Library Faculty Research
The Texas A&M University Library system includes the Sterling C. Evans Library, the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, the West Campus Library, the Policy Sciences and Economics Library, and the Medical Sciences Library.
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(2020-10-27)Primary sources have long enabled an inquiry-based approach to instruction, one which offers students the opportunity to expand critical thinking abilities and lasting research skills through a personal experience with ...
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(Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, TAMU, 2018-06-26)The brochure includes both collections and a chart of the LGBTQ historical events at Texas A&M University. The timeline was developed by Dr. Hillary A. Anderson as she processed the LGBTQ Archives in Cushing. The timeline ...
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(Texas Digital Humanities Consortium, 2016-05-27)This presentation was the basis for discussing, surfacing, and sharing best practices for establishing and evolving collaborations among digital scholars. We sought to engage the audience in discussing what factors to ...
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(Texas Digital Libraries, 2016-05-26)This ppt presentation details a collaborative proof of concept project called Digital Black Bibliography (DiBB) that sought to provide scholars with the tools to compile, preserve, manipulate, and interpret Africana cultural ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The HathiTrust repository contains agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service publications from all 50 of the United States. But to freely display the post-1923 documents, HathiTrust requires a Permission Agreement ...
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(The Conversation, 2019-03-20)Cataloging and classification are critical to any library. Without them, finding materials would be impossible. However, there are biases that can result in patrons not getting the materials they need. This article illustrates ...
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(2019-06-19)Sometimes it is hard for catalogers to explain what we do and why it is important to the public at large. This is because the words (jargon) we use often sounds like a foreign language to others. This presentation will ...
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(2019-05-14)This poster highlights some of the more graphically and thematically interesting zines in the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives Zine collection as well as the RaceRiot! speakers who shared their passionate opinions and ...
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(2019-05-01)This poster explores the hairstyles and hair stories of Black women in America. The images follow a historical chronology from the legacy of slavery to these contemporary times. Black women have both struggled to conform ...
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(2019-05-01)This poster explores the depiction of Muslim women in film and on television. Hollywood has often portrayed Muslim women as angry, insensitive mothers, sisters, and daughters in dramas such as The Bodyguard and American ...
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(2018-05-14)Digitization of our state’s legacy agricultural documents and making those publications accessible worldwide on the Internet since 2005 has resulted in large numbers of downloads of them. Download statistics from five ...
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(2018-05-18)Cataloging and classification are critical to any library. Without them, finding materials would be impossible. However, there are biases that can result in patrons not getting the materials they need. This poster will ...
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(New York University Press, 2016-03)On August 29, 2005 the world witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Katrina as it swept through New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi; a natural disaster that will forever be linked to the images of ...
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(American Library Association, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2009-03)Has the move toward online resources had an effect on source material for the study of black feminist theory? The last forty years have witnessed a critical mass of literary and theoretical writings on the black feminist ...
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(Lexington Books, 2016-03-11)Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood (2002) and its sequel Zulu Heart (2003) combine Africa, Islam and Muslims to show positive and negative sides of what would have happened if whites were the enslaved and blacks were the slave ...
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(Library Juice Press, 2016-01-21)This essay discusses a number of identity issues related to what people of color experience in American society, with a particular focus on Derrick Bell's concept of racial realism. The essay looks at Bell's theory as it ...
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