Statistical Overview of the Library Collections
Library Help with Faculty Recruiting
Classes in Using the Library
Serials Cancellations Report
Faculty and Staff Book Exhibit
Most-Requested Inter-Library-Loan Journals
UT Club Book Purchases
Library Loan Period for Undergraduates Increased
Geology Library Renovations
Former Guatemalan Vice-President to Open Exhibit of his Papers
Recent Significant Acquisitions: Microfilm, Print & Electronic
The UT libraries have the 5th largest library collection in the United States. The library ranks 14th in acquisitions expenditures, 6th in Circulation, and 1st in students supported. For more comparative information see the Statistical Overview of the Library Collections.
Library bibliographers are always available to talk or give tours to faculty being interviewed or recruited for campus positions. Contact your library bibliographer for more information.
A schedule of free classes in using library resources is available. Approximately 12,000 students and faculty attend classes covering library resources each year.
During the Spring and Summer of 2002, the library consulted with faculty and students across campus in order to make decisions on canceling $93,000 worth of serials subscriptions out of total serials expenditures of $6 million. 555 titles were selected with the cancellations to take effect beginning in January 2003. 71% of the cancellations involved subscriptions where the library received both a electronic & print version of the title. In those cases where significant financial savings were possible and future electronic access was guaranteed, the print version was cancelled and the electronic version was maintained. This is the third year in a row the library has reduced serial subscriptions in order to stay within its budget. In 2002 the library cancelled 214 subscriptions, and in 2000 it cancelled 976 titles. These earlier cancellations were of duplicate titles only, and did not cause a loss of scholarly content on campus. If you have any questions about specific titles please contact your library bibliographer.
Faculty and Staff are invited to lend a copy of their books published during the last year for this year's annual exhibit. For more information see the Faculty/Staff Book Exhibit page.
The following journals were the titles most frequently
requested by UT faculty and students on Inter-Library loan last year. The
costs of a subscription are in parenthesis.
Folia Primtolgica ($560)
Maritime Policy and Management ($342)
Sociobiology ($100)
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ($6,000)
Neuroreport ($2,800)
Journal of Applied Social Psychology ($679)
International Journal of Thermophysics ($1,128)
Aids Care ($1420)
Journal of Social Behavior and Personality ($70)
Journal of Synthetic Lubrication ($520)
(Librarians routinely examine all journals requested through inter-library
loan to see if a subscription is warranted. Hundreds of such inter-library
loan titles are currently being analyzed)
The library received $41,000 from the UT Club at Darrell Royal Memorial Stadium through the efforts of former President Peter Flawn and Vice President and Dean of Graduate Studies, Teresa Sullivan. The payments were made to the University for housing the club from 1999-2001. The funds were used to purchase over 400 books for the library covering all subject areas (including fiction), but with an emphasis on material of a wide or inter-disciplinary interest.
The library loan period for undergraduates has been increased to 28 days.
The Walter Geology Library is now undergoing a major renovation scheduled to be completed in January, 2003. Books and journals are being moved to a closed storage location. Geology Library staff, with the assistance of the Department of Geological Sciences, will be paging materials to the Geology Library site, with the goal of providing one working-day turnaround for most requests by library users. More information on library renovations.
Former Guatemalan Vice-President, Roberto Carpio Nicolle will be honored at a reception on September 25 to mark the opening of an exhibit of his library and papers that were recently acquired by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. More information on the acquisition.
Most of the significant print and microfilm acquisitions listed below were funded by the UT System Academic Library Collection Enhancement Program.
MICROFILM:
Atlanta Constitution
Black Newspaper Collection (in process)
British Parliamentary Papers of Commons Sessional papers 1731-1913,
Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Record Central America: El
Salvador, 1930-1959
Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Record Central America: Honduras, 1930-1959
Colonial Discourse Series One: Women, Travel & Empire, 1660-1914
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files.Cuba. 1930-1963
Confidential U.S. Diplomatic Post Records THE MIDDLE EAST
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files EGYPT:
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files IRAN:
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files IRAQ:
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Mexico 1960-63
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Nicaragua, 1945-1959
Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Panama, 1930-1949
Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files SAUDI ARABIA
Da gong bao, Tianjin edition, 1902.6-1949.1 (newspaper)
Early American Newspapers,
Film Daily & Film Daily Yearbook The Complete Collection, 1915-1970
Financial Times (London, England)
Japan Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders,
Travellers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1853-1941
Jerusalem Post 1948 - 1983
Jeune Afrique (1990-2001)
Jewish Daily Forward
Latin American History and Culture: An Archival Record Series I &II
(in process)
Marburger Index.
Music Manuscripts from the Great English Collections
North American Congress on Latin America
Papers of the U.S. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment
of Civilians
Reformed Protestantism Sources of the 16th and 17th Century
Ruth First Papers
San Francisco Chronicle
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Taiwan ri ri xin bao (newspaper)
Three Centuries of Drama
Western Books: The Middle East from the Rise of Islam
Western American Frontier History
Women and Victorian Values, 1837-1910 Advice Books, Manuals and
Journals for Women
Zheng xin xin wen (newspaper)
Afghanistan Strategic Intelligence: British Records 1919-1970
Benelux Art Index: Pictorial Documentation on art in Belgium
Roberto Carpio Nicolle papers
Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry
Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization
Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Japan Punch
Le Monde Indexes
Senzenki shakai jigyo kihon bunkenshu
Treatise on Geochemistry
US Population Census 1790-1920 (reprint)
ELECTRONIC (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/):
Computer Literature Index
Gerritsen Collection, Women's History Online 1543-1945
HarpWeek (Harpers Weekly) 1857-1912
Faulkner Advisory of IT Studies
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (funded by Mitsubishi Endowment of
the Center for Asian Studies)
Salud Para Todos (health information, funded by TexShare)
Sexual Diversity Studies
Statistical Universe
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