2025 Affordable Education Champions Announced
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:
Dr. Theresa Martines, …Benson Collection Acquires Archive of Andrés Caicedo
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…
Benson Acquires Archive of Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Cristina Rivera Garza
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is pleased to announce the acquisition of the literary archive of distinguished Mexican author and professor Cristina Rivera Garza, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship. This archive enhances the Benson’s extensive collection…
Latino USA Radio Program Episodes Published
More than 160 digitized episodes of Latino USA, the newsmagazine of Latino news and culture founded at UT in 1993, have been published by the Benson Latin American Collection. Published records include metadata and transcriptions for the episodes, which are available to the public on the open-…
Architecture Library Named for Texas’ First Black Architect
AUSTIN, Texas — Jan. 23, 2025 — Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court integrated American higher education with its 1950 Sweatt v. Painter decision, John Chase, a Black student, enrolled in the School of Architecture at The University of Texas. Now, the library at the heart of that school…
Ernesto Cardenal's Centennial
The papers of Nicaragua's beloved poet-priest-politician reside at UT's Benson Latin American Collection; January 20, 2025, is the centennial of his birth.
Read more at Tex Libris.
Announcing the 2024 Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowships
The University of Texas Libraries announced the recipients of the 2024 Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowships at the annual GIS Day event held in the Scholars Lab at the Perry-Castañeda Library on Wednesday, November 20.
The fellowships, established to support…
Libraries Announces 2025 Open Education Fellows
The University of Texas Libraries is proud to announce the 2025 cohort of Open Education Fellows, an initiative supporting the development of open educational resources (OER) to enhance student success and reduce the financial burden of course materials.
This year’s distinguished fellows…
Benson Acquires Paper of Paraguayan Author Roa Bastos
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the literary archives of César Vallejo and Augusto Roa Bastos, two giants of Latin American letters. These archives augment the Benson’s already significant collection of materials that represent the…
Benson Acquires Archive of Peruvian Poet Vallejo
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the archives of César Vallejo and Augusto Roa Bastos, two giants of Latin American letters. These archives augment the Benson’s already significant collection of materials that represent the region’s…
Announcing the Inaugural Scholars Lab Fellows
The University of Texas Libraries announces the inaugural Scholars Lab Fellows, winners of a competitive fellowship supporting graduate students and researchers whose work leverages innovative digital tools and methodologies to address complex academic questions.
Fellows receive…
Important Changes Coming to Federally Funded Research
We want to bring your attention to an important upcoming policy change that will impact how we manage and share our research at The University of Texas at Austin.
In August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued new guidance—commonly referred to as the…
Apply for the Open Education Fellows Program Now
The University of Texas Libraries invites applications for the Open Education Fellows Program, a stipend-support fellowship which supports faculty who will adopt and create open educational resources (OER).
Through this program, the Libraries partners with faculty to reduce the cost of…
New Benson Exhibit Features Materials from 25 Years of VOCES
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is proud to join in celebrating the 25th anniversary of the VOCES Oral History Center, part of the School of Journalism at the Moody College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin.
In honor of this important milestone, this…
Director of University of Texas Libraries and Open Access Champion Lorraine Haricombe Announces Retirement
AUSTIN, Texas—Lorraine J. Haricombe, an innovating leader in academic libraries, has announced her retirement as Director and Vice Provost of the University of Texas Libraries, marking the conclusion of a distinguished career spanning decades. She will conclude her tenure on August 31, 2025.…
