Open Education Fellows Complete Cost-Free Spanish Language Textbook
Associate Professors of Instruction Melissa D Murphy and Sarah Jey Whitehead have announced the completion of their Open Educational Resource (OER) Así me expreso: Discovering Your Spanish Proficiency. Funded in part through a 2024 Open Education Fellowship from the University of Texas…
Series on Performance as Research Launches at Fine Arts Library
The Fine Arts Library (FAL) at the University of Texas at Austin launched a new event series last spring to showcase how research across performing arts disciplines exists on and off the page, generated and elaborated through creative practices. Designed by Performing Arts Librarian Molly Roy,…
UT Libraries Announces Signature Course Information Literacy Award Winners
The University of Texas Libraries has announced the recipients of its annual Signature Course Information Literacy Award, which recognizes undergraduates who have excelled in library research. Each year, faculty members and teaching assistants nominate projects from a series of Undergraduate…
UT Libraries Named Clarivate Library Innovation Finalist
The University of Texas Libraries has been named a finalist for the inaugural Clarivate Library Innovation Awards, a program designed to recognize and support innovation by academic, national and public libraries worldwide. UT Libraries is one of nine finalists selected from 50 applicants…
UT Libraries Announces 2026 Scholars Lab Fellows
The University of Texas Libraries (UTL) has selected five individuals to receive prestigious Scholars Lab Fellowships for 2026. This competitive fellowship supports graduate students whose work leverages innovative digital tools and methodologies to address complex academic questions. By…
2025 Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowships Awarded
The University of Texas Libraries is pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of the Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowships, which support innovative scholarship drawing on the Libraries’ extensive cartographic and geospatial holdings – including the Perry-Castañeda Library (…
LLILAS Benson Launches Two New Digital Scholarship Projects
The LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Office of the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections has unveiled two new digital resources that expand access to significant holdings for teaching and research.
The Benson Latin American Collection preserves the official photographs…
Black Diaspora Archive Acquires Collection on Family Care in a Brazilian Women’s Prison
Brazil is among the top incarcerators of women worldwide, with Black women accounting for 65 percent of this population. The largest women’s prison in…
Robert H. McDonald Appointed Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries
AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin announces the appointment of Robert H. McDonald as Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries, effective August 16, 2025. McDonald currently serves as Dean of University Libraries and Senior Vice Provost of Online…
Winners of 2025 Roberts Graduate Award and the Hogan/Schell Undergraduate Award
The University of Texas Libraries recently recognized a group of student scholars for their use of our groundbreaking Black Queer Studies Collection. The Monica K. Roberts Graduate Award ($1,200 prize / $600 honorable mention) and the Hogan/Schell Undergraduate Award ($800 prize / $400…
UT System Signs Open Access Agreement with Wiley to Support Open Scholarship
The University of Texas Libraries is pleased to share that the University of Texas System has signed a new open access (OA) agreement with Wiley, one of the world’s largest academic publishers.
Effective April 28, 2025, the agreement will cover the full cost of article processing…
Libraries Announces 2024 Signature Course Information Literacy Award Winners
The University of Texas Libraries has announced the recipients of the 2024 Signature Course Information Literacy Award, which honors exceptional undergraduate work demonstrating strong research and information literacy skills developed in Signature Courses.
…2025 Affordable Education Champions Announced
2025 Affordable Education Champions Announced
The University of Texas Libraries, in collaboration with the Senate of College Councils, is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the Affordable Education Champions award.
This year’s honorees are:
Dr. Theresa Martines, …Benson Collection Acquires Archive of Andrés Caicedo
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is pleased to announce the acquisition of literary and family archives of Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo. This collection joins other important regional literary collections of writers such as César Vallejo, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Julio Cortázar…
Benson Acquires Archive of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Cristina Rivera Garza
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is pleased to announce the acquisition of the literary archive of distinguished Mexican author and professor Cristina Rivera Garza, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship. This archive enhances the Benson’s extensive collection…