Alkek Library Exhibitions & Displays

Alkek One Student Gallery

The Alkek One Student Gallery is located in the first floor lobby of the Alkek Library. Each fall, a call for proposals is issued and students submit ideas for creative projects to be included in the gallery installation for the following calendar year. The projects demonstrate how technology and creativity align using Alkek One resources and technologies. 

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.