Occupy the OccuPASt: Celebrating the 1960s Counterculture Newspapers in the Houston Cole Library

Come explore the dissident press in America (1965-1975) at the Houston Cole Library. These lively, psychedelic and vibrant newspapers spread like wildfire throughout the Country during the turbulent sixties. They helped facilitate the anti-war movement and gave voice to issues such as civil rights, women’s liberation, gay liberation,  Black power, corporate greed, mistrust of the [...]

Young Adult Books: Recent Additions

Come check out the new young adult books in our collection. On top of my list to read are Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Gary Schmidt’s Okay for Now.  The latter  is a “companion book” to The Wednesday Wars which, without a doubt, is one of the most charming and delightful young adult books I have read [...]

A Celebration of New Sports Books

“It was the biggest crowd that we have ever had and it’s more than just the crowd. I thought there was a lot of passion and chemistry from our student body and that means a lot – that’s what sticks out to me. I’ve never seen the amount of numbers and support from the students. [...]

7th Annual Popcorn n’ Picture Books Celebrates El día de los niños/El día de los libros

Picture books exert a unique influence on their audience for a variety of reasons. Most significantly, the audience receives the messages in the text at a point in their lives when they are expecially impressionable and when they first begin to formulate ideas about culture, society, and values. ~ Joy Worland This year’s annual ‘Popcorn [...]

The Underground Newspaper Microfilm Collection

Please see my new guide at http://libguides.jsu.edu/undergroundnewspapercollection Click on the link below to access the Using the Underground Newspaper Collection Tutorial: http://lib-www.jsu.edu/tutorials/undergroundnewspapertutorial2.wmv Free Handout! The new media is too important to be left to the Peter Pan and Mother Goose executives, but…(as a new artform)…can only be trusted to the new artists. ~ Marshall McLuhan [...]

Library Coffee Shop: Expanded Seating Area

Jazzman’s Cafe & Bakery, Jazzman’s Cafe, library coffee shop, Houston Cole Library, Jacksonville State University

Site of the Day: “A Different View”

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And the next stop on the mystery tour is…

brace yourself folks…the Houston Cole Library! The Houston Cole Library was honored to be the latest stop on Anniston’s South Highland Community Center’s “mystery tour.” For some of the members, this was a trip down memory lane. Mr. Joe Hoffman, Director of the tours, and Ms. Lanier were former JSU Students. Ms. Lanier was a nursing [...]

Welcome Back: Fall Semester 2009!

Welcome back students and faculty! As you walk into the lobby of the library, you will now enjoy the smell of coffee and pastries. The library’s new coffee shop, Jazzman’s, will be up and running  just in in time for the new semester. This will be a great place to study, meet up with classmates [...]

Library Coffee Shop Progress: Week 5

Coffee falls into the stomach … ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop … the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similies arise, the paper is covered with ink … – Honore de Balzac Houston Cole Library’s new coffee shop is coming along. They’ve started setting up the main counter and [...]