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…
Field Notes Photography Exhibition Showcases Student Research in Latin America
Each fall, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections invites graduate and undergraduate students from all departments and disciplines across the university to submit photographs to the Field Notes student photography exhibition. Thirty images are chosen for display…
Embroidered Testimonies of Salvadoran Civil War Refugees Accessible Online
Over the summer, LLILAS Benson and El Salvador’s Museum of the Word and the Image (often referred to by its acronym, MUPI, for Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen) added yet another digital initiative to their long-standing partnership. Since 2012, the two institutions have worked closely to…
Libraries Deploying Digital Asset Management System
Staff who create and manage digital resources at the University of Texas Libraries will now be able to more effectively preserve and provide access to these collections thanks to the introduction of a new digital asset management system (DAMS). Digital files along with descriptive metadata are…
New Library Search Tools Coming in January 2020
The University of Texas Libraries announces the launch of new library search tools coming in January 2020.
The new tools – designed specifically for use in libraries – will replace the Libraries’ current resource management system with a more robust option that will improve…
Texas Digital Library Receives Planning Grant for Secure Data Preservation Project
The Texas Digital Library and a group of partners recently received an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to support the development of the first nationally distributed digital preservation (DDP) service for sensitive data.
The IMLS award of $87,384 will fund the…
