READ! – Joshua Wallace Recommends…

Our Collections, READ Posters

Dearest Readers,

Welcome to our third installment of READ! Posters. Today we feature one of our very own, Joshua Wallace, Librarian and History Adjunct-Faculty Member. This multi-tasking master can be found at the Reference Desk, instructing Library Information classes, and teaching History! With such an eclectic set of skills, he’s bound to have some interesting reads to recommend. Check them out below!

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His recommendations from our library:

Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

The Next 100 Years – George Friedman

Falling Leaves – Adeline Yen Mah (available on ebook!)

The Tunnels of Cu Chi – Tom Mangold

Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places – Le Ly Hayslip

Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados – Chad Richardson

Power over Peoples – Daniel Headrick

When China Rules the World – Martin Jacques

Stop by and check some out when you get a chance!

 Are you curious about any of these books? Maybe you would like to see what other people have to say about them before you trek to the library to check them out? Check out our Shelfari bookshelf (on the right sidebar of the blog) and click on the cover of each book to find reader reviews and more!

Let us know what you think of these recommendations! We’d love to hear from you, so feel free to leave us a comment at the bottom of the post.

Until next time, trusty followers, have a great end of semester!

READ! – Patricia Ballinger Recommends…

Our Collections, READ Posters

Welcome to the second installment of our faculty READ posters! Today features a popular art professor, Patricia Ballinger, and her recommendations from our STC Libraries. Stop on by and check them out when you have an opportunity. Summer is coming up fast and soon we’ll have lots of time to read new books, right?

Enjoy!

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Her Recommendations from our Library:

The Story of Painting – Sister Wendy Beckett

The Story of Art – Gombrich

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Born In Trilogy – Nora Roberts

  • Born in Fire
  • Born in Ice
  • Born in Shame

Abstractions – Georgia O’Keeffe

Calder: Gravity & Grace – Gimenez & Romer

Remedios Varo – Janet Kaplan

Stop by and check some out when you get a chance!

 While we’re busy giving out these great recommendations, we’d like to draw your attention to our new sidebar feature. Starting this week we will use a virtual bookshelf to display our latest recommendations and/or monthly displays! While this shelf is still in beta (we will be changing the width and how many books display soon) feel free to test it out! Clicking on the covers of the featured books will link you to a site where you can find descriptions and reviews from other readers before you come to the library to check them out for yourself!

For those of you reading these posts on a feed reader, have a look at our blog’s homesite to see it.

Have a great Easter Break, fair readers, and we’ll see you again next week!

READ! – Dr. Nelson Recommends…

Our Collections, READ Posters

Have you ever wondered what inspired our great professors to be who they are today? Or maybe you’re just sitting around with nothing to do?

Our newest line of READ posters will be published soon, but until they are we’ll give you a taste every week of our favorite instructors’ book recommendations. Check them out!

This week… We welcome STC philosophy instructor Dr. Christopher Nelson! Find out his favorite books below the poster!

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His recommendations from our library:

Tao Te Ching – Lau Tzu

Selected Writings – Meister Eckhart

The Complete Stories – Franz Kafka

Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard

Falling Up – Shel Silverstein

Collected Dialogues – Plato

The Sickness unto Death – Soren Kierkegaard

The Varieties of Religious Experience – William James

Stop by and check some out when you get a chance!

 

Event: 150th Anniversary of Mexican-American Involvement in the Civil War

Author / Scholar Visit, Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Pecan Campus, Previous Events

libevents-vaqueros All over the United States people are using the word sesquicentennial to describe the 150th anniversary of the Civil War taking place this year.

The STC Library and the Mexican American Studies Program will be commemorating the anniversary with a book talk by historian Dr. Jerry Thompson, author of Vaqueros in Blue and Gray and many other books discussing the South Texas involvement in the Civil War.

On Monday, April 11, Dr. Thompson will be talking at the MidValley Campus Library and at the Pecan Campus Library.  Books will be available for sale, and the author will sign books after his talk.  His other books include The Civil War and the Southwest as well as Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas.

 

 

Monday, April 11

2:30 PM –
MidValley Library
Build – E
400 N. Border, Weslaco, TX
6:00 PM –
Pecan Library
Build – F   Rainbow Room
3201 W. Pecan Blvd., McAllen, TX

 

For more information contact Esther Garcia at egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu.

A South Texas Ceramic Showdown: POTS, Every Piece is a Part of the Solution

Library Art Gallery, Pecan Campus, Previous Exhibits,

Howdy Readers! If you’ve wandered the halls of the Pecan Campus Library this June, you may have noticed our two fantastic new art installations! If you haven’t, come by the second floor and check out these exhibits. They are definitely something different, and it’s free!

One of these exhibits, hosted within the Library Art Gallery, is the Ceramics Showdown, and will only be available for viewing until July 1st:

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For more information about these exhibits or the Library Art Gallery contact:

Sofia K. Vestweber

(956) 872-3488

libraryart@southtexascollege.edu

Or visit the Library Art Gallery at http://library.southtexascollege.edu/newsevents/libraryartgallery/

Documentary for Mexican Revolution Centennial Nov. 18

Library Events, Movies, Pecan Campus, Previous Events

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Join the STC Library at Pecan to celebrate the one hundred year anniversary of the Mexican Revolution with a special documentary created by Hispanic Research Center at ASU.  The movie will be introduced by Dr. Trinidad Gonzales, history instructor at STC.

In addition to the movie, also, go by the library to check out a special display featuring books about the Mexican Revolution.

Date: November 18
Time: 12:00 pm
Place: F-102

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

Movie “Touch of Evil” on Nov. 16

Library Events, Movies, Pecan Campus

libevents-Movies11Come to the STC Pecan Campus to watch the Orson Welles classic Touch of Evil starring Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh.

This special screening will feature an introduction and a closing Q&A with Dr. George Díaz, STC History Instructor.  The movie also connects to the exhibit MEXtasy up at the Pecan Campus Art Gallery by William Nericcio.

“One of the greatest movies ever made in America! A wondrous gift no movie lover should miss.” – Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Date: November 16th
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Building D (Rm 103)
Fee: FREE!

For More information, please contact, George Díaz at gdiaz9@southtexascollege.edu or (956) 872-2012.

Co-writer of the Film “Machete” to talk at Pecan Library

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

libevents-alvaro On Tuesday October 5 at 7:00 pm screenwriter Alvaro Rodriguez will visit the Pecan campus library to discuss the movie Machete.

Rodriguez is a Valley native and screenwriter whose work includes MACHETE, SHORTS and FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE HANGMAN’S DAUGHTER.   He has worked as a reporter for The McAllen Monitor, and is the author of a series of short stories set along the Texas–‐Mexico border, many of which have been published in journals including El Paso’s Bordersenses and The Mesquite Review. He will be a panelist at Austin Film Festival in October 2010.

Celebrate Banned Books Week at STC

Book Displays, Mid-Valley Campus, Our Collections, Pecan Campus

Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

At the MidValley and Pecan campus libraries, displays are up showing books that have been banned in the past.  In addition, the Pecan campus library will be showing the movie Salt of the Earth, an American classic film, but at the time time of it’s release, the movie had a lot of trouble getting released. The movie will be shown on Sept. 29 at 12pm at F-102.

Enjoy the displays below:

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Display at Pecan Library

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Display at MidValley Library

To find out more about Banned Books, please visit ALA’s website: http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/

Contributed by Patricia Saenz Library Technician at MidValley and Esther Garcia, Library Specialist at Pecan.