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READ Poster: Tell your own story and star in your own READ poster

Tell Us Your Story!

Has the library or reading changed your life?


Tell us your story about how literacy, reading, and/or the library have inspired you and your life and you could star in your own Alkek Library READ poster!

Submit your story here by April 15th..
Featured Staff - Brittney Johnson

Featured Staff

"Hello! I am the Digital Literacy Program Coordinator, and I develop curriculum for and coordinate the Certificate Program that will be embedded within our library's first-floor technology spaces (the Immersion Studio, YouStar Studios, MakerSpace, and GeoSpace) once renovations are complete. I'm very excited to be back here at Texas State (my alma mater!)."


---- Brittney Johnson
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Long Night @ Alkek

The Long Night Against Procrastination returns on April 3rd.


Stay up late with us for free coffee & donuts, valuable research assistance in time for your final project, and a quiet computer lab on the first floor.

Research and donuts and coffee, oh my!
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Your Voice

“As a graduate student, I use the library for my heavy research. The librarians teach me how to use research tools such as using subject headings and quotes to narrow my searches. I am always surprised that the library has already subscribed to databases or materials that I need to access. For example, I needed a 1950s New York Times article and instead of me subscribing, I discovered that we already have it through the library. I always encourage others to use the library when they are searching academic material.” -- Ashlei Evans, Public History Graduate Student
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Services

Requests for Pickup


To request an item to be retrieved and held for you at the circulation desk, simply use the Request function in the Library Catalog. The system will prompt for your NetID and password and the location at which you wish to pick up the item. Once the item is ready for pickup at the selected location, you will receive an email notification. Generally you will have at least 5 days to pick up an item being held for you. You can check MyAccount to verify "pick up by " information.

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Announcing!!

Subject Librarian Trading Cards


What does a subject librarian do? They provide individualized research assistance, teach workshops, collaborate with faculty, and more!

You can now pick up your very own, limited edition Subject Librarian trading card! Check our Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter sites to see your Subject Librarian's trading card.
Brown Studio portrait (right) of Sallie Fisher that appeared in the 1917 college student yearbook, known then as the Pedagogue

Digital Collections

The Brown Studio


This online exhibition highlights two photo albums and prints of the Brown family, as well as a selection of glass plate negative photographs produced in Margaret Brown's photography studio on Guadalupe Street beginning around 1916. The albums include many photographs from the Brown's boarding house near the Southwest Texas State Normal School and surrounding San Marcos landmarks. The portrait on the right is of Sallie Fisher and appeared in the 1917 college student yearbook.
photograph of Bill McDavid (left) and Freddy Powers (right). From the Freddy Powers: Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association Collection

At The Wittliff

The Boys Who Wrote the Songs


The Rogers & Hammerhead Show aired from 1996-1997, shining a spotlight on songwriters who developed country music in Texas—and whose songs made various country musicians famous. In 2009 Freddy Powers donated the broadcast tapes to the Wittliff. View clips of the show, as well as the full online archive.

Bill McDavid (left) and Freddy Powers (right). From the Freddy Powers: Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association Collection. Unknown photographer.
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Spaces

Study. Collaborate. Work.


Discover the variety of reservable and open spaces Alkek Library has to offer. There are spaces to study, create videos, collaborate, and practice your presentations.

Learn more about all the spaces here.
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Resource

SAGE Video includes the Business and Management, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Education, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, and Research Methods collections. SAGE Video collections were created for use in teaching and research across higher education and combine originally commissioned material with licensed videos. New collections have been added. See more info here.
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EXHIBIT

International Transgender Day of Visibility: Library Resources

MARCH 1, 2019 – MARCH 31, 2019
2ND FLOOR EXHIBIT CASES

The University Libraries are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Transgender Visibility on March 31, 2019, with a month long display highlighting library materials that feature transgender characters in fiction, works by transgender authors, academic materials and research exploring what it is to be transgender, as well as biographies about individual's lives and their experiences.

Alkek 2020 Vision

EXHIBIT

Library Renovations: Alkek 2020 Vision

AUGUST 15 – 2019 
1ST AND 2ND FLOOR EXHIBIT CASES

The Alkek 2020 Vision is the plan for transforming the Albert B. Alkek Library into a place where the Texas State University community can do research, study, collaborate and also explore, create, discover and innovate. The $14.3 million renovation, which is expected to be complete by early 2020, will include major modifications to the library, applying the learning commons model of library design where technology and information resources come together to facilitate research, innovation and instruction. Visit our first floor display and take a look back at how far the library has come and the exciting new features being added through this project that is expected to begin later this fall. And check out our centrally located second floor display case for continuously updated video and images of the transformation.

 

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601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666

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