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The First Book Ever Borrowed
“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the...
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AILLA Awarded Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a Documenting Endangered Languages Preservation Grant of $227,365 to Patience Epps and Susan Smythe Kung of the Archive of the Indigenous...
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To Protect and Preserve
As we’re wrapping up Preservation Week 2018, it’s instructive to remember that at the core of the library mission, the act of preserving the vast collections of the University of Texas Libraries is one...
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Seminar Commemorates Collaboration with Guatemala on Archives and Human Rights
BY HANNAH ALPERT-ABRAMS Lea en español. Editor’s note: From the National Security Archive at George Washington University: “Guatemala’s renowned Historical Archive of the National Police (AHPN) is in...
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A Space Solution in the Distance
Texas may pride itself in being big, but as anyone around the Forty Acres these days knows, that “bigness” is finite. Back in the early 1990s, as Austin was hitting its stride in terms of growth with...
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LLILAS Benson Partnership with Puebla Archive to Yield Rich Results
Four Centuries of Rare Documents Will Be Digitized August 8, 2018, was an auspicious day for students of Mexican history. An agreement signed between LLILAS Benson and the Tribunal Superior de Justicia...
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¡Afro-Colombianos Presentes! Launching a Post-Custodial Project with the...
BY ITZA A. CARBAJAL Véase abajo para versión en español. Along the Pacific coast of Colombia lies the vibrant and growing seaport city of Buenaventura. The city also serves as home to a large portion...
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After the Flood, PCL Edition
The Perry-Castañeda Library got a bit damp from the recent wet weather. A little too damp, actually. On Friday, May 3, the Austin area experienced a series of thunderstorms beginning late in the...
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Embroidered Testimonies of Salvadoran Civil War Refugees Accessible Online
By Albert A. Palacios Over the summer, LLILAS Benson and El Salvador’s Museum of the Word and the Image (often referred to by its acronym, MUPI, for Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen) added yet another...
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Bordados testimoniales de refugiados de la Guerra Civil Salvadoreña...
Por Albert A. Palacios, Coordinador de Escolaridad Digital de LLILAS Benson Read in English Durante el verano, LLILAS Benson y el Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI) en El Salvador agregaron otra...
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