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Roma High School Art Exhibit

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Roma High School Art Exhibit

June 6 –August 12, 2016

Reception: June 13, 1pm.

On display at the Starr Co. Campus Library (Rio Grande City)

Starr County Campus presents the eighth annual Roma High School Art Exhibition

South Texas College’s Starr County Campus Library Art Gallery partners with Roma High School to present its annual Roma High School Art Exhibition from June 6 to August 12, 2016 with an exhibit reception on June 13th at 1 p.m. The display features works of art by students, who have studied under the tutelage of Roma High School art instructors Gabriela Gonzalez, department head; Mario Godinez, teacher; and Abilene Vargas, teacher.

The exhibit will be on display at STC’s Starr County Campus Library (Bldg. F), located at 142 FM 3167 in Rio Grande City. Admission is free and open to the public.

“The STC Library Art Gallery’s collaboration with Roma High School is still going strong and is now entering into its eighth year,” said Gina Otvos, South Texas College Art Gallery Associate. “Every year’s submissions are always different from the last, reinforcing Roma’s reputation as an incubator for highly inventive art students.”
The exhibit features mixed media artwork by Roma High School students of all grade levels.

STC’s Library Art Gallery 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 Terri Rosalez at mtrosalez@southtexascollege.edu or
(956) 488-5822. For a complete listing of events visit: http://library.southtexascollege.edu/lag.

 

New Database: Naxos Music Library

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New Database: Naxos Music Library

 

May 4, 2016

The Library has added Naxos Music Library to its online database collection.  Naxos Music Library offers streaming access to more than 124,500 CDs with more than 1,800,000 tracks of fine arts music. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. Naxos Music Library provides several options for searching and browsing the collection.

Use Naxos Music Library to look up and listen to music you read about or hear about in class. Naxos Music Library sound recordings may not be downloaded, copied, or used for commercial purposes. Naxos Music Library can be accessed from the Library’s Online Library page at http://library.southtexascollege.edu/resources/databases/

 

 

Contributed by Jesús Campos, Director of Technical Services.

Permanent Art Collection Exhibit

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Permanent Art Collection

June 13-August 12, 2016

On display at the Technology Campus Library (McAllen)

The South Texas College (STC) Library Art Gallery celebrates its history with an exhibit from the Permanent Art Collection

STC’s Library Art Gallery celebrates eight years of building the college’s Permanent Art Collection with an exhibit at the Technology Campus. The exhibit opens Monday, June 13, 2016, and will be on view through Friday, Aug. 12, 2016. The STC Technology Campus Library Art Gallery is located at 3700 W. Military Highway in McAllen. Admission is free and open to the public.

The exhibit features works of art that have been donated to STC, from 2008 to 2016, by various artists who have exhibited at one of the college’s five library art galleries in Hidalgo and Starr counties.

“It’s always interesting to be able to bring together our donated works of art into one exhibit,” said Max Garcia, South Texas College Librarian. “It creates a type of visual timeline of what we have exhibited over the years. We are always grateful for all of our amazing donations and are happy to share them with all of STC’s campuses so that everyone has a chance to enjoy them.”

STC’s Library Art Gallery 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 Gina Otvos at gotvos@southtexascollege.edu or (956) 872-3488. For a complete listing of events, visit: http://library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryartgallery

 

Earth Day – A Video Display

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Earth Day will be celebrated around the world on April 22nd. Join in the celebration by visiting the library and checking out one of our many videos on the topic. Here are a few titles to get started:

#1) Years of living dangerously: the complete series / Cameron, James

Call Number: QC 902.9 .Y437 2014 DVD

Also found online in Films on Demand database.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#2) Tapped / Soechtig, Stephanie

Call Number: HD 9349 .M542 T36 2010 DVD

Tapped

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#3) The 11th hour / Conners, Nadia.

Call Number: GF 75 .A13 2008 DVD

The 11th hour

#4) Plastic paradise : the great Pacific garbage patch / Sun, Angela

Call Number: TD 427 .P62 P53 2014 DVD

PlasticParadisedvd

#5) Vanishing of the bees [videorecording] / Langworthy, George

Call Number: SF 538.5 .C65 V36 2010 DVD

Vanishing of the bees

#6) Dirt! : the movie [videorecording] / Benenson, Bill

Call Number: S 591 .D57 2009 DVD

dirt! the movie

#7) Gasland : Can you light your water on fire? / Fox, Josh

Call Number: TN 881 .A1 G373 2010 DVD & ( Part II: TD 195 .G3 .G37 2014 DVD)

Gasland Can you light your water on fire?

