Libraries Announce 2020 Information Literacy Awards
The University of Texas Libraries has announced the winners of the 2020 Signature Course Information Literacy Award.
The award recognizes exemplary student work that achieves the learning outcomes of the Signature Course information literacy requirement. Winning entrants demonstrated an…
Digital Preservation and AILLA
In honor of World Digital Preservation Day, members of the University of Texas Libraries’ Digital Preservation team have written a series of blog posts to highlight preservation activities at UT Austin, and to explain why the stakes are so high in our ever-changing digital and technological…
Remembering Ernesto Cardenal
Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet, priest, and revolutionary, died in Managua on Sunday, March 1. He was 95.
Admired and controversial, Cardenal was a towering figure in Central American culture and politics. As Nicaragua’s minister of culture under the Sandinista government, which…
Libraries Launches Ex Libris Alma/Primo as Library Services Platform
The University of Texas Libraries launched a new library services platform from vendor Ex Libris this January that will make organizing and accessing library resources easier than ever before.
The system is distinguished by a unified suite of tools featuring a user discovery component –…
Libraries Launch Campaign to Collect User Stories
Even with over 10 million books, the University of Texas Libraries are looking for some new stories.
The Libraries have launched the “Libraries Because” campaign to encourage users to be part of the cause of libraries by submitting their personal stories of how they’ve been impacted by…
CMAS at 50: A Legacy of Scholarship, Teaching, and Service
Founded in 1970, the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) at The University of Texas at Austin benefited from Chicano student activism of the 1960s. Members of the Mexican American Student Organization (MASO) and later the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) demanded equitable…
Libraries Receive NEH Grant to Help Develop Multilingual Transcription
A grant of over $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities is going to help the University of Texas Libraries contribute to the customization of a Wikipedia-like platform for the collaborative transcription, translation and indexing of archival texts in non-English languages.
…Campus Collections Initiate Cultural Partnership with $500,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
The University of Texas Libraries, the Blanton Museum of Art and the Harry Ransom Center have been awarded a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a collective digital infrastructure at The University of Texas at Austin that will provide expanded digital access to the…
Lebermann Foundation Establishes Endowment to Boost Libraries’ Technologies
Late last fall, the Lebermann Foundation contributed $250,000 for the creation of the “Lowell H. Lebermann Jr. Endowment” to enable the UT Libraries to keep apace of ever-evolving technology, provide funding for modifying spaces and services to the changing natures…
Tocker Foundation Funds Development of Textbook Alternatives Among Austin Partners
The University of Texas Libraries received a generous gift from the Austin-area Tocker Foundation that will support the development of digital teaching and learning resources through a partnership with Austin Community College and the Austin Public Library.
The Foundation has provided $…
New Exhibit Features Cuban Comics of the Castro Era
The publishing industry of Cuba experienced a seismic shift in 1959 when Fidel Castro won a revolutionary war against dictator Fulgencio Batista. With this change, underground and subversive media creators of the Batista era became an important part of the new socialist culture. This helped to…
Libraries Launch Access Tool for Digital Collections
The vast digitized collections of the University of Texas Libraries are becoming increasingly available through a new web portal.
A new access point on the Libraries’ website – the Collections portal – allows users to undertake remote research and study utilizing rich resources that have…
Libraries Launch Texas GeoData Portal
The University of Texas Libraries are leveraging technological advances in geographic information systems (GIS) to enhance the value of map collections at The University of Texas at Austin with the recent launch of a new portal designed to facilitate discovery of geospatial datasets that are…
Report of the Task Force on the Future of UT Libraries Released
The report of the Task Force on the Future of UT Libraries has been submitted to Provost Maurie McInnis. You can view the report at the following link: https://utexas.app.box.com/v/future-of-ut-libraries-report
For background and more information on the Task Force,…
LLILAS Benson Collaborates on Remote Translation and Transcription of Colonial Documents
On September 21, 2019, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and the New Orleans Jazz Museum joined forces to make their colonial collections a bit more accessible. The two institutions led a joint transcribe-a-thon that convened community members in person at the Louisiana…
