-09T16:25:00.002-04:00

• 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: Thursday, October 15 @ 12 PM

Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, classroom A

EndNote for Chemists Workshop on 10/14

2009-10-09T16:19:00.003-04:00

This workshop will focus on exporting citations from chemistry databases into EndNote . Learn how to:

• Create an EndNote library.

• Import citations from SciFinder Scholar and Crossfire Beilstein/Gmelin.

• Attach PDF documents to EndNote citations.

• Format a bibliography in Word using "Cite While You Write".

Date: Wednesday, October 14 @ 1:30 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, classroom A

Library Tips for Freshmen Workshop at Southampton on 10/13

2009-10-09T16:00:00.004-04:00

Feeling stressed by the amount of time you need to spend working on assignments? Having trouble getting assignments completed on time? Find out how to make your research more productive while reducing the time spent on it. Learn:

• Where to look for the information you need

• How to find scholarly articles quickly and easily

• How to get help formatting citations and bibliographies

Date: Tuesday, October 13 @ 11 am

Location: Chancellor's Hall (Southampton), Computer Classroom

EndNote Workshop at HSC on 10/8

2009-10-02T11:22:00.003-04:00

Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Basic Skills @ HSC

Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote, 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.

Date: Thursday, October 8 @ 1 PM
Location: Health Sciences Library (HSC), Classroom 2

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

Xtreme Googling Workshop on 10/8

2009-10-02T11:18:00.003-04:00

So you thought you knew Google? Watch a librarian reveal some of the secret powers of this amazing search engine. See Google challenge scholarship – and lose! Watch as Google redefines the law! Go places you never dreamed were possible sitting down! Discover answers for which there are no questions! In this workshop learn how to:

• Find Historical Images and Videos

• Discover the Magic Of Google Docs

• Create your own search engines

• Explore the Magic World of Google Maps & Earth

• Use Google Books

• About other Google Geekery

Date: Thursday, October 8 @ 6 PM

Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

Library Tour on 10/7

2009-10-02T11:06:00.005-04:00

Take a tour of the Melville Library's main public service areas. Learn about our collections and services and get some freebies while you're here. Meet us @ the Central Reading Room, Melville Library. Tour runs about 30 minutes.

Date: Wednesday, October 7 @ 1:30 PM

Get Your Learn On: Web Research 2.0

2009-10-02T11:04:00.004-04:00

• 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: Wednesday, October 7 @ 11:30 AM

Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, Classroom A

WorldCat Workshop at Southampton

2009-10-02T10:58:00.002-04:00

WorldCat: The World at Your Fingertips

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: Tuesday, October 6 at 2:30 PM

Location: Chancellor's Hall (Southampton), Computer Classroom

Research Skills Workshop Online

2009-10-02T10:52:00.002-04:00

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: Tuesday, October 6 @ 7 PM
Location: Online. Details will be emailed to registrants.

Research Skills for Freshmen Workshop on 10/2

2009-09-23T17:01:00.003-04:00

• Where to look for the information you need
• How to find scholarly articles quickly and easily
• How to get help formatting citations and bibliographies

Friday, October 2 @ 12:30 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st Floor, Classroom A

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

EndNote Web Basics Workshop on 10/1

2009-09-23T12:36:00.003-04:00

This workshop will demonstrate the basics of the web version of EndNote. In this session you will learn how to:

• Create an EndNote Web library.
• Import citations from online databases into EndNote Web.
• Format a bibliography in Word using "Cite While You Write".
• Transfer citations to and from the software version of EndNote.

Date: Thursday, October 1 @ 2 PM

Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, Classroom A

Beyond Blackboard: Web Tools for Group Work

2009-09-23T12:30:00.008-04:00

Group work is a fact of Stony Brook University life. Beyond Blackboard there are other collaborative Web tools and networks for enhancing group work, sharing content and managing projects. In this workshop learn:

• How to create and mange groups on the Web using wikis, blogs and more
• Tips and tools for online group work
• How to share online content and research, including using Google Docs
• Using collaborative networks for scholarship
• Where researchers and scholars share links and build communities online, including Connotea and LinkedIn

Date: Wednesday, September 30 @ 1 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, Classroom A

Or

Date: Thursday, October 1 @ 1 PM
Location: Chancellor's Hall (Southampton), Computer Classroom

