Category Archives: Library Announcements

Semester Loans


The Semester Loan Programs provides academic support to students as they work to fulfill their educational goals by providing technology to access key tools and resources, including Library databases, eBooks, Blackboard, and other helpful online resources. Students wishing to receive one of these loans should review the eligibility requirements before submitting an application.

STC Library currently has 37 laptops and 14 hotspots available for student use. The technology loan application will open on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, and will remain open until all available inventory has been distributed.
Please note that inventory is limited at each campus, and there is no guarantee of which campus you will be able to pick up your loaned device from.

Submit Application

Available for students meeting the eligibility requirements.

 

Liana V. Andreasen Author Reading

Author Talk Liana V. AndreasonSTC Faculty and author Liana V. Andreasen will read from her newly published book Whirl of Birds, a collection of short stories.

“The literary landscape of Whirl of Birds interlaces the spatial and temporal complexities of the mind, in narrative flickers and bursts. Whether we glimpse at the plight of Neanderthals in the depths of lost ages, or at the collapse of communism in the mirrors of a children’s theater, whether we’re uplifted by the triumph of friendship over poverty or watch the last cowboy in New York State struggle to save his business, we recognize how much we are driven by our passions. Strange, but all too human obsessions shape the characters: from rat hoarding to an infatuation with a sculpture, from lies we tell ourselves and others to encounters with the dead, readers are swept in whirls of time, chains of connectivity that can break like glass, the unseen that whispers in our ear. The twists and turns of these short stories create a restless world where self and other meet in glimpses. Each small moment becomes an earthquake that echoes through time, each life is wrestled out of its own darkness, to arrive at the one question that is worth asking.” — Finishing Line Press

Copies will be available for purchase courtesy of the STC Bookstore.

Join us in person at Pecan F102 or online through Zoom Webinar (registration link below).

Event Title:Liana V. Andreasen Author Reading
Speaker: Liana V. Andreasen
Date: Monday, November 18th 2024
Location: Pecan F102 and online through Zoom Webinar
Time:
 2PM CST
Register for the online session: Link

Challenges in Health Care Services on the Border

Challenges in Health Care Services on the Border

Speaker Dr. John McKiernan-Gonzalez

When federal health authorities act in a place like Texas where people cross rivers, live, love, and work together and are a part of their communities and their nations, public health becomes a key site to understand and enact health and disease, citizenship and community, inclusion and exclusion.

Dr. McKiernan-González is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest, the Jerome and Catherine Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies, and Associate Professor of History at Texas State University.

Event Title: “Challenges in Health Care Services on the Border”
Speaker: Speaker Dr. John McKiernan-Gonzalez
Date: Wednesday, October 2nd 2024
Time: 3PM CST
Register here: Link

Vietnam: 50 Years Later Film Series (Fall 2024)


STC Library is thrilled to work with the STC History Department and the Liberal Arts Division to present a film and lecture series focused on the fiftieth anniversary of the Vietnam War. All screenings listed below will take place at 5:30PM in the Building D Auditorium on Pecan Campus.

Wednesday, September 25
Dr. Annie Liss – “The Impossibility of Reason”: Platoon’s Portrayal of VietnamPlatoon (1986)

Wednesday, October 16
Martha Cantu – The Vietnam War and The Post:  “You lied to me: Propaganda, Paranoia, and the Pentagon Papers.”The Post (2017)

Wednesday, November 13
Dr. Jaclyn Miller – “We Had No Homefront”: The Reintegration of Vietnam Veterans in American SocietyBorn on the Fourth of July (1989)

Wednesday, December 4
Carissa Hayden – “No Time for Your Mickey Mouse BS”Full Metal Jacket (1987)


 

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Laptop Distribution

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South Texas College Foundation is excited to partner with AT&T, Human-I-T, and STC to make this upcoming laptop giveaway a reality for our college students. Selected students meeting all eligibility requirements will receive a laptop.

Students must be actively enrolled to qualify. See the complete list of eligibility requirements here.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until October 11, 2024 and selected students will be notified beginning October 25, 2024.

Submit Application

Available for students meeting the eligibility requirements.
Juan Ochoa Author Talk

Juan Ochoa Readings at Starr Campus

Juan Ochoa Author Reading

Author Juan Ochoa

Author Juan Ochoa

Join us in Starr Campus Library’s multipurpose room for this reading by STC faculty and author Juan Ochoa from his newest book. Pa’l Otro Lado, a prequel to Mariguano, spans five generations of violence and tragedy in the Cortina family while narrating their forced migration to the United States from Northern Mexico. It is the tale of every working-class family who has come to realize that “you just can’t win.” Hunger and poverty drive the characters in this novel to abandon all hopes of attaining the American Dream and to resign themselves simply to survive. P’al Otro Lado is full of the baddest hombres and the nastiest women we all know, love, and call family.

Event Title: “Juan Ochoa Author Reading”
Speaker: Professor Juan Ochoa
Dates: September 4th and 5th, 2024
Time: 10AM CST
Where: Starr Library Multipurpose Room


 

Welcome to the Library


Welcome to South Texas College Library! Join us as we highlight some of the services that we offer students, faculty, and the community in this short video.

Whether you need a quiet place to study, print out a research paper, or even find an ebook, the South Texas College Library is here to help. Come visit us!