Redesigned Homepage October 1, 2009
Hello everyone! You may have noticed the library's redesigned Homepage. The information presented is essentially the same, but the organization is different, in part due to the tabbed navigation system. The new system allows rapid updating of information and opportunities for interaction. Perhaps of most interest to students is the creation of the Kids & Teens Page which is currently under construction. Stay tuned for the change to come.
We hope this navigation system is more user friendly and easier to operate. We welcome your feedback on the library's redesigned Homepage and any comments that you may have. Feel free to e-mail the Library Director with any comments or suggestions using our "E-mail the Library Director" feature located at the top of our Homepage. Thanks for visiting our Website, the place to be!
Robert Rodriguez
Library Director
The Big Read
The Robert J. Kleberg Public Library in conjuction with Texas A&M University@Kingsville is proud to be part of The Big Read program, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
Dr. Cathy Downs, associate professor of English at Texas A&M-Kingsville, heard about the initiative and applied for the NEA Big Read grant with associate professor Victoria Packard of the A&M-Kingsville Jernigan Library. Through the grant, Downs was awarded the right for the university to serve as a community host. The other communities participating in Texas are the cities of Houston, through the Houston Library Board, and Corpus Christi, through the Friends of Corpus Christi Public Libraries. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment.
Featured novel: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya - Book availabe for Check-out at the Robert J. Kleberg Public Library!
One of the most respected works of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya tells the story of Antonio Luna Márez, a young boy who grapples with faith, identity, and death as he comes of age in New Mexico. Rudolfo Anaya's first novel follows a boy caught between childhood and adolescence, between his family and the wider world. Full of dreams, legends, and prayers, Bless Me, Ultima transports a reader to New Mexico sixty years ago when everday life was still enchanted.
Bless Me, Ultima is a coming-of-age novel about a young boy's loss of innocence and approach to maturity. But it also deals with tradition and education, faith and doubt, and good and evil. -- And if Antonio doesn't find an absolute truth in his search, he still comes to believe with his father that “sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having a sympathy for people.”
To learn more about the Big Read Program and featured novel: Bless Me, Ultima - click on link below.
Hello everyone! You may have noticed the library's redesigned Homepage. The information presented is essentially the same, but the organization is different, in part due to the tabbed navigation system. The new system allows rapid updating of information and opportunities for interaction. Perhaps of most interest to students is the creation of the Kids & Teens Page which is currently under construction. Stay tuned for the change to come.
The Robert J. Kleberg Public Library in conjuction with Texas A&M University@Kingsville is proud to be part of The Big Read program, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
