Category Archives: Pecan Campus

Summer Displays

Due to Hurricane Alex, the Displays committee has extended June’s displays until the end of July. This will give students, faculty, staff, and patrons an opportunity to view books about how to improve their communication skills such as public speaking, interpersonal, organizational, small group, persuasion etc.

We also have a library display up about Men’s Health. The books for this specific display will help men who are dealing with physical, mental issues, and taboo topics that society rarely talks about. These books allow our STC campus and community to become aware of struggles men deal with on a day-to-day basis and a look at how to solve those issues.

In addition, committee members put up three additional displays that celebrated LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered) Month, Ceramics, and Hurricane Awareness Month. Check them out.

If you would like the library to add any books to any of these displays, let us know! Enjoy!

Check out our slideshow here:

Contributed by Amy Gowarty from the Pecan Campus Library.

John Adams movie June 7th!

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

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

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

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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 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

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