#8) Food, Inc / Kenner, Robert

Call Number: TP 370.2 .F66 2009 DVD

Food, Inc

#9)Unacceptable levels / Author Brown

Call Number: RA 1226 .U533 2013 DVD

Also found online in Films on Demand. *

Unacceptable Levels dvd

#10) GMO trilogy / Smith, Jeffrey M.

Call Number: TP 248.65 .F66 G66 2006 DVD

Additionally, many related titles can be found in the Films on Demand database by searching Earth Day or Environmental Science. Check out the online videos, Blue Gold: World Water Wars or Flow: For Love of Water to get started.    The Green Interview films and Green Planet Films also have many related titles of interest.*

* Please note: If you are off campus, you will need to enter your JagNet username and password to access library databases.

Contributed by Librarian, Maureen Mitchell

Earth Day image from www.rinconeducativo.org with changes under creative common: CC BY-NC 2.5

National Library Week @ STC 2016 Open House

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NLW 2016

The South Texas College Library joins libraries nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the value of libraries, librarians and library workers.

 

Libraries today are more than repositories for books and other resources. Often the heart of their communities, libraries are deeply committed to the places where their patrons live, work and study. Libraries are trusted places where everyone in the community can gather to reconnect and reengage with each other to enrich and shape the community and address local issues.

 

“Service to the South Texas College community has always been the focus of the library,” said Cody Gregg, Dean of Library and Learning Support Services. “While this aspect has never changed, libraries have grown and evolved in how they provide for the needs of every member of their community.”

The South Texas College Library is celebrating National Library Week by hosting Open House events at each campus library. The events are free and open to the public.

On April 13 from11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at STC’s Technology Campus Library located at 3700 W. Military Highway in McAllen, attendees will enjoy a screening of the movie The 33, as well as games, drawings, popcorn and snacks.

On April 13 from 10:00 a.m. to 1: 00 p.m. at the college’s Mid-Valley Campus Library located at 400 N. Border in Weslaco, events will include a screening of the movie The Good Dinosaur, pictures with college mascot Jerry the Jaguar, popcorn and snacks, a photo booth, a contest, and a “Pursuing Education” Fair.

On April 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Starr County Campus Library located at 142 FM 3167 in Rio Grande City, activities include the movie showing of Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos, popcorn and snacks, games, Jerry the Jaguar, a photo both and information tables.

On April 13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at STC’s Nursing and Allied Health Campus Library located at 1101 E. Vermont in McAllen, attendees will be treated to the movie showing of The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2, giveaways, popcorn and snacks, games, scavenger hunt, and information tables.

On April 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at STC’s Pecan Campus Library located at 3201 West Pecan Boulevard in McAllen, festivities will include an information fair, a scavenger hunt with prizes, and the showing of Star Wars the Force Awakens, as well as popcorn and snacks, games, and a photo-booth.

First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April.

For more information visit http://library.southtexascollege.edu or call 872-8330.

 

National Poetry Month Speaker Series

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The South Texas College Library and English Department would like to invite you to join us to attend the month of April’s speaker series. We will have award-winning poets Laurie Ann Guerrero and Rossy Lima here to speak to our students and community on their works. Please spread the word. Laurie Ann Guerrero Monday, April 18, 2016 Mid Valley Campus: G191 at 1:00 p.m.  Pecan Campus: Library’s Rainbow Room at 6:00 p.m.  Laurie Ann Guerrero is a Poet Laureate and award-winning author. She has written the collection A Crown for Gumecindo and A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, which was the winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. In addition, Guerrero’s chapbook, Babies Under the Skin, won the Panhandler Publishing Award. Her poetry and critical works have also appeared in various journals and magazines.

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Rossy Lima Tuesday, April 19, 2016  Mid Valley Campus: G191 at 1:00 p.m.  Pecan Campus: Library’s Rainbow Room at 6:00 p.m. Rossy Lima is an international award-winning Mexican poet who has published in various journals, magazines, and anthologies. She was a featured poet in the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum in 2015 and was invited to speak at TEDxMcallen about her experience as an immigrant writer in the U.S.

