Library Events

Family Reading Night
Want to find some fun entertainment for the entire family? Your local library is a good place to start. And you can get to know your South Texas College Mid-Valley Campus Library at its annual “Family Reading Night” on Wednesday, Oct. 18 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The free event, which is open to the […]

National Voter Registration Day – Tuesday, September 26, 2017
With Local Elections Looming, Group Calls on Community Partners to Hold National Voter Registration Day Drives Washington, DC – In advance of this year’s municipal and statewide elections, 2,000 groups across the country will mobilize to celebrate National Voter Registration Day on September 26, 2017. The National Voter Registration Day Steering Committee is calling on […]

Hispanic Heritage Film Series
“Precious Knowledge: Fighting for Mexican American Studies In Arizona Schools” and  “Stolen Education: The Legacy of Hispanic Racism in School” will be shown at four of our campus libraries throughout the months of September and October to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series – Dr. Benjamin Johnson
Please join us, Thursday, October 12 at the Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room at 6:00 pm Dr. Benjamin Johnson, teaches history at Loyola University Chicago. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he is author of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans Into Americans.

Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series – Jennifer De Leon
Please join us, Thursday, October 5, 2017, at the Mid-Valley Campus Auditorium G-191 at 10:00 am and Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room at 6:00 pm Jennifer De Leon is an author, editor, speaker, and creative writing instructor who lives in Boston. She is the editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, published by the University of Nebraska Press, and […]

Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series – Valentin Sandoval
Please join us, Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at the Mid-Valley Campus Auditorium G-191 at 3 pm, Wednesday, October 4 at the Starr County Campus Library at 10:00 am and Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room at 5:00 pm Mr. Valentin Sandoval was born in Juarez, Mexico. He currently lives in El Paso, Texas and is a commercial videographer.  […]

Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series – Dr. Timothy P. Bowman
Please join us, Monday, October 2, 2017, at the Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room at 6:00 pm.   Dr. Timothy P. Bowman, Americo Paredes Book Award Recipient for his book entitled Blood Orange: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands.  

Hispanic Heritage Month Lecture Series – Dr. Cathryn J. Merla-Watson
Please join us, Wednesday, September 27, 2017, at the Starr Campus Library at 10:00 am & Pecan Campus Library Rainbow Room at 6:00 pm Dr. Cathryn J. Merla-Watson is a former Ford Foundation Diversity Fellow and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Literatures and Cultural Studies Department and affiliate faculty in Women and Gender Studies […]

South Texas College Libraries Open House 2017
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 […]

Women in Tejano: Past, Present & Future
South Texas College Mid-Valley library will be featuring on Wednesday, March 29 at 10:00am in G-191 a Women of Tejano artist panel for Women’s History Month. Then join us at 12:00 pm at the South Texas College Pecan Campus Courtyard for live performances of the three visiting artists.