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

Galaxy: One Stop Searching Workshop on 9/29

2009-09-23T12:15:00.004-04:00

The library's new combined search system, Galaxy, allows you to search over 100 library resources simultaneously. Learn how to use Galaxy to quickly and effectively locate the information you need. In this workshop, you will:

• Understand the power of Galaxy as a research and discovery tool

• Construct effective and productive searches in Galaxy

• Navigate from citations in Galaxy to the full-text available elsewhere

• Email and print information from Galaxy

Date: Tuesday, September 29 @ 12:30 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, Classroom A

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

9/30 The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

2009-09-23T11:57:00.002-04:00

Melville Library Author Series: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg featuring Robert P. Crease, Professor of Philosophy.

Robert Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history in The Great Equations. Was Nobel laureate Richard Feynman really joking when he called Maxwell's electromagneticequations the most significant event of the nineteenth century? How did Newton's law of gravitation influence young revolutionaries? Why has Euler's formula been called "God's equation," and why did a mysterious ecoterrorist make it his calling card? What role do betrayal, insanity, and suicide play in the second law of thermodynamics? Crease explains the significance of each of these formulas for science and, in brief "interludes" between chapters, explores the "journeys" these scientists took "from ignorance to knowledge," and the "social lives" of their theories-their impact on the larger culture.

Date: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 at 12:45 p.m.
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)

Workshop: Research Resources for Graduate Students in History

2009-09-23T11:52:00.000-04:00

Graduate Students in History have tremendous resources available to them through the library and on the open web. Find out what’s available through the library’s online databases, the internet, in print, and in microforms, as well as how to access material in other libraries. In this session, you will learn about:

Online indexes and journal collections available through the Library

Online collections of primary sources available through the Library

Using the internet for historical research

Major print resources available through the library

Vast collections of research material in microforms at the library

Stony Brook’s Archives & Special Collections

Access to resources at other libraries in the region

Date: Thursday, September 24 @ 1 PM
Location: Melville Library, 1st floor, Classroom A

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

Free Workshop: You've Been Cited! on Sept. 21

2009-09-15T14:48:00.003-04:00

In this workshop, learn how to:

• Find who is citing your work
• Calculate your H-index, a measure of scientific productivity and impact
• Find journal impact factors and learn what that number represents
• Set up citation alerts and find cited reference data using the Web of Science

Date: Monday, September 21 @ 1:30 PM
Location: Melville Library, First Floor, Classroom A

Register and see a list of all our workshops.

Check out the Melville Library on Sept. 16 @ 6 PM

2009-09-11T15:36:00.002-04:00

Research Skills for Non-Traditional Students Workshop

2009-09-11T15:03:00.003-04:00

Been out of school for a while and feeling lost?
Do you have students who seem anxious about the research process?
Working and going to school, and pressed for the time needed to do research?

The library is offering a free workshop to help! Learn how to: start researching a subject, access Stony Brook University resources from off-campus, explore the library's collection of electronic books and reference material, use Suffolk Web and WorldCat to find resources close to home, and more.

Wednesday, September 16 @ 7 PM Online

All library workshops are free and open to students, faculty and staff.

For more information and registration visit www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/workshops.

Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz & American Culture

2009-09-11T14:43:00.003-04:00

Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture featuring Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English.

Hotter Than That, the latest book by Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, is a cultural history of the trumpet from its origins in ancient Egypt to its role in royal courts and on battlefields, and ultimately to its stunning appropriation by great jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis. "This is the smartest book about a single musical instrument that I've ever read. Like Miles Davis, who attended Juilliard and apprenticed with Charlie Parker, Krin Gabbard turns his immense learning into lines that are quick, witty, and irresistibly alluring." - Robert G. O'Meally, founder of The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University

Part of the Melville Library Author Series.
Date: Wednesday, September 23 at 12:45 p.m.
Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)
Sponsor: University Libraries.

Take a Tour of the Library!

2009-08-27T14:29:00.002-04:00

Friday, September 4 @ 12 PM

Thursday, September 10 @ 2 PM

Wednesday, September 16 @ 6:00 PM

Monday, September 21 @ 1 PM

Tuesday, September 29 @ 11 AM

Wednesday, October 7@ 1:30 PM

Fall 2009 Library Workshops List Available

2009-08-27T14:23:00.003-04:00

Featured workshops for Fall 2009 include:

Library Tips for Freshmen

Library Tips & Tools for Mac Users

Research Resources for Graduate Students in History

Empower Your Browser with Zotero

SciFinder Web

The Mysteries of Microfilm Revealed!

