LC-2025-11: Tech Library

On October 9, 2025, the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai. If apocalyptic terror set in a small Hungarian town sounds right up your alley, check out The Melancholy of Resistance on display, along with two of his best known works, Satantago and Herscht 07769.

Also on display are titles from award recipients Han Kang (2024), Jon Fosse (2023), Annie Ernaux (2022), Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021), Louise Glück (2020), Peter Handke (2019), Olga Tokarczuk (2018), and Kazuo Ishiguro (2017). Get them while they are Forró! Varm! Gorący!

From now until August 2026, the Ross Pendergraft Library is offering a free trial of the AI-powered academic search engine, Consensus, to all Arkansas Tech University students, faculty, and staff.

Drawing on millions of research articles, Consensus gives users the ability to 'chat' with scholarly, peer-reviewed papers, summarize results, and find a 'consensus' in the literature when it is asked “yes” or “no” questions.

To try it out at https://consensus.app/. To access the enterprise level features available through the library, create an account using your atu.edu email. For more details, see the library’s latest blog post.

The ATU Media Production Labs offer digitization services. Access the price list. However, there is a cheaper option: come with your analog media, and we will teach you how to digitize it yourself by using the lab's material.

We can also share our best practices for organizing and preserving digital information. Select analog equipment is readily available for public use for the most common forms of media requested.

Possible projects: photographs, 35 mm mounted slides, and negatives into PNG files; cassette tapes or vinyls (45 and 33 rpm) into MP3 files, or reformatting of CD audio or DVD video into digital file (lossy and lossless formats).

Have you checked out the U.S Congressional Serials Set, containing more than 17,000 fully indexed volumes, through the library’s HeinOnline database?

This rich collection includes The American State Papers (1789-1838), Congressional Serial Set (1817-2017), and recent Congressional documents and reports (2018-2025). If you are fascinated by history or looking for ways to connect your students to primary sources related to historical events in the U.S., browse through HeinOnline’s Secrets of the Serials Set blog series.

Photo citation: Detroit Publishing Co., P., Jackson, W. H., photographer. Capitol, Washington, D.C., The. Washington D. C. United States District of Columbia. [Between 1880 and 1897] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016797583/.

The library has a collection of over 5,800 DVDs and Blu-rays in one location.

While browsing is available, there is an online tool allowing you to preselect the film genre of your interest. Whether you are watching for leisure or for academic purpose, we have a great selection.

Are you looking for a movie in Italian, in Spanish, or maybe in German? What about a Film Noir, or a Western, or even a Vampire TV series. Movies for academic purposes include, but are not limited to, documentaries, nature films, and biographical films.