Archive for: UT libraries

 

UT’s New Library Director Wants to Make Information More Free

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With more than 10 million books and other holdings, the UT-Austin library system is one of the largest in the country. A mind-boggling 2.5 million people use UT...

 
 

UT Libraries Scores Treasure Trove of Music

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UT music lovers are in for quite a treat. A collection of nearly 60,000 CDs and more than 4,000 LPs from past decades is the newest and grooviest addition to the...

 
 

Students Relieve Stress With Dry-Erase Drawings [Slideshow]

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Can’t see this slideshow? Click here. Ah, finals—that point in the semester when college students seem more like zombies than human beings, pulling all-nighters...

 
 

Writing on the Wall

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Can’t see the slideshow? Click here. When you ask him to describe one of the best things he’s seen in his nine years working at the Perry-Castañeda Library,...

 
 

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My Life in the Stacks: For Your Reference

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Award-winning writers in Texas have a secret weapon. The array of unexpected delights gathered within UT’s library system shouldn’t have come as a surprise...

 
 

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My Life in the Stacks

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One insatiable writer plumbs the depths of UT’s library system. I like to say that the universe gave me the two gifts essential to becoming a writer: a bad childhood...

 
 

New PCL Space Gives Students What They Want: More Power

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“Buzzing” and “bustling” are probably not words one would use to describe UT’s Perry-Casteneda Library (PCL) on an average Tuesday...

 
 

UT, A&M Open Joint Library. Yes, Really.

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A joint UT-A&M library aims to help both universities keep costs down—and give students in the PCL more electrical outlets. A once dusty lot in College Station...

 
 

Celebrating Longhorns’ Dry-Erase Doodles

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UT Libraries project specialist Frank Meaker makes the rounds at UT’s Perry-Castañeda Library every day, checking on maintenance tasks like leaky pipes and...

 
 
 
 
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