Gathering Recognizes UT/Guatemalan Partnership
Representatives from LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections and the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice visited Guatemala City on July 27 for a seminar on archival partnerships between the University of Texas and Guatemalan institutions.
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Summer Support Ramps Up with Two New Endowments
The Libraries has recently received some welcome funding for collections and preservation from long-time library supporters.
Henry Jungman bolstered his ongoing support for the Libraries with the establishment of a new fund to ensure the continued acquisition of physical resources for…
UT Press Publishes Benson Book
The University of Texas Press has published the first encyclopedic examination of the renowned Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection (Benson), providing a window into the rich Latin American resources for research and study at The University of Texas at Austin.
Showcasing the…
Tex Libris: Whit's Picks - Gems from the HMRC
Resident poet and rock and roll star Harold Whit Williams has recently taken on a project to catalog the KUT Collection, obtained a few years ago and inhabiting a sizable portion of the Historical Music Recordings Collection (HMRC).
Being that he has a…
Trelogan Awarded Texas Digital Library Innovative Outreach Award
Research Data Services Coordinator Jessica Trelogan received the Innovative Outreach Award from the Texas Digital Library at the annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries which took place May 15 – 17, 2018 at the Commons Learning Center on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin, Texas…
2018 Information Literacy Awards Announced
The University of Texas Libraries have announced the winners of the 2018 Signature Course Information Literacy Award.
First place was awarded to Caroline Green, a sophomore in Theatre and Dance, for her paper Rhapsodic Apprenticeship. The paper was nominated by Dr. Adam Rabinowitz from the…
21 años de paz, 21 millones de documentos: Una reflexión sobre el portal digital del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional
¿Cómo le hacemos para entender 80 millones de páginas de documentos históricos?
Esta pregunta es de naturaleza filosófica. Se trata del poder de la mente para asimilar un número tan grande de documentos. El Archivo Histórico de la Policía…
Winners for "Images of Research" Competition Announced
The University of Texas Libraries announce the winners of the first Images of Research competition.
Images of Research was developed to provide undergraduate researchers from across campus with an opportunity to present a visual representation of their work in the labs, libraries and…
AILLA Awarded NEH Grant for Endangered Language Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a Documenting Endangered Languages Preservation Grant of $227,365 to Patience Epps and Susan Smythe Kung of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) for support of their upcoming project entitled “…
Architecture Exhibit Celebrates a Century of Sutton Hall
The University of Texas Libraries celebrates the 100th anniversary of a Forty Acres original with the latest edition of the “To Better Know a Building” exhibition series.
Sutton Hall is the focus of the sixth installment of the To Better Know a Building exhibition series…
Call for Thoma Latin American Art Scholars
In collaboration With the Thoma Foundation and the Blanton Museum of Art, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections is pleased to announce a call/ call for proposals for the grants Thoma for Research in Virreinal Arte Latinoamericano (Thoma Visiting Scholars in Spanish…
UT Libraries Launches New Search Tool
The Libraries has launched a new beta search tool that offers an easy way to find a variety of library resources, services and tools in a single search.
This new beta search tool improves upon our existing search by taking your one search term and providing a sample of results from our…
Art Historian Barnitz Honored with Event, Exhibit
The Benson Latin American Collection is pleased to announce the acquisition of the archive of Jacqueline Barnitz (1923–2017). The life and collection of the late art historian and professor emeritus will be celebrated in the Benson’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Reading Room on Tuesday, March 27,…
Excessive Noise Turns Six with "Green Paw"
Excessive Noise is an occasional concert series hosted by the Fine Arts Library. Organized by Russell Podgorsek — who earned his doctorate at the Butler School of Music and is an employee of the Fine Arts Library — the series provides students with an opportunity to perform chamber and…
Alexander Archive Acquires Buildings of Texas Collection
The Alexander Architectural Archives at the Architecture and Planning Library has acquired source materials for a publication that provides a comprehensive survey of architecture in the Lone Star State.
“The Buildings of Texas” (University of Virginia Press) — part of the Society of…