Back to School… Already?
photo of McKittrick Canyon fall foliage, courtesy Paul Slocumb
June is Pride Month
In honor of Pride Month, peruse a collection of Library resources related to Pride and the LBGTQ experience. We're adding to our virtual display to include a letter from the Sul Ross State University Diversity and Inclusion Committee: "In June 2017, the city of Philadelphia adopted a revised version of the flag [...]
May Book Displays: Our Backyard!
photo of the South Rim [in Big Bend National Park] by Adam Baker on Flickr, via Creative Commons license, CC BY 2.0.
April’s Book Displays ~ Let’s Go Virtual
We take pride in featuring titles from our vast collection each month on the first floor of the library -- whether surrounding a theme, national holiday, or cultural event. This month, April 2020, we'll share titles available to our community online on a few topics, including some titles that we hope will entice you [...]
NEW in HeinOnline – Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
The library has launched a new HeinOnline collection called Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law. Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law brings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state [...]
Resource Spotlight: CAMIO
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 [...]
Birds of North America
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 [...]