Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGSS)

Request a tour or workshop
Customized library instruction, tours, and workshops are available for your classes. There are also regluarly scheduled, open workshops. See the complete Workshop Schedule for more info. You can also get started on your own with the Library Research Guide tutorial.

Course Reserves
Reserve books and articles from periodicals, as well as electronic resources, for the use of students enrolled in your classes. You may place hard copy materials through library reserve desks, on-line either using personal Blackboard web-pages, or on-line in the Library’s Electronic Reserves system. Fill out the online form or make your request(s) in person.

Through the University's membership in various Library consortia, Stony Brook students, staff and faculty have access to, and/or borrowing privileges at, numerous other research libraries on Long Island, in the greater New York area, and throughout the U.S., Canada, and other countries.

SHARES

The University Libraries' participation in the SHARES program (OCLC) allows Stony Brook students, staff, and faculty with current ID cards to enter and use many major libraries in the United States, Canada and abroad.

Check the list of the member libraries in our regional area or the location at which you'll be visiting.  Full List of SHARES Member Libraries

Stony Brook ID holders visiting these institutions may use materials; however, borrowing privileges are not usually available.

Students, staff, and faculty are urged to call ahead to a particular library, before actually going there, to confirm that they will be granted access at their time of arrival. Also, if they need to use a branch library within one of the participating library systems, it should be confirmed beforehand that the branch also takes part in the program and will allow access.

New York Public Library

Any person who lives, works, attends school or pays property taxes in New York State is eligible to receive a New York Public Library card free of charge. This gives researchers the opportunity to use important collections in the NYPL system, check out material, and access a wide array of useful electronic resources from on-site or, in a few cases, from home. See the NYPL web site for more information on getting a card.

See their list of databases.

State University of New York Libraries

Stony Brook students, staff, and faculty have direct borrowing privileges at most other SUNY libraries.