Coates Library Blog
Latimore Public Humanities Initiative
This past fall the University Archives, the EAST and MAS programs, and the Museum Studies minor, received funding through the Summerlee Foundation for the Latimore Public Humanities Initiative. The initiative is…
Alumni Audrey Tolle: becoming a librarian
Librarianship is an exciting and diverse career path. Erika James, Access Services, interviewed alumni Audrey Tolle on what it was like to embark on this professional path. Coates Library has…
Dreaming of a New Library
Library Architecture Class During the spring 2024 semester, I’ve had the privilege to visit and work with the students in Professor Kathryn O’Rourke’s ARTH 3391 class on library architecture. The…
Working in Coates Library
We full-time staffers here at the library believe it’s a great place to work. We enjoy being around books and having access to the world’s knowledge, and it’s immensely gratifying…
ResearchRabbit: an AI Research Tool
Where do we start? As you embark on your research journey, whether for a class paper, a senior thesis, or an independent project, navigating the vast sea of scholarly publications…
Black History Month: from our students
Before there was Black History Month, there was Negro History Week. On February 7, 1926, Carter G. Woodson, a history scholar and professor, launched the first Negro History Week in…
Obsolete Media: An internship
My name is Chris Junginger, and I am a junior majoring in Latin and Museum Studies. Over the fall semester, I interned in the University Archives as an obsolete media…
Willa Cather Collection
“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in…
Conmemorando a la Comunidad
Conmemorando a la Comunidad: Latinx Experiences at Trinity University is a digital humanities project created during the summer of 2023 as a partnership between The Mexico, the Americas, and Spain…
San Antonio Archives Bazaar
In celebration of American Archives Month the San Antonio Regional Archivists (SARA) is hosting the first-ever San Antonio Archives Bazaar. The event will take place on Saturday, October 7th, 2023…