Albert B. Alkek Library

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Coding with Micro:bits

Get creative and get coding with Dr. Sean Justice from the School of Art and Design as he demonstrates the micro:bits controller. No previous coding or programming experience required. This is a hands-on, collaborative workshop. Save your spot here and register.

Texas State Common Experience Event in the theme of Innovation

An Alkek Maker Day workshop

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

screeshot of catalog record showing request hold button

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.

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.

Featured Staff

The YouStar Studios Team is a new addition to the library! They are excited to to create opportunities where students, staff, and faculty will be able to produce multi-camera podcast/web series, interviews, testimonials, music videos, photo headshots, product shots, and much more.

Pictured: David Keslick, Anlo Sepulveda, Dean Brennan, and Veronica Mazuca

Sign up to stay in the loop, receive filmmaking tips and start producing your own content!

H-LSAMP student group members and Alkek Little Free Library

Alkek Outreach

"Students from the H-LSAMP Scholars Program in the College of Science and Engineering – including Diego Torres (senior, biology major) and Maddie Weaver (senior, manufacturing engineering major), pictured here – are proud to have adopted the Alkek Little Free Library as their community service project. Our program has had a book club for many years; we love books, too! H-LSAMP is a perfect match to share the joys of reading and promote literacy in our community through this wonderful project." ~~ Susan M. Romanella, Director, NSF H-LSAMP Scholars Program, College of Science and Engineering

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.

Book cover for Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers & Geeks Who Transformed The Capital of Texas by Joe Nick Patoski

At The Wittliff

Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 4:00 PM

Join author Joe Nick Patoski as he discusses and signs copies of his new book, Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers & Geeks Who Transformed The Capital of Texas.

Book signing will follow program — books available for purchase.

Please RSVP

Spaces

Media Corner

Come relax in the Media Corner located on the main floor of Alkek Library. You can watch TV or study, and you can also reserve this space. Look for info about our Monday Night Movie Nights too!

See more information about the Media Corner here.

Resource

Texas State University has joined HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic libraries collaborating to preserve and provide digital access to books and other publications.

The HathiTrust Digital Library includes more than 6 million public domain works, which Texas State students and employees can download in full-text. The digital library also includes millions of volumes that are still in copyright, which can be provided to individuals with certified print disabilities.

The Goose-Step: a Study of American Education by Upton Sinclair

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THERE'S AN ELEPHANT IN THE LIBRARY

JANUARY 3, 2019 – FEBRUARY 26, 2019
2ND FLOOR EXHIBIT CASES

This exhibit highlights works from Alkek collections which became free of copyright on January 1st. Any of these materials (and thousands more) can be freely used as they are or to make new works, without permission of copyright holders. Our membership in HathiTrust gives us free access to additional materials in libraries around the country. Hathi is a Hindi word for Elephant - Happy Hunting!

Exhibit curated by Stephanie Towery (Copyright Officer) and Margaret Vaverek (Research, Instruction & Outreach Librarian).

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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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