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Sklar Collection on Display at Southampton

Stony Brook University Libraries has so many wonderful collections within their realm that sometimes a collection or two tend to fly under the radar. One of the collections at SBU that has flown under the radar for a number of

Posted in About Us, Arts & Humanities, MFA Theatre & Film, Southampton, Writing and Literature

Alec Baldwin Among Esteemed Faculty for Southampton Theatre Conference

  You may have heard about Stony Brook University Libraries official partnership with the world renowned Southampton Writers Conference (if you haven’t read the article!). But what you might not be aware of is that the Southampton Theatre Conference happens

Posted in Events, Featured, Library Outreach, MFA Theatre & Film, Southampton, Writing and Literature

SBU Libraries Partners with Prestigious Southampton Writers Conference

For over 40 years (41 to be exact), aspiring and prestigious writers have flocked to Southampton to take part in what is now one of the most well-known writers conferences in the world. While over those years the landscape has

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Author Series, Events, Featured, Library Outreach, MFA Theatre & Film, New and Notable, Southampton, Spotlight, Writing and Literature

Project Muse Premium

Project Muse is a scholarly database similar to JSTOR that offers full-text versions of over 600 peer-reviewed journals from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies. Subject areas include: Area and Ethnic Studies; Art and Architecture; Creative

Posted in Africana Studies, Anthropology, Art, Arts & Humanities, Asian and Asian American Studies, Cinema Studies, Comparative Studies, Cultural Analysis & Theory, Databases, Digital Collections, Economics, Education, Electronic Resources, Film Studies, French, German, History, Libraries, Medicine, MFA Theatre & Film, Music, New and Notable, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Research, School of Professional Development, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Sustainability, Theatre, Women's Studies, Writing and Literature

Stony Brook Southampton Library Open!

The Stony Brook Southampton Library is now open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,  9:00 am to 5:00 pm.  The Library features a circulation and Interlibrary Loan services, a growing collection of books and other materials, wi-fi, group study tables, study carrels,

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DATABASE TRIALS: Three Streaming Drama Collections

Routledge Performance Archive includes interviews with key figures in theatre history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers from around the world; unique footage direct from the legendary practitioners themselves; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions; and documentaries previously unavailable

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Database Trials, MFA Theatre & Film, Theatre

Macbeth Goes Digital: Folger Shakespeare Library Launches Digital Texts

Folger Shakespeare Library announces the release of its new Digital Texts, a free, online resource that offers twelve of Shakespeare’s most popular plays from Folger Editions. Try Folger Digital Texts. From the Folger press release: Folger Digital Texts offers meticulously edited,

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Comparative Studies, MFA Theatre & Film, Research, Theatre, Writing and Literature

DATABASE TRIAL: New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present

200 full length feature films from leading independent distributors…

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Cinema Studies, Cultural Analysis & Theory, Database Trials, Film Studies, MFA Theatre & Film, Writing and Literature