Islanders – Mary and Jeff Bell Library Blog

Stories from the Library – Patricia Hernandez

Post author:Bell Library
Post published:June 27, 2025
Post category:Hello, from the Staff Stories from the Library

This post was originally published to @TAMUCCLibrary on Facebook and Instagram on November 8, 2024. Note: Patricia Hernandez is now our Public Services Librarian! "Picture it: middle school, late 90’s, a young girl learns she has the option to swap her P.E. class with the gloriously titled course known as “office work.” A slip of paper and a ridiculous number of signatures later and there she stood, in the entrance of her middle school library. This is where my library…

Stories from the Library – Duckie & Friday the 13th

Post author:Bell Library
Post published:June 20, 2025
Post category:Behind the Scenes Hello, from the Staff Stories from the Library

This post was first published to @TAMUCCLibrary on Facebook and Instagram on September 13, 2024. "My path in life has always been a little different. I have always been told I march to the beat of a drummer no one else has ever heard. I used to try to fit in, but I never quite did. I have always loved traditions and lore because it showed me that perhaps everyone was also struggling to fit in. They built these constructs…

Stories from the Library – Skally Benitez

Post author:Bell Library
Post published:June 18, 2025
Post category:Behind the Scenes Hello, from the Staff Stories from the Library

"I started at the I-CREATE Lab as a work-study in the summer of 2019 while pursuing my Bachelor of Fine Arts. After graduating in Spring 2021, I was hired at Del Mar College and continued to grow professionally. When I learned about an opening for a full-time Training Support Technician at the I-CREATE Lab, I knew it was the perfect fit to expand my creativity and was hired on Fall 2023. Now I’m excited to be back to my realm…

Islander Poets Interview Series – Dr. Rossy Lima

Post author:Lorin Flores
Post published:May 6, 2024
Post category:Books & More General Today's Special

Dr. Rossy Evelin Lima, an Assistant Professor in Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Humanities Department, is an esteemed writer, scholar, and translator, boasting an illustrious career marked by remarkable achievements. With three poetry collections and two children's books to her credit, Dr. Lima's literary prowess has earned her widespread acclaim, featuring in esteemed journals, magazines, and anthologies across numerous countries and languages. Notably, she is the founder of Jade Publishing and serves as the Board President and Executive Director of Latino…

Islander Poets Interview Series – Jayne-Marie Linguist

Post author:Lorin Flores
Post published:April 26, 2024
Post category:Books & More General Today's Special

Jayne-Marie Linguist is a TAMU-CC graduate student and poet from north Houston, Texas. Jayne-Marie described her work as very personal, and her poems draw on her experiences coming to terms with her identity as a fat queer woman, grief, mental illness, and her journey into fat liberation. Jayne-Marie’s poetry has been published in the Windward Review. She recently was a featured panelist in the Embodying Women’s Bodies in Writing session at the 2024 People’s Literary Festival. In this interview, Jayne-Marie…

Islander Poets Interview Series – Daunte Gaiter

Post author:Lorin Flores
Post published:April 19, 2024
Post category:Books & More General Today's Special

Daunte Gaiter is a senior majoring in Marine Biology from Dallas, Texas who describes himself as “a scientist by day and a writer by night.” Daunte’s passion is writing and reading among other things. He feels that poetry is a comfortable place to express his thoughts. Daunte’s work has appeared in the Windward Review. During the interview Daunte described the connections between word choices, word connotations, and the influence of his own personal feelings in the moment to create poems…