Category Archives: Book Displays

Women’s History Month Book Display

March 24, 2010Book Displays, Mid-Valley Campus, Our Collections, Pecan CampusWomen's History MonthElizabeth Hollenbeck

Celebrate Women’s History Month with one of these books from the MidValley Campus Library

or the Pecan Campus Library.

Also, look for these books:

Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History by Teresa Palomo Acosta (check for availability)

The first woman in the republic : a cultural biography of Lydia Maria Child by Carolyn Karcher (check availability)

Founding Mothers: the Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts (check availability)

Girls like us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon–and the journey of a generation by Sheila Weller (check availability)

Feminism and contemporary art : the revolutionary power of women’s laughter by Jo Anna Isaak (check availability)

Contributed by Lillian Carillo from the Mid-Valley Campus and Amy Gowarty from the Pecan Campus Library.

Spring Book Display at Pecan

March 4, 2010Book Displays, Our Collections, Pecan CampusElizabeth Hollenbeck

Enjoy Spring with a book from our collection!

Contributed by Blanca Sanchez from the Pecan Campus Library.

Heart Health Month Display

February 24, 2010Book Displays, Our Collections, Technology CampusElizabeth Hollenbeck

This February is Heart Health Month. Celebrate by getting a recipe or information from one of our many books.

Magazines/Journals

Stroke

Circulation Research

Books

Your heart : an owner’s guide

Platillos Latinos, sabrosos y saludables = Delicious heart-healthy Latino recipes

Bypass: a healthy heart without surgery

Women and Heart Disease: What You Can Do to Stop the Number One Killer of American Women

And if you are near the Tech Campus Library, check out this display:

Contributed by Sara Martinez from the Pecan Campus Library and Sheila McGee from the Tech Campus Library.

Texas History Month

February 24, 2010Book Displays, Our Collections, Pecan CampusElizabeth Hollenbeck

Celebrate Texas History Month with these books at the STC Library

Contributed by Sylvia Barrientos from the Pecan Campus Library.

Black History Month Book Display

February 10, 2010Book Displays, Our Collections, Pecan CampusElizabeth Hollenbeck

In honor of Black History Month the library has put out on display books that celebrate literature, art, politics, and women’s lives. A personal favorite of mine is the poetry of Langston Hughes.

This book display also complements the events the STC History Department has arranged. These events are held at the Rainbow Room starting at 7:00 pm, and they include:

Feb. 1	“Jim Crow Sists on the Bench: The Desegregation of Texas College Footbal
Feb. 9	“Another Shade of Brown: Brown v. Board’s Effect on the Students in the RGV”
Feb. 17	“A Real War of Races: Rethinking African American Resistance to Racial Violence”
Feb. 24	“When Blacks were Latinos: Blacks in Texas from Esteban to the Buffalo Soldiers”

Contributed by Esther Garcia, Library Specialist at Pecan Campus.

Books at the Movies

February 8, 2010Book Displays, Our Collections, Pecan CampusElizabeth Hollenbeck

Check out these books that have been made into movies very recently.

On PBS’s Masterpiece Theater you can watch Jane Austen’s Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion this Spring. They will also be showing a suspenseful adaptation of The Thirty-Nine Steps, previously adapted by Alfred Hitchcock as well as a new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank in April.

At the movies you can watch the literary hero Sherlock Holmes, and rent Amelia partly based on S. Butler’s East to the Dawn: the life of Amelia Earhart as well as the epicurean hit Julie and Julia taken from such books as Julie Powell’s Julie and Julia as well as Julia Child’s My Life in France.

Contributed by Esther Garcia, Library Specialist at the Pecan Campus