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Celebrate National Poetry Month

Discover and explore poetry over a cup of tea in the Alkek Open Theater. Come and go event. You bring the mug, we'll provide the rest!


When: Thursday, April 25, 2019 10AM - 1PM Where: Alkek Open Theater
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Alkek Maker Day!

Get creative and take a break at Alkek Library Maker Day! Re-energize your brain before finals!


Supplies will be provided including paints, markers, paper, fabric, beads, glitter, 3D pens, and lots more for you to make your masterpiece.

When: April 30th, 10AM - 4PM
Where: Alkek 105/106
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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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.

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 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.
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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.
reproduction of Michael Hannon's artwork

EXHIBIT

Images, Pictures, & Poems: Description in Word & Line - The Artwork of Michael Hannon

APRIL 1, 2019 – APRIL 30, 2019
2ND FLOOR EXHIBIT CASES

“As both an artist and poet I am interested in the overlapping meanings of words and images. As a person with dyslexia, (who learned to spell my first name in college, here) writing has always been intimidating, and pairing this with pictures has helped me to feel more comfortable sharing my writing. I hope you will find some meaning in my work, both the words and the lines.” -- Michael Hannon, artist.

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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San Marcos, TX 78666

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