SBU celebrated Open Access Week with a number of events and culminating with the third Open Access Symposium.
http://library.stonybrook.edu/open-access-week-events/The Symposium included keynote speakers Elliot Harmon, Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education at SPARC as well as panel discussions on various aspects of open access. Mark McBride, SUNY OLIS, participated on panel discussion on Open Access Policy and OERs.
On October 24th, a Wikipedia edit-a-thon was held at the Stony Brook University Libraries. Students from the Program in Writing and Rhetoric worked on Wikipedia resources related to disability studies, mental health, ethnic/minority and marginalized peoples, and the LBGTQ* community. Libraries Darren Chase, Jamie Saragossi, and Laurel Scheinfeld were on hand to help students use the library’s resources to support their edits.
Stony Brook University Libraries announce the opening of the Max Fink Papers and Digital Collection. The Max Fink Digital Collection, a subset of the papers, includes nearly 7,000 items (20,000 pages) of Dr. Fink’s original notes on experimental psychiatry, outgoing letters to colleagues, professional writings, and an autobiographical memoir completed in 2017.
Prize-winning journalist, author, and historian Bill Bleyer presented “Long Island Naval History in Wartime, with an emphasis on World War I” on Thursday, October 19, 2017. Special guests in attendance included residents of the Long Island State Veterans Home, Stony Brook, NY.
This program was part of New York Archives Week and World War I and America, a two-year national initiative of The Library of America presented in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the National World War I Museum and Memorial, and other organizations, with generous support from The National Endowment for the Humanities.
Librarian Bob Tolliver, Head, Science & Engineering, was invited to speak at the American Geosciences Institute’s (AGI) Leadership Forum as part of a panel on issues of concern to the geosciences. Bob spoke on the importance of access to data and information in the geosciences including research and data produced by federal agencies. Following the Leadership Forum, Bob attended AGI’s Geosciences Congressional Visits Days (Geo-CVD). The Geo-CVD started with a workshop on communicating with Congress and preparation for the following day’s visit to Capitol Hill. Bob prepared for the visit with the three other attendees from NY, including geoscientists from Columbia University, the University of Rochester, and the Paleontological Research Institute in Ithaca. The following day, the NY group meet with the offices of our two state senators, the four house representatives from their districts, and staff members of the Environmental Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, & Technology Committee to discuss the importance of geoscience funding and access to data and research produced by our federal science agencies. The Geo-CVD was a great opportunity to learn about communicating with our government about issues in science and education.
Personnel
Laurel Scheinfeld joined Stony Brook University Libraries on October 19, 2017 as the new Health Sciences Librarian.