The Archives holds the Papers of D.A.T. Walton, b. 1837-1915. Walton was a Texas Ranger, Confederate Captain, Sheriff of Bee County for 19 years, and Sheriff/Tax Collector of Brewster County for 8 years. His collection includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, legal documents, and other materials. Of interest are his Civil War correspondence with his family members [...]
We're happy to introduce our new InterLibrary Loan (ILL) platform. Not much has changed -- you don't even have to remember a new password! We hope you enjoy the freedom of managing your own requests. Try it out and be sure to Ask a Librarian if you have any questions. New features: All students, faculty and [...]
Big Bend Comic Con returns for another year in the Library. Join us on Saturday, October 14, from 1 to 5 PM for cosplay, an art auction from the students of Presidio High School, artist and vendor tables featuring locally produced art, comics and more. This year's con is another celebration of comics, graphic novels, [...]
Chances are if you look up in Alpine, you'll see a bird before too long. Here on campus, we regularly spot Great Horned Owls and Rock Pigeons, but those guys can be found just about everywhere in the States. More special to our region, we often hear the "harsh kr-a-a-a-a" calls of Chihuahuan Ravens (photos [...]
Summer is breezing by, y'all. Last week in the mail, we received paperwork from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image reminding us about all of the great videotape and film they took back to Austin back at the beginning of July to digitize for us as part of the Texas Film Round-Up. The Archives [...]
Make time for leisure reading. Hey! Academic libraries aren't just for serious academic research. The SRSU Library offers *free* access to print and digital periodicals, newspapers, bestsellers and visual media, such as DVDs. Take advantage of a little bit of leisure time -- you know, the time between next week and the beginning [...]
You may have noticed the PlumX Metrics icons in your search result listings when using the Discovery System (sometimes referred to as that search box on the Library's homepage). Because PlumX Metrics are already integrated into our Discovery System's search results, we thought we'd share a bit about them in hopes of finding out your thoughts and [...]
Journals and coursework notebooks from one of Sul Ross State University’s first students were donated to the Archives of the Big Bend Thursday (April 27). The John Welborn McKay Collection was presented by Sul Ross Distinguished Alumnus, E. Julius Dasch, his wife Pat, and Dr. George Bradley, retired Sul Ross Professor of Communication and [...]
Now that so much information is accessible online, it's easy to get confused about types of information sources -- what's what and what's useful -- whether or not it's accessed from one of the Library's many subscription databases, through our Discovery System, in our local catalog or from the free internet. Because of different information source formats, different content [...]
In January 2016, the Board of the Association of College and Research Libraries adopted the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. This framework consists of six broad frames representing threshold concepts in information literacy. There are six frames in the framework. These frames are typically presented in alphabetical order because the concepts are meant [...]
