A Happy Homecoming for Marine Science
A little over a year after Hurricane Harvey cause significant damage to the Marine Science Insitute at Port Aransas, the Marine Sciene Library was finally able to reopen this fall, and staff recently reconnected with the community through their temporarily-suspended holiday party.
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Alexander Archives Acquires Historic Preservation Collection
The Alexander Architectural Archives has acquired the archive of Volz & Associates, Inc. The collection contains material spanning over 40 years of architecture, interior design and consultation work focusing primarily on preserving and restoring historic buildings and interiors, with an…
Haricombe In Line for ARL Leadership Position
The Association of Research Libraries Board of Directors ratified the election of Vice Provost and University of Texas Libraries Director Lorraine J. Haricombe as incoming vice president/president-elect of ARL at the organization’s fall meeting.
The board is the governing body of the ARL…
Benson Fundraising Event Features Journalist Enrique Acevedo
The University of Texas Libraries will highlight the approaching centenary of the Latin American collections at the Benson Latin American Collection with the help of noted journalist Enrique Acevedo.
“An Evening of Discovery” will feature Acevedo discussing how the growth of Latin…
Second Annual Lone Star Zine Fest Happening 9/2
Event: Lone Star Zine Fest, a gathering of ‘zine makers and enthusiasts. This event is free and open to the public.
When: 1 p.m., Sunday, September 2.
Where: The North Door, 501 Brushy St., Austin, Texas.
Background: The Lone Star Zine Fest (www.lonestarzinefest.org) is…
Gathering Recognizes UT/Guatemalan Partnership
Representatives from LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice visited Guatemala City on July 27 for a seminar on archival partnerships between the University of Texas and Guatemalan institutions.
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Summer Support Ramps Up with Two New Endowments
The Libraries has recently received some welcome funding for collections and preservation from long-time library supporters.
Henry Jungman bolstered his ongoing support for the Libraries with the establishment of a new fund to ensure the continued acquisition of physical resources for…
UT Press Publishes Benson Book
The University of Texas Press has published the first encyclopedic examination of the renowned Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection (Benson), providing a window into the rich Latin American resources for research and study at The University of Texas at Austin.
Showcasing the…
Tex Libris: Whit's Picks - Gems from the HMRC
Resident poet and rock and roll star Harold Whit Williams has recently taken on a project to catalog the KUT Collection, obtained a few years ago and inhabiting a sizable portion of the Historical Music Recordings Collection (HMRC).
Being that he has a…
Trelogan Awarded Texas Digital Library Innovative Outreach Award
Research Data Services Coordinator Jessica Trelogan received the Innovative Outreach Award from the Texas Digital Library at the annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries which took place May 15 – 17, 2018 at the Commons Learning Center on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin, Texas…
2018 Information Literacy Awards Announced
The University of Texas Libraries have announced the winners of the 2018 Signature Course Information Literacy Award.
First place was awarded to Caroline Green, a sophomore in Theatre and Dance, for her paper “Rhapsodic Apprenticeship.” The paper was nominated by Dr. Adam Rabinowitz from…
21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional
¿Cómo le hacemos para entender 80 millones de páginas de documentos históricos?
Esta pregunta es de naturaleza filosófica. Se trata del poder de la mente para asimilar un número tan grande de documentos. El Archivo Histórico de la Policía…
Winners for "Images of Research" Competition Announced
The University of Texas Libraries announce the winners of the first "Images of Research" competition.
“Images of Research” was developed to provide undergraduate researchers from across campus with an opportunity to present a visual representation of their work in the labs, libraries…
AILLA Awarded NEH Grant for Endangered Language Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a Documenting Endangered Languages Preservation Grant of $227,365 to Patience Epps and Susan Smythe Kung of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) for support of their upcoming project entitled “…
Architecture Exhibit Celebrates a Century of Sutton Hall
The University of Texas Libraries celebrates the 100th anniversary of a Forty Acres original with the latest edition of the “To Better Know a Building” exhibition series.
Sutton Hall is the focus of the sixth installment of the To Better Know a Building exhibition series…
