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Newspapers Associated with Journalist Idar Available Online

On Monday, August 14, the U.S. Mint released a quarter commemorating Mexican American journalist and activist Jovita Idar (b. Laredo, 1885–d. San Antonio, 1946) as part of its American Women Quarters program. In conjunction with this release, the Benson Latin American Collection recently…

Libraries Gain Access to New York Times for Campus Users

The University of Texas Libraries has obtained access to the New York Times on nyt.com as a campus-wide library resource. 

The New York Times (NYT) requires a paid subscription for full access to its website, NYTimes.com,…

Join the Libraries Student Advisory Committee

Do you love the Libraries and want to help? Have ideas for improvement? Make your voice heard! 

The University of Texas Libraries is seeking nominations for students to join SLAC – the Libraries Student Advisory Committee. Committee members…

Libraries Announces New Open Access Agreement with Scientific Publisher IOP

In coordination with the University of Texas System (UT System), the University of Texas Libraries has established a three-year transformative agreement (TA) with society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP). The agreement between IOPP and the UT System allows affiliated researchers…

Libraries Announce Access to Open Publishing Platform Pressbooks

The University of Texas Libraries announces access to now offers access to Pressbooks for the creation of open educational resources (OER).

Pressbooks is an open textbook creation platform allowing authors to write and publish open access books. Work can then be exported into…

AILLA Road Trip: Teaching About the Archive in Rural Oaxaca

I am a dual-degree master’s student in Latin American Studies and Information Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, working to become an academic librarian with a subject specialty in Latin American and Indigenous Studies. I had come to Oaxaca with a clear goal in mind: to teach several…

Texas Digital Library Announces Annual Awards

The Texas Digital Library (TDL) announced its annual TDL Awards at the opening plenary session of the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries on Tuesday, May 16.

The Texas Digital Library Awards honor Texas-based individuals and groups that have made outstanding contributions to the…

Rader Among Fulbright Scholar Program Grantees for 2023-2024 

AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of State and Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected four members of the staff and faculty at The University of Texas at Austin to receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2023-2024 academic year.  

Professors Tia Madkins…

Libraries' Announce 2023 Information Literacy Award Winners

The University of Texas Libraries recently announced the winners of the 2023 Signature Course Information Literacy Award. 

The award – administered by the Libraries’ Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) – recognizes exemplary student work that achieves the information literacy…

Los del Valle Oral Histories Available through Collections Portal

The Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin has made a significant oral history archive featuring voices of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and Northern Mexico available online through the Libraries’ Collections Portal.

Read more at Tex Libris.

¡A Viva Voz! to Feature Chicana/Tejana Artist Santa Barraza

The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is proud to host the 21st Annual ¡A Viva Voz! Celebration of U.S. Latino/a/x Culture, featuring a conversation with Chicana/Tejana artist Santa Barraza. 

A native of Kingsville, Texas, Santa Barraza is a contemporary artist and founder…

Winners of Inaugural Black Queer Studies Awards Named

The University of Texas Libraries recently recognized a group of student scholars for their use of a groundbreaking collection focused on Black Queer Studies.

The Libraries announced the inaugural winners of the Black Queer Studies Student Awards. The Monica K. Roberts Graduate and the…

Libraries Announce New Open Access Initiatives

The University of Texas at Austin supports a variety of open access (OA) memberships, initiatives and infrastructure with the goal of creating a more sustainable publishing ecosystem for community stakeholders. That support sometimes provides direct benefits to our authors like…

Libraries Offer Resources for New Data/Sharing Requirements

A new directive from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) strengthens data management and sharing for the results of research funded by the organization.

All researchers, regardless of funding level, seeking grants from the NIH will now be required to follow the new guidelines laid…

Libraries 2023 Open Education Fellows Announced

The University of Texas Libraries announces faculty selected for the 2023 Open Education Fellows Program.

This year’s fellows are Dr. Amanda Bush and Dr. Silvia Luongo (French & Italian), Dr. Nico Osier (Nursing) and Dr. Franco Pestilli (Psychology). Their work over the next year…