This article offers an appreciation for one of the great female book collectors in Texas and recalls how her remarkable collection of eighteenth-century English literature found a home at Texas A&M University.

It is not easy to deal with intense emotions, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The collections housed in the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives contain items that can help us process thoughts and feelings, and help us take action to support one another.

Live to Build a Better World: Despair, Survival, and Hope in Science Fiction’s Response to Environmental Change is an exhibition focusing on a timely topic: environmental changes. Specific themes guide the viewer through over 100 books and 14 movie posters. Tapestries and videos complement the experience. The exhibition aims at raising awareness of the dangers in our changing environments, but also at inspiring a sense of hope rather than despair.

The Cushing Memorial Library and Archives recently acquired a French “Casier Geographique” (geographical locker), from circa 1840, containing maps dated 1827–1840. Learn more about this rare item.