The Sul Ross Library has arranged a trial of Flipster, the digital magazine platform from EBSCO. The trial is available through 4/21/2018. Flipster is a next-generation digital magazine solution that makes it easy for you to access our subscribed magazines. You can read the magazines online, and download magazines to read offline, anytime, anywhere [...]
The personal correspondence in one of the Archives's most valuable collections, The Clifford B. Casey Collection, has recently been processed. A subset of Dr. Casey's personal correspondence is his Sul Ross Correspondence, 1931-1973, which primarily documents memos, policies, and correspondence he received while he taught at Sul Ross from 1931-1960. Dr. Casey was still very [...]
On Feb. 6, 2018, the Archives of the Big Bend hosted Dr. Jenn McCormack’s Geography of Texas class. The Archives was chosen as one of the six locations students will visit for their Field Site Analysis assignments. 13 students in the class were able to learn about the holdings of the Archives, the types of [...]
In late January, 1918, Captain J.M. Fox of Texas Rangers Company B ordered Ranger Bud Weaver to investigate the tiny border town of Porvenir, Texas after the Brite Ranch Raid. Over 1500 dollars worth of merchandise from the Brite Ranch store and three people on the arriving mail coach were killed during the raid. Porvenir [...]
The Archives is pleased to announce its latest digitization initiative- The Brand Yearbooks . These will be found under our Webpage Digital Collections . To commemorate the Centennial Anniversary of the school, we hope to have all the early Brands scanned and available online. We also will soon be getting Commencement Programs up as well. Physical copies of [...]
Finals are wrapping up and the Library is shifting into holiday hours. While the Library website, including databases, library guides and tutorials, will remain available 24/7, please note that the Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library in Alpine will reduce hours between December 13 and January 16 and be CLOSED between December 21 and January 2. (See [...]
Did you know that the Marfa Lights are not the only mystery unexplained by history and science in the Big Bend area? Chances are you are already familiar about the strange lights that have been seen around Marfa since the late 1800s. What about the Big Bend Tablet? For some reason, this story is known [...]
Did you know that the Sul Ross Library did not receive its own building until 1969? Before then, it was found in two separate places. When Sul Ross Normal College opened its doors in 1920, the entire school was in one building, what is now known as Briscoe Administration Building, then known simply as the [...]
Photograph by James Evans Hallie Crawford Stillwell was born in Waco, Texas on October 20, 1897 to Scots-Irish-English parents Guy and Nancy Crawford. She was the third of six children. Her father described her as “always searching out new pastures”, which would describe her life very well. In 1910 the family moved to Alpine, Texas [...]
One lesser known resource living in our Databases A-Z listing is CAMIO, the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online. Sure, you can do a Google Image Search any day... but how about cutting out the ads and taking yourself on a virtual field trip to The Detroit Institute of Arts (see also: dia.org) or the Walker Art [...]
