Category Archives: Pecan Campus

John Adams movie June 7th!

Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Movies, Pecan Campus, Previous Events

libevents-Movies5To celebrate Independence Day, the Pecan and MidValley Libraries will be showing the monumental HBO miniseries John Adams. The miniseries is based off of David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize winning book (click here to check for availability of book). We will be showing the first two episodes of the seven part miniseries.

Part 1: Join or Die opens with the night of the Boston Massacre. John Adams was a farmer and a lawyer, and he takes on the unpopular task of defending the British soldiers accused of murdering several American colonists.

Part 2: Independence shows John Adams as a new member of the Continental Congress that will eventually declare independence from Great Britain.

John Adams was described as “quite simply, as good as TV gets,” by the New York Daily News, and has won more Emmy’s than any other miniseries.

Pecan MidValley
July 7 at 12pm July 7 at 10pm

http://youtu.be/9CNbQOrxQ-g

Happy 40th Anniversary, Aztlán Journal

Book Displays, Our Collections, Pecan Campus

Happy 40th Anniversary, Aztlán Journal!

The South Texas College Library congratulates Aztlán: Journal of Chicano Studies on forty great years. To commemorate, the Pecan Campus library created the display shown below.

Library Journal says about Aztlán: “this esteemed journal of record is essential for virtually all academic libraries.”

To find out more about the Mexican-American Studies Program at South Texas College visit the website, or take a look at the classes offered.

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Contributed by Esther Garcia, Library Specialist at the Pecan Campus.

Celebrate the 40th year of Earth Day with a showing of An Inconvenient Truth

Library Events, Movies, Pecan Campus, Previous Events

To mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the STC Pecan Campus library will be having a showing of An Inconvenient Truth on April 22nd at 4pm on the first floor at F-102.

There will be an introduction to the movie by Biology instructor, Dr. Mehrad Mahmoudian-Geller, and Lillian Martinez, the Pecan Biology Club President.

To find out  more about the Pecan Biology Club visit this site: http://news.southtexascollege.edu/?p=2075.

For more information about this event, please contact Esther Garcia at 956-872-6485 or egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu.

Author Harold Jaffe to speak on Wed. April 28th

Author / Scholar Visit, Library Events, Pecan Campus, Previous Events

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The English Dept at STC is bringing acclaimed author Harold Jaffe to speak at the Pecan Campus Library in the Rainbow Room.  Mr. Jaffe is the author of the books Beyond the Techno-Crave, Terror-Dot-Gov, and Anti-Twitter, a book of stories limited to 50 words.

Jaffe is the author of 17 books, translated into Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian French Turkish, Dutch, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. Jaffe has won two NEA Grants in fiction, two Fulbright fellowships, a San Diego fellowship, three Pushcart prizes, and many other awards. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including “Paris Review”, “Black Warrior Review”, “Pushcart Prize”, and “Best American Stories”. Jaffe is Editor of “Fiction International” and professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University.

American Book Review has said that Harold Jaffe “is like no one else writing today,” and the San Diego Union-Tribune says that his writing is “potent and prophetic.”

Harold Jaffe will be speaking on Wednesday April 28th start at 4:00 pm.

For more information please contact Dr. Raphael Bennett at 956-872-7266 or rbennett@southtexascollege.edu.

Contributed by Esther Garcia, Library Specialist at Pecan.

Library Open House at Your Campus!

Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Movies, NAH Campus, Pecan Campus, Previous Events, Starr County Campus, Technology Campus

Library Week is that time of the year when we stop and appreciate what libraries and librarians have contributed to our schools and communities. And South Texas College will celebrate Library Week with a number of activities at all five of its campuses.

Celebrated nation wide, this year’s theme is “Communities Thrive @ Your Library.”  In tough economic times, libraries give free access to books, DVDs, computers, and research assistance.  Go by one of your campus libraries to enjoy what they have to offer.  Please e-mail Esther Garcia for more details: egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu.

Library Open Houses 2010
Date Campus Library Details Contact Person
4/12 NAHC Open House 10 am – 2 pm
  • Book Talk  on Valley authors*
  • Drafting demonstration
  • Presentation by Rey Anzaldua on Hospital Security
  • Art Gallery Tours
  • Snacks, Drinks, Cake
 James Phillips 872-3189
4/13 Starr Campus Open House 11 am – 2 pm
  • Kayak exhibit
  • Zavotash dancers
  • Talk given by Local Historian
  • Possible trolley ride
  • Door Prizes
  • Food, Snacks, Drinks
 Thelma Garza 488- 5820
4/14 MidValley Campus Open House10 am – 2 pm
  • Information Fair
  • Music
  • Art Gallery Tours
  • Movie showing New Moon
  • Snacks and Drinks
 Jessica Cruz 447-6663
4/15 Pecan Campus Open House 11 am – 2 pm
  • Information Fair
  • Scavenger Hunt
  • Meet Miss RGV
  • Music
  • Movie showing New Moon
  • Snacks, Popcorn, Drinks, Cake
 Esther Garcia 872-6485
4/19 Tech Campus Open House 10 am – 2 pm
  • Folkloric Dancers
  • Paramedic Visit with Ambulence, Stretcher, and Dummy
  • Book Talk  on Valley authors*
  • Art Gallery Tours
  • Snacks, Drinks, Cake
 James Phillips 872-6120

*Book Talk on Valley authors will be given by librarian James Phillips, and he will discuss authors Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa Smith, Gloria Anzaldua, and T.R. Fehrenbach.

Books at the Movies

Book Displays, Our Collections, Pecan Campus

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.

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Contributed by Esther Garcia, Library Specialist at the Pecan Campus

Gabriel Salazar

Visions of the Rio Grande Valley

Library Art Gallery, Pecan Campus, Previous Exhibits

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Gabriel Salazar is a self-taught artist who has been painting for 30 years. A Rio Grande Valley native, his inspiration is his home environment. Now he has an entire collection of Valley-inspired art and is sharing it with the students of South Texas College

“Visions of the Rio Grande Valley,” featuring oil on canvas paintings by Salazar will be on exhibit at the college’s Pecan Campus Library Art Gallery from Thursday, Feb. 4 through March 27. An opening reception will take place Thursday, Feb. 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the gallery located in Bldg. F at 3201 W. Pecan Blvd. in McAllen. Admission is free and open to the public.

“Once I have an idea, I place myself in it, as if I’m there,” said Salazar. “I imagine it, a landscape situation, and I live what I paint.”

Salazar knows and envisions what he wants in his paintings and changes things as he works along the way. He is inspired by the beauty of the Valley and paints what the Valley “used to be” and, in some areas, still is, including open fields and orchards with blue valley skies.

“Salazar’s mastery of depth and perspective within his paintings are amazingly displayed in this exhibition,” said Sofia K. Vestweber, STC’s Library Art Gallery Program associate. “His paintings are incredibly detailed and rich with nostalgia for rural valley landscapes.”

South Texas College’s Library Art Gallery Program exhibits regional, national and international artwork, explores new visions and theories of creativity, and introduces innovative artistic expressions to the South Texas region.

For more information contact 956- 872-3488 or visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryartgallery.