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TEX Libris The Magazine of the Fall 2019 SEMESTERAT A GLANCE SEPT. OCT. NOV. Digital Humanities Workshops Research Speed Dating UT Civic Data Hackathon OCR for Non-Roman Texts Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Saturday, November 2, 2019 Wednesday, September 4, 2019 5-6:30 p.m., 9-5 p.m., 1-2:30 p.m., 02 Perry-Castañeda Library, 02 Perry-Castañeda Library, 04 Perry-Castañeda Library, Learning Lab 1 Learning Lab 1 Data Lab Data & Donuts Digital Humanities Workshop Digital Scholars in Practice: Friday, October 4, 2019 Cleaning Structured Data Joan Neuberger 3-4:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Thursday, November 7, 2019 Perry-Castañeda Library, 1-2:30 p.m., 04 12-1:30 p.m., Learning Lab 1 11 Perry-Castañeda Library, 07 Perry-Castañeda Library, Learning Lab 3 Learning Lab 1 OER Community of Practice Lovelace Day Women in Meet-Up STEM Edit-a-thon Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Friday, September 13, 2019 Creating and Sharing OER - 9-5 p.m., 9-11 a.m., A How-To Guide Perry-Castañeda Library, Nettie Lee Benson Latin 08 Thursday, November 7, 2019 13 Learning Lab 2 American Collection, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., SRH 1.115 07 Perry-Castañeda Library, Learning Lab 4 Data & Donuts Digital Humanities Project Friday, September 13, 2019 Showcase 3-4:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 10, 2018 Perry-Castañeda Library, 3-4:30 p.m., The Fortunoff Archive for 13 Learning Lab 1 10 Perry-Castañeda Library, Holocaust Testimonies at UT Learning Lab 3 Austin: An Introductory Digital Humanities Workshop Workshop by Director Cleaning Unstructured Data Stephen Naron Wednesday, September 18, 2019 Data & Donuts 07 Thursday, November 7, 2019 1-2:30 p.m., Friday, October 11, 2019 12-2 p.m., Perry-Castañeda 18 Perry-Castañeda Library, 3-4:30 p.m., Library, Learning Lab 3 Learning Lab 3 11 Perry-Castañeda Library, Learning Lab 1 Austin Today and Tomorrow: Sinclair Black GIS Day Workshop: Introduction to the Thursday, September 19, 2019 Data & Donuts Texas GeoData Portal 5:30-6:30 p.m., Friday, October 18, 2019 19 Wednesday, November 13, 2019 MAI 212 3-4:30 p.m., 12-2 p.m., Perry-Castañeda Library, 13 Data & Donuts 18 Perry-Castañeda Library, Learning Lab 1 Friday, September 20, 2019 Learning Lab 1 and Map Room 3-4:30 p.m., 20 Perry-Castañeda Library, OER Community of Learning Lab 1 Practice Meet-Up Friday, October 18, 2019 Digital Humanities Workshop 9-11 a.m., DEC. Wednesday, September 25, 2019 18 Peter T. Flawn Academic 1-2:30 p.m., Center, 330 Perry-Castañeda Library, Holiday Reception, 25 Staff Arts & Craft Learning Lab 3 Friday, December 6, 2019 Open Access Week Trivia Film: “The Year My Parents 3-4:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 22, 2019 06 Went on Vacation” Marine Science Library 2-4 p.m., Wednesday, September 25, 2019 22 Perry-Castañeda Library lobby 7-9 p.m., 25 Perry-Castañeda Library, OER Community of Practice Learning Lab 1a Meet-Up 45th International Friday, December 6, 2019 Association of Marine 9-11 a.m., Digital Frontiers 2019 Science Librarians International Perry-Castañeda Library, Conference 20 Conference (IAMSCLIC) 06 Learning Lab 4 26 September 26-28, 2019 October 20-25, 2019 All-day, multiple locations All day, Marine Science Library, 25 Port Aransas 28 Donut Day in the Scholars Data & Donuts Commons Friday, September 27, 2019 Family Weekend: Great Texas Tuesday, December 10, 2019 3-4:30 p.m., Showcase 9-11 a.m., 27 Perry-Castañeda Library, Saturday, October 26, 2019 Perry-Castañeda Library, Learning Lab 1 26 11-2 p.m., Gregory Gym Plaza 10 Graduate Landing Spot Please visit lib.utexas.edu for more information. CONTENTS p.01 p.05 p.07 p.13 The Working Underlying All Over From Page Spelunker’s Technology The Map To Webpage Delight Libraries are such The Libraries are Many students would Friend of the Walter experts in their work leveraging the rich prefer to get to library Library Bill Mixon that they often suffer cartography collections resources from the recently donated his from invisibility. Peer of the university to comfort of their dorm unique collection behind the curtain launch a tool for rooms, but at least materials related to learn about the analyzing geospatial one faculty member is to cave and karst essential work of our data. getting his students into research, literature and information technology the archives with the culture to the Walter staff. help of our librarians. Geology Library. FEATURE The Underlying Technology Over the past year, as we’ve how a book requested through the Libraries is an ever-present gathered information and interlibrary service can arrive in supplementary resource for feedback from the campus their hands from points across the researchers at those campus community regarding the future globe in a few short days. gems. But our LIT team also of the University of Texas Libraries provides the technical backend in service of a task force convened Libraries tend not to spend much support for the HRC and Briscoe by Provost Maurie McInnis, more time or energy on boasting. Mostly Center that allows them to focus than once we’ve encountered the we’re too busy bootstrapping efforts and resources on more comment, “I wasn’t aware the the work we’re expected to essential work. We administer Libraries did that.” do. But we’re also doing the the Ransom Center’s staff portal unexpected, especially in areas that provides support for the Too often, the support that of need associated with reliance professionals that care for the libraries provide to our users goes on modern technology. So let’s center’s world-class collections. unnoticed. Much like electricity take a look at how the Libraries And our team have helped to build or running water, the services Information Technology (LIT) and manage several sites that and resources that backstop team spends their time when provide web access to the Briscoe the central work of research and they’re not keeping a website that Center’s high profile collections, learning at the university don’t get serves 10 million people a year including the archives of journalist much attention unless something running or managing the hundreds Dan Rather and former Texas prevents them from being of computers and providing Governor Bill Clements, as well available. Students routinely support for the untold volume of as providing the digital versions assume that the Libraries’ website hardware and software required of the center’s Sanborn Fire Maps just leads them to other websites by a top-tier academic library. collection. that have the articles they need. Researchers who access journals The Libraries has discernable LIT also plays a central role in directly from web searches in connections to complementary developing digital scholarship their offices can’t understand why organizations on campus like tools with researchers and going to those same links when the Harry Ransom Center and faculty from across campus, but they’re off campus generates a the Briscoe Center for American especially heavily in the area of page requesting payment for a History; the historical ties to these digital humanities. For more than resource. Users rarely conceive collections are long-standing, and 10 years, the Libraries has worked 1 in the creation and management Memorial Centre) for the Kigali Latin American Digital Initiatives of Voces, a Latinx oral history Genocide Memorial, where digital (LADI) repository represents site developed by Dr. Maggie records of the survivor testimonies multiple collections shared Rivas-Rodriguez of the Moody reside, were handled by Libraries’ through the practice of post- School of Communications; IT staff in coordination with custodial archiving to catalog Voces celebrated a relaunch Benson archivists and KMC staff. digital resources provided by our of their enhanced website last The Libraries’ also provided the southern neighbors. year. The Libraries worked with resources for the construction of Associate Professor of English and Primeros Libros, an international Beyond their hands-on expertise, Comparative Literature Geraldine effort by collecting institutions to our staff technology professionals Heng to build a web portal for to digitize the first books published have accepted roles on various the digital resources collected in the Americas. One of the most committees across campus to through the Global Middle Ages notable and controversial projects help guide university policies Project for collaboration among endeavored by the Libraries in technology and digitization, scholars to weave together was to help facilitate the digital currently holding seats on the independent work into a cohesive preservation of the Guatemalan Central IT Executive Commission resource. LIT has also worked Police Archive (AHPN), a cache and Identity & Access with Liberal Arts Instructional of over 10 million documents Management Committee. Technology Services (LAITS) that provides evidence of human to support the digital efforts of rights violations in the Central The stereotype still prevails at the Archive of the Indigenous American country between 1960- times, but it’s worth reinforcing: Languages of Latin America 1996. LIT has helped to build, the library is not simply a (AILLA), which will include maintain and enhance the web book storehouse. It is an resultant work from an National resources of this project since active participant in the digital Endowment for the Humanities its inception, ensuring that this environment, and essential – grant AILLA received last year. important record won’t be lost though much of the time, behind to sociopolitical transitions in the the curtain – to the successful Libraries technology expertise region. More recently, staff from work of others. is also deployed in service of LLILAS Benson Latin American academic units around campus in Studies and Collections and the Though the lights will on occasion support of learning and research LIT team have been building upon go off, and the water may cease to on campus, by helping to provide a project — initially funded from a flow, our committed experts doing access to departmental digital 2014 Mellon grant award — that their best to make sure that on collections.