Research Skills for Graduate Level Education and Teaching

Research Skills for Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies

Census 2010: Counting Everyone Once — and Only Once — and In the Right Place

and a variety of EndNote workshops including Using EndNote and PubMed

Check out all our current offerings and register , or contact Janet Clarke to set up an instruction to meet your specific needs.

STARS Catalog Outage This Weekend (8/7 - 8/8)

2009-08-05T16:06:00.004-04:00

STARS, the library catalog, is undergoing a software update this weekend and will be unavailable from Fiday, August 7, 2009 @ 5 PM until Saturday, August 8th @ 4 PM.

If you need to search the library's holdings during that time, please use either WorldCat or the SUNY Union Catalog.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

2009 University Libraries Distinguished Student Employee Award Recipient - Nancy Sciacca

2009-07-10T16:22:00.004-04:00

Congratulations Nancy on being one of this year’s Award Recipients, we wish you much success in your future!

Nancy worked in the Department of Circulation Services from September 2007 until her graduation this May 2009. Nancy was a valuable part of the Circulation Services team, and she was entrusted with responsibilities not usually given to student staff, because of her exceptional work, her eagerness to learn, her attention to detail and her dedication to her job. Nancy is the only library student staff in the history of the library to be nominated for the Thomas Jefferson Award, the Stony Brook University Student Employee of the Year Award, the ALA Galaxy of Stars Student Worker Recognition, the Traveling Star Award (for commuter students) and a recipient of the 2009 University Libraries Distinguished Student Employee Award. This is an accomplishment to be proud of! Nancy obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, with a concentration in social-cultural anthropology. . Nancy loves animals and has a love for cultures, she learned Indian Dancing through friends who also introduced her to their culture. Nancy was a commuter student and often faced bad weather driving conditions and traffic snarls yet she was never late for work. Nancy often helped train new student staff and she also was excellent with patrons, she was very helpful, provided accurate information, clear instructions and a friendly service at all times. Nancy unknowingly has thrown down the gauntlet for all who follow her, for she has set an example of the model student employee that will prove difficult to match, let alone surpass, she will certainly be missed. Nancy volunteer’s her time at the Radiology Library. Her work was exceptional and she has positively impacted the success of her department. Nancy’s been accepted in St. John’s University and plans to pursue a master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences; her goal is to obtain a position in a library or archives, where she can put her experience to practical use.

2009 University Libraries Distinguished Student Employee Award Winner - Dengfei Yu

2009-07-10T16:18:00.003-04:00

Congratulation Dengfi on being one of this year’s Award Recipients, we wish you much success in your future!

Dengfei was employed in the Interlibrary Loan Department from January 2005 until his graduation this May 2009. He credits I.L.L. with learning the importance of responsibility, punctuality, teamwork and communication; these are skills he will carry with him the rest of his life. Dengfei evolved into an essential part of the I.L.L. team, and will be surly missed. Dengfei majored in biology with a neuroscience track, and will continue his education to Dental School. Dengfei was the treasurer of the Stony Brook Film Club; the film club promotes film making on campus, promoting appreciation of film, film criticism and holds discussions on themes and movie plots, using various clips and film styles. He was an active member of the Pre-dental Society and was involved in several community service events: cancer walks, blood drives, visiting hospitals. He also participated in community service through the Long Island Alliance Church in which he worked with Chinese exchange students attending Farmingdale State College and Stony Brook University whose lives were affected by the Sichuan earthquake in 2008. He volunteered his time to work with handicap children over the break to teach them snowboarding. Dengfei was the undergraduate teaching assistant for Biology 105 and was given the responsibility for a group over 50 students. He was accepted into a research position in the Anesthesiology Department of Stony Brook Medical Center where he was involved in a project that required intense study of both the structure and stereochemistry of morphine and related opioids that evokes analgesia and euphoria to release both acute and chronic pain. He obtained hands on experience in conducting experiments as well as being part of a team which performed pain-relieving operations upon patients. He also, was part of the shadowed a dentist program which helped him acquire his love for dentistry. The person who influenced Dengfei’s life the most was Franklin Delano Roosevelt because he overcame his disabilities, and was able to accomplish so much with his life, this inspired Dengfei to success in his life and overcome life’s obstacles with a never give up attitude. Dengfei plans on becoming a compassionate, dentist, still volunteering and possibly working aboard with the disadvantaged.