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For more information about these events, please contact Richard Coronado at (956) 447-6651 or via email at coronado@southtexascollege.edu

National Poetry Month Events at Starr Campus Library

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Please join us Wednesday, April 6 at 10:00 am for a special book/author talk

Cantos del alma y del corazón—Poesía Original a collection of 50 Spanish poems will be presented by Dr. María Alma González Pérez. The poems express feelings and emotions from personal experience and provides the reader with a sensitive, yet realistic perspective of love, the family, and culture among other topics.

Dr. Pérez is a former bilingual education professor and director for UT PANAM Starr County campus, poet and writer. She writes Spanish poetry, children’s bilingual and local South Texas history books as well as teacher training material.

Her poetry book will be available for purchase at the event.

 

Please join us Thursday, April  14 at 1:00 pm for a special book/author talk

Gabriel H. Sanchez is a writer and poet from the Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of “The Fluid Chicano: Poems by Gabriel H. Sanchez,” by Slough Press, 2015. He is also co-author of “Nuevas Voces Poeticas: A Dialogue About New Chicana/o Identities,” published by Slough Press, 2015. Sanchez has publications in scientific journals, scholarly publications, several anthologies, and has served as a transcriptionist and translator for a Rio Grande Valley newspaper. He is a graduate of the University of Texas Pan American with a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling. Alongside writing, Gabriel is also a film maker, director, and an actor, having had starring roles in productions such as the play “Pat and Lyndon” by Archer Crosely;  the movie “Blood for the Sun” by Mar Motion Media; and the digital series “Who Shot Me,” by Fluid Chicano Films which he also writes and directs. Recently he has accepted a lead role in another film by MQV Media.  He writes a blog titled “Cross Sections” for The Raving Press website, www.thervaingpress.com and Chicano Blogabout on his website www.thefluidchicano.com.

“The Fluid Chicano” is a book of poetry that encompasses four different aspects of life: 1) A societal/historical poetry; 2) An intimate look into internal questions about love; 3) The exploration of love loss; 4) A philosophical view of identity as a non-static, fluid construct of the self by the self and by others.

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We Must Build As If the Sand Were Stone

Library Art Gallery, Previous Exhibits

 

69cc32f42e89efaa-Solis_X_If_I_could_be_like_misty_roses_2015January 25 – March 28, 2016

Artist Lecture:March 28, 6 pm

Mixed-media artist, Xochi Solis, to spark Mid-Valley imaginations

The South Texas College Mid-Valley Campus Library Art Gallery presents “We Must Build As If the Sand Were Stone,” an exhibit featuring small work and a site-specific installation by artist Xochi Solis. The exhibit opens Monday, January 25, and will be on view through March 28. The Mid-Valley Campus Library Art Gallery is located in Bldg. E at 400 N. Border in Weslaco. Admission is free and open to the public.

“The Mid Valley Campus is honored to welcome such a skilled artist with a vast wealth of experience in her profession,” said Gina Otvos, STC art gallery associate. “Solis’ work is playful in color and form and is also intentional in technique. Her approach and extensive mixed-media art knowledge will undoubtedly spark the imagination of both professional and aspiring artists.”

In addition to the exhibit, an artist lecture and closing reception with Solis will be held at the STC Mid-Valley Campus Library Art Gallery on Monday, March 28, at 6:00 p.m. The artist lecture and reception is also free and open to the public.

Originally from Austin, Texas, Xochi Solis received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). She is the director of events and public programming at the Visual Arts Center at UT Austin. Solis brings with her a wealth of both professional and artistic experience having worked in numerous galleries in Texas including Volitant Gallery, Art Palace and the Creative Research Lab, and was the executive director of the 2009 Texas Biennial.

Most notably, Solis has exhibited and participated in residencies in Los Angeles, Houston, Boulder, New York City, Oaxaca and Mexico City, MX and is trained in natural dying techniques for paper, which she utilizes in both her small works on museum board and her larger site-specific installations. Solis’ work is also featured in Collage: Contemporary Artists Hunt and Gather.

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.

 

Contact Gina Otvos at 956-872-3488 or gotvos@southtexascollege.edu for more information regarding “We Must Build As If the Sand Were Stone.” For a complete list of current and upcoming exhibitions, visit library.southtexascollege.edu/libraryart .