Alkek Library Exhibitions & Displays

First Floor - Alkek One Student Gallery

The current exhibit in the Alkek One Student Gallery was produced in collaboration with a campus partner - Disabled & Proud. The featured artwork highlights the personal experiences of disabled students at Texas State University. This art exhibition aims to foster a greater sense of community and offers disabled students the opportunity to express their voices. The exhibit features images and discussions related to mental health struggles.

Second Floor - The Special Collections & Archives 125th Anniversary Exhibit

Drawn from decades of accumulated artifacts from Texas State University's history, this exhibit features four exhibit cases and several framed photographs that cetner around early university history, sports and band memorabilia, student organizations and clubs, and student life.

• The first case highlights materials from the Pedagog annual yearbooks that serve as a resource for understanding campus life since the turn of the century including traditions like the soapbox derby races held during Homecoming week.
• Case #2 memorializes athletic pursuits with a letter jacket, an old-fashioned leather football helmet, and balls commemorating successful football and basketball seasons.
• Our third case focuses on student life with first-year beanies that new students were expected to wear as a gentle form of initiation and a class photo that is over 100 years old, recently donated by a descendant of a TXST graduate.
• And the last case honors student groups as a form of community service and networking among those with future career interests. This case also showcases important social changes when the student body began to more honestly resemble the true diversity of Texas.

Third Floor - Faculty/Staff Authored Books

Each year, the library honors faculty and staff who have books published during the year. We add these wonderful works to our collections. Please visit our third floor display between the grand staircase and the elevators to see a display of the 71 books and their authors that were published last year.