Student Staff Pizza Party Photos

2009-07-07T13:07:00.014-04:00

The 6th annual student staff pizza party hosted by the library social events team was a hit! Each year we grow and change but what is unchanging is the library’s appreciation of all the hard work and dedication of our student staff. The luncheon is a wonderful way of the library saying “THANK YOU” for all you do throughout the year! Along with pizza the library faculty/staff contributed salads, soda, fruit, and delicious baked goods to this year’s luncheon. Golden Star stress relievers and SBU Libraries pens/highlighters were given to each student. We also had the pleasure of participating in this years presentation of The Thomas Jefferson Award plaques, and the University Libraries Distinguished Student Employee Award trophies to this year’s award recipients. A long with the food and camaraderie, a good time was had by all.

2009 Thomas Jefferson Award Winner - Daniela Doneva

2009-07-03T14:36:00.002-04:00

Congratulations to 2009 Thomas Jefferson Award Winner, Daniela Doneva.

Daniela has been working in the Music Library as a work study student for the past 3 years; her supervisors rely on her to handle a multitude of tasks. She is wonderful with the patrons and is always very helpful. She is hard working and extremely reliable; she is diligent in both her work and her studies, she will be graduating with a double major in biochemistry and sociology. Daniela has a strong sense of community and spends most of her free time volunteering her services; she volunteers as an adaptive aquatic instructor, teaching children with disabilities how to swim, she also volunteers at the local veterans home, and serves as the treasurer of her residence hall LEG council. Upon graduation Daniela is pursuing a position as a biological scientist; she plans on working on the cellular level in the field of genetics. She will also be continuing her education to obtain a masters degree in biochemistry, and wants to continue for her PhD sometime down the road.

2009 Thomas Jefferson Award Winner - Anthony C. Cooke

2009-07-03T14:26:00.002-04:00

Congratulations to 2009 Thomas Jefferson Award winner, Anthony C. Cooke.

Due to life’s circumstance Anthony dropped out of high school to take a full time job, and after a few years he returned to fulfill his educational goals, completing his GED and transferring to Stony Brook University in 2007, from Alamance Community College. He obtained a job in the library as a federal work study student in the Central Reading Room. Anthony has been very dedicated to his position and he is always reliable and efficient in carrying out his duties. He is enthusiastic to help patrons, patiently researching all possibilities. He takes pride in his job and goes the extra mile in helping patrons; his dedication to his position is outstanding. He would arrive to work early or stay late, and battled the elements to come to work during snow storms to be at the information desk. Anthony graduated this May and will be moving on to doctoral studies; he plans are to be a professor of writing.

Firefox 3.5 Users: Updated Version of LibX Available

2009-07-01T16:15:00.002-04:00

LibX has updated their codebase to work with Firefox 3.5 which resulting in a new version of the Stony Brook University Libraries Edition of LibX. Please note that this version will not update automatically. You must uninstall the old version and then install the new version.

For more information about LibX or to get LibX for IE, check the University Libraries' LibX page.

Managing Your Research Using Endnote - 2 Workshops in July

2009-06-29T16:44:00.007-04:00

The library will be providing two EndNote workshops this summer.

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.

Thursday, July 16, 2009 from 1 - 2:30 pm, HSC Health Science Library, Classroom 1
Tuesday, July 21, 1 - 2:30 pm, Melville Library (West Campus), Classroom A

To register, email fiona.grady@stonybrook.edu. Please provide your first and last name, phone number and email address, and which class you would like to attend.

Browser Plug-ins for Academic Research: Zotero and LibX

2009-05-27T23:03:00.003-04:00

Stop by Classroom A on the first floor of the Melville Library on May 28th at 3 PM to learn more about these free tools for your browser that can increase the effectiveness of your research. These workshops are offered as part of the Innovations in Education Colloquium 2009. For an complete list of offerings visit https://tlt.stonybrook.edu/FacultyServices/FacDev/Conf/Pages/SummerColloquium.aspx

Zotero is a bibliographic management tool that lets you store, management and cite your resources right directly from Firefox. Unlike tools like EndNote or RefWorks, there is no fee and you can take your library with you as you move to other institutions. Zotero automatically detects metadata from library catalogs, databases and certain websites, and allows you to create bibliographies in a variety of style guide formats. An optional plug-in for Word or OpenOffice, creates in-text citations and works cited or references lists based on your in-text citations. For more information, visit www.zotero.org.

