Library News
East Texas A&M Library Unveils Renovations with Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
On Sept. 10, students, faculty and staff gathered outside the south entrance of the Velma K. Waters Library to celebrate the completion of the building's first-floor renovations.
Library Renovation Underway
March 10 marked the beginning of a major renovation of the library’s first floor, which will include extensive updates.
ETAMU Librarian Presents “ChatGPT Unveiled” to California Public Library
A.P. Anderson represented East Texas A&M on the West Coast with a presentation about the power and pitfalls of AI.
The TAMUC Trailblazer: The Legacy of the First Black Student
Black History Month Series Part 2: Honoring and Recognizing Impactful Black Figures in the Lion Family
Texas A&M University-Commerce is renowned for a student body comprised of people from a multitude of races, cultures, and countries. But it wasn’t always…
TAMUC Joins OpenStax Institutional Partnership
Texas A&M University-Commerce joined OpenStax, a nonprofit open educational resource from Rice University, in September 2023. OpenStax is the world's largest publisher of free, high-quality, open educational resources such as textbooks and materials for instructors.
Sarah Northam, Director of Research…
Preserving History: TAMUC Student Helps Keep The East Texan Alive
Jackson Thornton, a senior Computer Science major at A&M-Commerce, is helping preserve the university's rich history. Since August, he has interned in the Archives Department, located on campus in Waters Library. His role is to digitize The East Texan, A&M-Commerce's…
TAMUC Jazz Legend Louise Tobin Dies at 104
A recent article in The Washington Post reports that jazz legend Louise Tobin died on Nov. 26 at the age of 104. Tobin was a big-band singer of the 1930s and '40s who donated her jazz collection to A&M-Commerce in…
TAMUC Librarian Selected for SPARC Open Education Leadership Program
Sarah Northam, a scholarly communications librarian at A&M-Commerce, was selected from a competitive candidate pool as a 2022-2023 fellow for the SPARC Open Education Leadership Program. SPARC is a non-profit advocacy organization that promotes the development of open education, a…
Full-Service Starbucks Location Opens Inside TAMUC’s Waters Library
Students, employees and the general public have a new location to get their fill of coffee, tea and other items with the grand opening of a full-service Starbucks location inside the Waters Library at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Following an extended…
A&M-Commerce, Multiple Texas Universities Form Library Coalition
Texas A&M University-Commerce recently joined forces with 26 other universities in Texas to form the Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) to increase access to faculty publications and sustainability of journal subscriptions. TLCUA organized to identify options for changing…