LLILAS Benson Launches Curriculum Site
In the spring of 2019, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections partnered with the Urban Teachers Program at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education to develop and provide free, online access to high school lesson plans. The goal…
Benson Acquires Archive of Nobel Laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the Miguel Ángel Asturias Papers. Asturias, the 1967 Nobel Laureate in Literature from Guatemala, was an instrumental precursor to the Latin American Boom. A prolific writer of poetry, short stories,…
Remembering Dennis Trombatore
Long-time Geology librarian and revered Libraries’ icon Dennis Trombatore passed away July 18, 2020, after an extended illness.
His 35-year tenure as the fifth Geology Librarian at the university is remembered as a period of prosperity for the library and the Jackson School of…
Digital Stewardship Provides Failsafe for Archives
The UT Libraries’ Digital Stewardship unit supports digital preservation work across the University of Texas Libraries. When Libraries repositories, such as the Alexander Architectural Archives, LLILAS Benson, or the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America begin new…
Digital Stewardship Provides Failsafe Preservation for Archives
The UT Libraries’ Digital Stewardship unit supports digital preservation work across the University of Texas Libraries. When Libraries repositories, such as the Alexander Architectural Archives, LLILAS Benson, or the Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America begin new…
Indigenous Language Archive Opens Unique Amazonian Collection
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) is pleased to announce the opening of the Baniwa of the Aiary and Içana Collection of Robin M. Wright. The materials in this collection cover research Wright conducted from 1976 to the present among the Baniwa,…
New Collections Available in Latin American Digital Repository
More than 60 thousand scanned images from seven archival collections throughout Latin America are now available online in the updated Latin American Digital Initiatives (LADI) repository (ladi.lib.utexas.edu). The site was developed over the course of two years by the LLILAS Benson Digital…
Students Bring "Hidden" Pre-Colombian Artifacts to Light
Students in Astrid Runggaldier’s Art and Archaeology of Ancient Peru class were tasked with an intriguing project this spring: take a collection of pre-colonial objects that is, for all intents and purposes, invisible, and make it visible using digital tools. Their efforts have come to fruition…
International Collaboration Conserves Indigenous Records in Mexico
An international team of archivists and historians has successfully completed the digitization and cataloging of 194 libros de hijuelas (deed books) that record statewide privatization of indigenous lands in nineteenth-century Michoacán, Mexico. The project,…
Winners for 2020 "Images of Research" Competition Announced
The University of Texas Libraries announce the winners of the 2020 Images of Research competition.
Images of Research celebrates undergraduate contributions to the research mission of the university by giving undergraduate researchers from across campus an opportunity to present a…
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…