LibX is a tool that allows you to search library resources directly from your browser without having to visit the library website. Visit http://www.stonybrook.edu/library/services/instruction/libx.html for more information on features and to download the Stony Brook University Edition.

Online Multimedia for Researchers

2009-05-27T12:14:00.001-04:00

A presentation for the Innovations in Education Colloquium 2009.

Online Multimedia for Researchers

View more OpenOffice presentations from Darren Chase.

Time to Return/Renew Library Material

2009-05-11T09:37:00.001-04:00

Students, Faculty, Management Confidential, Emeritus and Professional staff who currently have borrowed library material due May 19,2009, 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 Dec. 21, 2009. 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

Extended Library Hours May 11th – May 18th

2009-05-08T17:14:00.002-04:00

May 11th – May 18th

The Central and North Reading Rooms will be open:

Sunday – Thursday until 4 a.m.
Friday and Saturday until 12 a.m.

Circulation Services including Reserve Material will not be extended!

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

SBU IDs are required to enter the Reading Rooms

after midnight Sun. – Thurs.

and after 8 p.m. Fri. – Sat.

The No Food and Drink Policy (except bottled water) will be strictly enforced.

See what others have to say about the library collection....

2009-05-05T13:05:00.002-04:00

Check out the recent SBU GradMag article Make Our Library Your Own Theatre by J. J. Zou!

5/13: Melville Author Series presents Dr. Shetal Shah

2009-05-05T10:41:00.003-04:00

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 at 4 p.m.
Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)

Melville Library Author Series: Passport to Illness: Voyages In and Out of Medicine featuring Dr. Shetal Shah, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University Medical Center.

Program: In fourteen distinct narratives, Dr. Shetal Shah outlines in Passport to Illness: Voyages In and Out of Medicine not just the medical cases that make one a physician, but the personal stories, anecdotes, and relationships that each doctor brings to the bedside. From inner-city New York to the streets of Cuba to rural towns in Kenya, he guides you through his unique world, where the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the bedside of a fragile, premature infant in New York are not far apart.

Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library) - Free and Open to All.
Sponsor: University Libraries.

5/13: "Cooking from China’s Fujian Province" special lecture featuring Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman.

2009-05-05T10:36:00.002-04:00

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2009 FROM 12:30 - 2 p.m. at the Charles B. Wang Center, Room 301

"Cooking from China’s Fujian Province" special lecture featuring food historian and scholar Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman. Reception follows with Fujianese food tasting.

Fujian, a province in southeastern China, boasts a distinct culinary tradition that enjoys a thousand year old recorded history but is barely known in the Western world. Dr. Newman's latest book includes fascinating cultural and historical notes and features a collection of 200 easy to follow, authentic recipes that provide the perfect introduction to this unique cuisine. “Through her insightful writing and well-researched recipes, Ms. Newman is casting much-deserved light on the wonderful Fujian cooking and culture. Her scholarly approach and keen eye for detail make this book a joy to read and a real keeper for any library and kitchen.” -- Martin Yan, cookbook author and chef of TV cookery programs

FREE and Open to All.
Sponsored by the University Libraries.

Herstory Archive Launch & Reception 4/20

2009-04-18T15:08:00.003-04:00

Please join us for a reception celebrating Herstory Writers Workshop.

The archives of Herstory and Erika Duncan are being donated to Special Collections of Stony Brook University Libraries. Erika Duncan is the founder of Herstory Writers Workshop, as well as a novelist and essayist whose work many Long Islanders know from her monthly front-page features in the New York Times Long Island Weekly during the 1990s. Herstory Writers Workshop is a community memoir-writing project that provides women from all walks of life with a unique set of tools to help them turn their memories into literary works of art. More than 2000 women on LI have participated in the Herstory project, including women form LI's Latina community and women incarcerated in Suffolk County's prisons.

