Continuing our series of blog written by our student employees, Alie Dowell writes about her experiences working as a metadata assistant. Alie assisted with The Wittliff’s metadata and archival description initiatives focusing on the migration of Microsoft Word and PDF collection inventories into ArchivesSpace to enhance online discovery and access. The Wittliff’s ArchivesSpace site can …
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By Avery Foligno, Student Collections Assistant, The Wittliff Collections During my first years at Texas State University, I was unsure of what I wanted to do after graduating with my degree in Anthropology. I had so many questions about my career path and felt very unprepared for my future. Right when I needed it though, …
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By Wittliff intern Abigail Moon. As a student at Texas State University, I was pleased to join the Wittliff Collections team as a Digitization Assistant in Fall of 2023. My internship consisted of working with the unique archival materials found in the Texas Music Oral History project. This collection consists of interviews with a diverse …
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The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University have acquired the complete archive of internationally acclaimed writer Benjamín Alire Sáenz. A major literary voice from the US-Mexico borderlands, Sáenz is the author of nearly 30 books and his works have been published in 25 languages worldwide. Sáenz, who lives and works in El Paso, has said, …
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Longtime Texas writer Mike Cox, author of more than 40 nonfiction books, has donated his extensive Texana research files to the Texas State University’s Wittliff Collections. Amassed over sixty years, the material consists of 1,000-plus file folders that cover numerous aspects of Texas people, places, folklore and history. The files also include notes, correspondence and …
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Editor’s note: Student employees are a big part of The Wittliff’s success. In celebration of National Student Employee Week we want to highlight the hard work of our student employees. This is the first in a series of blog posts about how students contribute behind-the-scenes in the archives. Abigail Moon is a Wittliff digitization student …
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Recently, Wittliff intern, Deandra Lee, curated Souls of Prom, a photo installation featuring photographs by Will van Overbeek. This new exhibition at The Wittliff’s Treasures gallery showcases six images from his 2005 Prom series. Lee’s enthusiasm comes through in her introductory curatorial statement, “I was excited to learn about a photographer who has been photographing …
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Calling all Percy Jackson fans and lovers of beautiful book illustration alike! The Wittliff Collections is proud to celebrate artist/illustrator, John Rocco, in a new exhibit, Illustrating the Odyssey: Book Art for Rick Riordan’s Mythic Worlds. On display are 17 original signed and numbered prints by Rocco that were published as cover art and illustrations …
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By Katie Salzmann Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians young adult book series centers around a 12-year old dyslexic hero who discovers he is the modern-day son of a Greek god. The Lightning Thief, the first book in the series, was published in 2005 and quickly became an international best-seller, translated into dozens …
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(Originally published in the Fall 2010 edition of The Keystone) RICK RIORDAN is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for children and the multi award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults. The Percy Jackson series features a twelve-year-old dyslexic boy who discovers he is the modern-day …
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