The Texas Digital Library announces the 2024 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries taking place at the Commons Conference Center at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, May 21-23, 2024. 

The goal of the Conference is to bring together those working on digital projects — including outreach librarians, repository managers, catalogers, faculty members, technical staff, and others — in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries. 

AUSTIN, Texas — Open source code development has changed the face of science. It allows researchers to make publicly funded scientific research transparent, inclusive, accessible and reproducible.

To maximize the social and economic impact of open source software in research and education, The University of Texas at Austin has launched the Open Source Program Office, a central hub for open source activity, connection, training and support to enable open source practices as a key part of the University.

The University of Texas Libraries invites applications for the Open Education Fellows Program to support faculty who will adopt and create open educational resources (OER). The goal of this program is to reduce the cost of required course materials for UT Austin students and empower instructors to adapt or create course materials that meet their pedagogical goals. 

The University of Texas Libraries announces the Second Annual Black Queer Studies Collection Student Awards. This annual prize celebrates UT’s Black Queer Studies Collection and recognizes our students’ scholarship and creativity inspired by it. Two student awards are presented each year.

AUSTIN, Texas — The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of prominent Nicaraguan writer and activist Gioconda Belli. 

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas Libraries announces the official opening of the highly-anticipated Scholars Lab on Thursday, October 5, 2023. 

This technology-forward facility represents a significant step in supporting interdisciplinary research, collaboration and innovation for students, faculty and researchers of all levels at The University of Texas at Austin.

Austin, TEXAS – The University of Texas Libraries, in partnership with the Office of Vice President for Research, Scholarship and Creative Endeavors, is proud to announce the Texas Open Science Summit (TOSS) to be held on September 20, 2023. TOSS is a half-day program that marks the celebration of 2023 being designated as the Year of Open Science.

The University of Texas Libraries has implemented an additional tool to improve readability of online content on both public and staff devices across campus. 

OpenDyslexic is a typeface designed to increase readability for people with dyslexia, now available as a Google Chrome extension and system font on all Libraries’ Windows & macOS public devices. The Chrome extension will convert most text on any webpage into the OpenDyslexic typeface.

Two upcoming exhibitions at the Benson Latin American Collection will focus on Chile in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the violent coup that overthrew the government of democratically elected president Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.

Read more at Tex Libris.

On Monday, August 14, the U.S. Mint released a quarter commemorating Mexican American journalist and activist Jovita Idar (b. Laredo, 1885–d. San Antonio, 1946) as part of its American Women Quarters program. In conjunction with this release, the Benson Latin American Collection recently published three issues of two newspapers that are associated with Idar. Together, these publications represent some of the earliest examples of Mexican American journalism.