Additionally, Erika was one of the founders of the Women's Salon, a New York City based network that met for ten years in Erika's Westbeth Apartment. This group gave audience support and serious critical attention to works of writers who were not well known. Emerging works of now-known Feminist writers and artists such as Adrienne Rich, Kate Millet, Susan Griffith, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Olga Broumas, Paula Gunn Allen and Judy Chicago were given early audience exposure there.

Please join us on April 20th for a reception that will include a program of readings will be followed by refreshments.

This event is free and open to the public. Don’t miss this historic event!!

For more information about Herstory, please visit their website at http://www.herstorywriters.org/

Sponsored by the West Campus Chapter of the United University Professions, the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Center for Working Class Life, the Women’s Studies Program, the Wang Center, the School of Social Welfare and Stony Brook University Libraries Special Collections.

Spring Break Hours

2009-04-06T04:04:00.002-04:00

April 6-10, Monday-Friday: ALL LIBRARIES 8:30 am - 5 pm

April 11, Saturday: ALL LIBRARIES CLOSED.

April 12, Sunday: CRR, NRR, CIRCULATION 2 pm – 10 pm. All other libraries closed.

Libraries Hours Phone Service: 632-7160

GeoPDF Workshop on 4/03

2009-03-31T13:28:00.002-04:00

Sharing Spatially with GeoPDFs

Using data and aerial imagery of a Stony Brook University campus (e.g., Stony Brook, Southampton or Manhattan) learn how to:

Manipulate layers, attach files, add comments, apply stamps

Search and display object attributes, and zoom to coordinates

Measure distances and change geographic projections

Hyperlink GeoPDF objects with other PDF documents, such as floor plans or text

Friday, April 3 @ 12 PM (2 hours)
Classroom A, 1st Floor, Melville Library
Register For This Course

3/30 Workshop - Everything Everywhere: an introduction to WorldCat

2009-03-30T14:47:00.002-04:00

Workshop Monday, March 30, 5:30pm, Class A
Everything Everywhere: an Introduction to WorldCat

Search thousands of libraries worldwide
Request items via Interlibrary loan
Create and share resource lists

Everything Everywhere: an introduction to WorldCat

View more presentations from Darren Chase.

Google Earth Workshop on 3/25

2009-03-19T16:14:00.002-04:00

In this workshop, learn how to:

Use the Google Earth user interface and the standard layers

Locate and use third-party geographic data in Google Earth

Create your own map features in the form of points, paths, polygons, and overlays

Add information to your map features such as text, hyperlinks, and photographs

Manipulate simple examples of Keyhole Markup Language (KML)

Wednesday, March 25 @ 1 PM (2 hours)
Classroom A, 1st Floor, Melville Library

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

Advanced EndNote Workshop on 3/24

2009-03-19T16:09:00.002-04:00

Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Advanced Endnote

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

Tuesday, March 24 @ 1 PM (1.5 hours)
Classroom A, 1st Floor, Melville Library

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

Turn Your Learn On: Web Multimedia for Researchers

2009-03-18T16:53:00.003-04:00

LIBRARY WORKSHOP
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1:00pm, Class A
Register @ http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/training/libclasses.nsf/youtube

Sure YouTube is a lot of fun, but have you ever used it for a class presentation or research project? For news (http://nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/), the arts (http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/contents.html), sciences (http://www.sciencemag.org/multimedia/) and everything in between (http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/index.php) 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

MULTIMEDIA SEARCHING

All Media

alltheweb Multimedia (http://www.multimedia.alltheweb.com/ )

CC Search (http://search.creativecommons.org/ )

Audio

AltaVista Audio (http://www.altavista.com/audio/default )

Woonz (http://woonz.com/ )

Yahoo! Audio (http://audio.search.yahoo.com/ )

Images

Clusty (http://images.clusty.com/ )

Google (http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en )

Yahoo! (http://images.search.yahoo.com/)

Video

Google Video (http://video.google.com/ )

Yahoo! Video (http://video.search.yahoo.com/ )

SELECT MULTIMEDIA METASITES

American Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html) from the Library of Congress; historical multimedia digital collections covering all of America’s history

ibiblio (http://www.ibiblio.org/ ) consortium of myriad digital collections, including excellent video and audio

