Space & Service Transformation

The University of Texas Libraries begin the new year looking forward with a gathering of experts and advocates to consider the future of libraries.

“Re-think it: Libraries for a New Age” is a national conference that brings together academic, public and K-12 librarians, administrators, technologists, architects, designers, furniture manufacturers and educators to collectively re-think the increasingly important role libraries play in the communities they serve.

Undergraduates will now have the same loan period as all other campus patrons of the University of Texas Libraries.

Beginning December 1, the loan duration for materials will extend from 28 days to a semester-long period, allowing students greater time to focus on learning and less on managing access to resources.

On Thursday, October 12, representatives of the Libraries joined College of Fine Arts Dean Doug Dempster and Provost Maurie McInnis to fete the opening of space on the fourth floor of the Fine Arts Library redeveloped to serve as a home for the newly announced School of Design and Creative Technologies.The renovation project, which took place over the summer, resulted in the creation of state-of-the-art classrooms with adap