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 and Extended Education at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has led transformative initiatives in digital scholarship, online learning and library services.

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.

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 charges (APCs) for UT-affiliated corresponding authors publishing in Wiley’s hybrid open access journals – those that offer authors the option to publish OA in otherwise subscription-based publications.

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

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:

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, increasing the importance of the Benson as a destination for students, faculty, and researchers from the United States, Latin America, and beyond.