Internet Archive (http://archive.org ) cornucopia of multimedia content, including the exceptional Prelinger Film Archives

iTunes U (http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html) works through iTunes – must have iTunes installed on your computer; online educational multimedia podcasts

ONLINE MULTIMEDIA COMMUNITIES YOU CAN JOIN AND/OR SEARCH

How To

5min Life Videopedia (http://www.5min.com/)
eHow (http://www.ehow.com/videos.html)
Expert Village (http://www.expertvillage.com/)
Howcast (http://www.howcast.com/)
MonkeySee (http://www.monkeysee.com/)
Sutree (http://www.sutree.com/)
ViewDo (http://www.viewdo.com/)
VideoJug (http://www.videojug.com/)

General

blip.tv (http://blip.tv/ ) video blogging and podcasting community for user-created content

Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/ ) image and video sharing social network

OurMedia (http://www.ourmedia.org/ ) user-created, grassroots media

Vidpedia (http://www.vidipedia.org/) a "Wikipedia" of video content; "free video encyclopedia anyone can edit"

Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/ ) user-created video sharing; favored by video artists for its high-quality video files

YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/ ) a popular, free video sharing site

Teaching & Learning

MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm) Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

SciVee.tv (http://www.scivee.tv/) science teaching, learning and research media

TeacherTube (http://www.teachertube.com/) the "YouTube" of teaching and instruction (mostly K-12)

CITE ONLINE MULTIMEDIA IN YOUR RESEARCH

APA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian (www.proquestk12.com/pic/pdfs/ProQuest_Citation_Guide.pdf) excellent citation examples from the online database ProQuest

MLA Style (http://lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mla.html#online ) from the Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley

MLA Style via the Moffitt Library, UC Berkeley:
Author's Last Name, First Name OR Corporate/Institutional Author Name (if known)
Title of Document or File
Document date OR date of last revision
Medium (e.g. Online video clip)
Title of larger web site in which clip is located
Name of hosting library or agency (if appropriate).
Access Date
URL (web address)

Examples

Lucasfilm, Ltd. "Star Wars Trailer." 05 November 1999. Online video clip. Star Wars Official Site. Accessed on 02 April 2008. <http://starwars.com/episode-i/news/trailer/ >

"Daughter Turns Dad In." CNN Video. Online video clip. CNN.com Accessed on 04 April 2008. <http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/04/02/dnt.oh.drunk.driver.dad.wnwo >

Shimabukuro, Jake. "Ukulele weeps by Jake Shimabukuro." 04 April 2008. Online video clip. YouTube. Accessed on 22 April 2006. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k >

Society of Spectacle. Dir. Guy Debord. 1973. Online video clip. Ubuweb.com. Accessed on 09 October 2007. <http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_spectacle.html >

ONLINE PRESENTATION SHARING

SlideShare (http://www.slideshare.com/) share PowerPoint and Keynote presentations online

WEB TOOLS FOR ORGANIZING AND SHARING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

Delicious (http://www.delicious.com/) social link sharing site; effective for collecting, organizing and sharing links to multimedia content online

Flock Browser (http://flock.com/) social web browser and tool for collecting and sharing multimedia content

FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/) your own clearinghouse for content feeds from your various social networks, as well as your friends and colleagues

Google Shared Stuff (http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff) organize and share with friends & colleagues web "stuff" -- links to content and more

OTHER RESOURCES

Fast Video Downloader (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590) a Firefox add-on that allows you to download YouTube & other video content

Citation Data Workshop on 3/16

2009-03-11T12:22:00.001-04:00

Citation Data: H-Index, Impact Factors and Citation Alerts

In this workshop, learn how to:

Search your H-index, a measure of scientific productivity and impact

Find journal impact factors and what that number represents

Set up citation alerts and find cited reference data using the Web of Science

Monday, Mar. 16 @ 1:30 PM

Classroom A, 1st Floor, Melville Library

Library Research Skills Workshop on 3/12

2009-03-11T12:16:00.003-04:00

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

Thursday, March 12 @ 1 PM
Classroom A, 1st Floor, Melville Library

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

Melville Library Author Series: The Modern Russian Theater

2009-03-09T12:01:00.002-04:00

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 at 12:45 p.m.

