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News & Events
We'd like to invite you to share some of the best things about being involved with UTA
Libraries. Learn about upcoming exhibits, take a look at our publications, including
newsletters, monographs, and articles, check out the calendar for upcoming events, and
catch up on the latest developments at Special Collections.
 Special
Collections Exhibitions- New Online Exhibits are now open.
Special Collection install exhibits in the division each semester on the sixth floor of the Central Library.
These are open to
the public during Special Collections hours. Exhibits are then placed
online exhibits and will be available on the Online
Exhibits page.
- Publications
- The Compass Rose, a semi-annual
newsletter, includes articles highlighting the Division's holdings and activities. Recent
issues focused on photograph collections of local importance, atlas donations spanning
two-hundred years, and the papers of a prominent Dallas businessman.
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- Upcoming
Events
- The Virginia Garrett Lectures in the History of
Cartography, a biannual event, is held at The University of Texas at Arlington
Libraries in early October. The next session is scheduled for October
1, 2004. Check the web site to see who will
be speaking and find out about associated events.
Continue to watch this space for news about events in Special Collections.
Texas Map Society:
Next meeting will be held on Saturday, October 2, 2004, at The
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Program of speakers and a registration
form will be available soon on the TMS
web site.- Be sure to check out the web site for membership information!
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- What's New
- News and descriptions of the latest acquisitions by the Division.
Recent highlighted items include two recently acquired manuscript
collections relating to the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 and its
aftermath. The Lt. Delaney Floyd-Jones Letters, 1846-1862, with
forty-one autographed letters, and the Lt. Joseph Bennett Plummer Copy
Letter Book, 1849-1853, with three hundred letters, are rich additions
to the comprehensive collection of Mexican War materials held in Special
Collections.
- Special Collections also has recently acquired "the first book devoted entirely to Texas."
The book, Juan
Antonio de la Peña's, Derrotero de la Expedición en la Provincia de los
Texas..., produced in 1722, provides a detailed description of the reoccupation
expedition led by the Marques de Aguayo in response to the French invasion of
1719, and is said to contain the first maps relating entirely to locations
within Texas. The report is one of only eleven copies in
existence and
contains four engraved maps depicting presidios of the region.
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- Other UTA Sites of
Interest
- Friends of UTA Libraries:
Includes information on upcoming events and programs sponsored by the Friends.
Texas Map Society:
One of only a few societies in the United States, the Texas Map Society was organized to
foster the study, understanding and collecting of historical maps and cartography. Check
out their site for information on meetings and sponsored events as well as viewing of the
society's newsletter Neatline.
Cartographic
Connections:
A project, sponsored by the Houston Endowment, Inc. and The University of Texas at
Arlington, that brings together UTA staff and faculty, the resources of Special
Collections at UTA Libraries, and a selected group of highly qualified teachers
from across the state. Their task is to identify curriculum needs and devise strategies
that meet those needs through the use of historic maps. The site
includes seventy-five high resolution map.
Special Collections
The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Phone: (817) 272-3393 * Fax: (817) 272-3360 * E-mail:
Reference
Desk
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