🎧 Take an ASMR tour of Fondy! Turn your sound on and get to know us, floor by floor, with some of our best sounds. We make stops in the @ricekelleycenter and CAPC.
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#DYK the top ten reasons to love Fondy? 🤔 While we kind of think 4 is best, what’s your favorite? 📚 Come see us and learn more today at the academic fair or at the circulation desk during the Weeks of Welcome! 🦉 Sign up for Fondren 101 at the 🔗 in bio.
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🎨🧑🎨Now that you've seen how it happens, come tell us all about how you use ebooks! There are changes coming this summer...
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So thrilled about the “Agri-Cultures of the Southern Cone” students’ creative projects: CREATIVE AGRICULTURES IN THE AGE OF AGROTOXICS.
🌱🥜 In the course SPAN384 (Spring 26), students were assigned to create paper-based collages accompanied by a reflective summary. Their work was inspired by the course’s readings, personal experiences, and discussions related to Southern Cone as a Global Agricultural Powerhouse, gauchesca’s past and future, peasant resistance, health and agriculture, and writings on agrotoxics and food. They also explored agribusiness slogans like “Agro é tech, agro é pop, agro é tudo” from Brazil, along with agroecological initiatives.
🚜 🐄 The collages surpassed all expectations: a visual agropoem that reinterprets Andrés Bello’s “Silva to Agriculture” in the context of agrotoxins; peasant protest signs associating Movimiento Campesino Paraguayo and EZLN; an agamograph depicting nature and its strange transformations due to herbicides; a capillary collage that connects humanity and soil, past and present, through toxic vessels; an agroecological installation punctuated by earthworms; a pluriversal agrocollage emphasizing conflicting perspectives about ‘el campo conosureño’; two diptychs contrasting glyphosate-laden environments with post-agrotoxic worlds, alongside representations of agricultural production and sites of consumption. The collection also includes an ‘agricultural cento’ and a ‘sertanejo extravaganza’ showcasing the Agro’s grand concert in Brazil as dystopia.
🎥 🌿 While the creative task was individual, there was a collective element. Inspired by Eduardo Molinari’s video “Los niños de la soja,” we filmed a short video showcasing the students’ collages, featuring their voices and a soundtrack made from audio recordings of the students undertaking the task “listening to the agriculture around us.” Many thanks to everyone at the Digital Media Commons at @fondrenlibrary for helping us set up a scene in the film studio and for all the support. The video is currently in production and is expected to be ready after the summer, so stay tuned!
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When the shelves are high, the carts are massive, and the books are heavy… you call Rice Rec! Shoutout to our friends @fondrenlibrary for letting one of our private trainers, Jocelyn, share some tips and tricks to keep that library life strong. Stay tuned for part 2! 💪💪
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Research Services is looking for a detail-oriented student to help us manage our collection over the summer! ☀️
The Role: Pulling books from the stacks, barcoding items for transportation, and other essential library duties.
The Perks: On-campus convenience and flexible hours.
The Details: Up to 20 hours per week at $11.00/hour.
👉 Interested? Send an email to Martha Hernández Galván at [email protected].
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💙🎓 Recent graduates, we miss you already🥺. Come back to study or do research in Fondy or access select Fondy online services through the Rice portal! If you’d like a little bit more, say, checking out our physical items, join Friends of Fondren Library. Recent grads (2022-2026) can join FoFL for only $25! Just $15 extra gets you an access card from RUPD. FoFL helps fund everything we do, so if you loved us while you were here, help us keep going after you’re gone.
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🤷 Not everyone is ready to handle that time of year… we should only let the seasoned Access Services people handle it. 😅
*Vinicio is fine after a small moment of hysteria followed by a little quiet time.
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Sometimes, the archives archive the archivers! 🎞️📷These were all taken at the 1974 Commencement, and the Woodson Research Center has them organized along with other commencement records. When celebrating your graduates, don’t forget to take some photos of the photographers so we know what that was like in the future. The person in the third photo is making a home movie, and most of us wouldn’t recognize that as a 70s camcorder! 🎥
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🙇🧑🎓You can tell it’s been finals season… Happy #WhiteboardWednesday students! We loved having you study with us this semester. Good luck as you leave us and we hope to see you soon 🥹🎓
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The Program in Jewish Studies was delighted to host 24 faculty from institutions across Texas this weekend for the May meeting of the Texas Jewish Studies Triangle. We spent the day at the Woodson Research Center exploring the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives.
STJA curator Melissa Cohen-Nickels guided the group through the history of the Archives and shared current initiatives in the morning, followed by hands-on archival programming in the afternoon. Participants engaged directly with materials documenting the Houston Jewish community’s response to World War II, bringing history to life in meaningful ways.
It was inspiring to see so many ideas emerge about how to engage university students in rigorous historical research and archival work. Katie Webber, the Katz Family Archivist, led two excellent sessions on oral histories and utilizing university archives, helping us better understand both the creation of oral histories and their unique value in interpreting the past. She also explored how university archives across the state can be integrated into the classroom.
We look forward to building even more partnerships between STJA and institutions across Texas. Thank you to program chairs Matthias Henze (Rice University) and Chad Spigel (Trinity University)!
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