Melville Library Author Series: The Modern Russian Theater: A Literary and Cultural History featuring Nicholas Rzhevsky, Professor and Chair, Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Program: This comprehensive and original survey of Russian theater in the 20 th and 21 st centuries encompasses the major productions of directors that drew from Russian and world literature. It is the result of more than two decades of research and the author's professional experience working with the Russian director Yuri Liubimov. The book traces the transformation of literary works into the brilliant stagecraft that characterizes Russian theater.

Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)

Sponsor: University Libraries.

Stony Brook University Special Collections and University Archives Events

Group Work on the Web Workshop on 3/10

2009-03-04T13:23:00.002-05:00

Beyond Blackboard: Web Tools for Group Work

How to create and manage groups on the Web using wikis, blogs and more

Tips and tools for online group work

How to share online content and research, including using Google Docs

Using collaborative networks for scholarship

Where researchers and scholars share links and build communities online, including Connotea and LinkedIn

Tuesday, March 10 @ 11:30 AM

Historical Research Workshop on 3/9

2009-03-04T13:17:00.002-05:00

Domain Searches and Other Advanced Searching

Google Books and other Online Book Collections

History Web Sites

Major Digital and Audio/Visual Collections

Library Resource Pages

Creating a Google Custom Search

Wikipedia as a way of finding Online Resources

Monday, March 9 @ 1 PM

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

Winter Storm Library Hours

2009-03-02T10:00:00.004-05:00

Due to the ongoing winter storm, the Melville Library will be open on Monday, March 2, as follows:

North Reading Room 9:00am - 10:00pm
Circulation 9:00am - 5:00pm
Interlibrary Loan 9:00am - 12:00pm, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Also, the following library branches will be open:

Chemistry 9:00am - 12:00pm
Math/Physics 9:00am -12:00pm, 4:00pm - 7:00pm

The Central Reading Room, MASIC and the Music Library are closed. Please check later today for updates and possible evening hours; we will try to keep the North Reading Room open as late as possible.

Non-Traditional Students Workshop on 3/5

2009-02-27T09:42:00.003-05:00

Research Skills for Non-Traditional Students

Been out of school for a while and feeling lost? Working and going to school, and pressed for the time needed to do research? Learn how to:

Access Stony Brook University resources from off-campus

Explore the library’s collection of electronic books and reference material

Use Suffolk Web and WorldCat to find resources close to home

Thursday, Mar. 5 @ 7 PM

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

Film Research Workshop on 3/4

2009-02-26T14:23:00.002-05:00

You think writing a paper about a movie is easy? Professors aren't the only people who understand The Matrix! We'll show you how interesting film research really is, so your parents will never make fun of you again.

Find where the peer-reviewed articles on film are - and aren't

Searching for films and scenes by image and keyword

Online film archives

Film buffs, film blogs, film nuts and number crunching

Wednesday, Mar. 4 @ 1 PM

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

EndNote Workshop @ HSC on 3/2

2009-02-26T14:15:00.003-05:00

Managing Your Research Using Endnote: Basic Skills @ the Health Sciences Center

This workshop was created with the needs of students, faculty and staff of the Health Sciences Center in mind. The workshop will be held in Classroom 2 at the Health Sciences Library so that participants don't need to walk across campus. Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote, 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

Monday, March 2 @ 2:30 PM (1.5 hours)
Location: Health Sciences Library Classroom 2
20 Seat Maximum

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

EndNote Workshop on 2/25

2009-02-24T12:54:00.002-05:00

Creating the bibliography is often the most tedious part of writing a research paper. Using EndNote, 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

Wednesday, February 25 @ 2:30 PM (1.5 hours)

Business Databases Workshop on 2/25

2009-02-23T17:20:00.002-05:00

With websites like Yahoo Finance, CNN Money, etc., why do you need the library's databases? Come and find out how to:

Access information on public companies
Locate current business news and market research

Select the appropriate database for your research

Wednesday, Feb. 25 @ 5:30 PM

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

LibX SBU Edition Workshop on 2/24

2009-02-23T17:04:00.002-05:00

LibX is a browser toolbar extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to the library's resources without requiring a visit to the library website. Effortlessly switch between exploring the Internet and exploring the library. Learn how to:

Install the SBU Libraries edition of LibX

Use LibX toolbar functionality

Use LibX right mouse click functionality

Create your own edition of LibX to suit your specific research needs and preferences

Tuesday, February 24 @ 1 PM

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