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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

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 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