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As a doctoral student and a student member of the library advisory board, I come to the Alkek for academic resources, professional development workshops, and personal projects. I did not know all the various services a school library could offer to the campus community. ... Thanks to the Alkek electronic equipment check out services, I was able to gift one of the most meaningful gifts I could ever give to my husband. [Read her full story here]

- HeeJae Chung, Adult, Professional, and Community Education Ph.D. student, a Doctoral Research Assistant at the CLAS Department

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"I’m the Project Archivist for the Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection. I’m working with this incredible collection that documents the history of Tejano music through materials like artists files, photographs, ephemera, posters, costumes, and audio recordings to make it accessible and usable for all researchers."

-- Susannah Broyles, Project Archivist, Wittliff Collections

Race Relations Database image from Adam Matthew

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The Race Relations Department and its annual Institute, based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict. The Race Relations in America database is a collection of their work which documents three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights in America through the eyes and work of sociologists, activists, psychologists, teachers, ministers, students and housewives. Explore the new Race Relations in America database here.

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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.

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photograph by Wayne Beckham of Cowtown Jamboree at Panther Hall in Fort Worth Texas

At The Wittliff

Panther Hall: A Digital Collection

From 1963-1978, Fort Worth’s Panther Hall was known nationally as the home of the televised Cowtown Jamboree, and it hosted concerts by Waylon Jennings, Charlie Pride, Tanya Tucker, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, and many other stars of country music. The collection is comprised of over 1000 photographs by Panther Hall photographer, Wayne Beckham, and was donated by his family.

“Dr. Zedler working with a child, undated.,” University Archives Online Exhibits, accessed May 10, 2019, http://exhibits.library.txstate.edu/univarchives/items/show/972.

Digital Collections

Finding Our Voice: History of the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is an online exhibit documenting the history of Texas State University's Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic. The history of the clinic is inexorably tied to Dr. Empress Zedler, the woman who founded the clinic. Throughout the course of her career, she became nationally and internationally known as a pioneering researcher and expert in the field of child psychology and speech, language, and hearing disorders. Learn more and see the exhibit here.

Deborah Harry of Blondie by Clyde Kimsey

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It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll

JUNE 3, 2019 – JULY 31, 2019
2ND FLOOR EXHIBIT CASES

In 1978, Ron Young and a ragtag team of music journalists, photographers and record collectors set out to chronicle the rise of punk, New Wave, and heavy metal, as well and good old rock ’n’ roll in San Antonio and Austin. The result was the indie music newspaper It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll. Published from March 1978 to April 1982, the free publication chronicled the new rock scene and the earliest Texas shows by such acts as the Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, the Police and Elvis Costello with interviews, music columns, photographs and record and concert reviews. The Wittliff Collections has digitally preserved its entire run in PDF format. Additionally, Clyde Kimsey, a staff photographer for It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll, recently donated his photographic archive to The Wittliff, including rarely seen color images and outtakes from his days working for the indie newspaper.

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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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