Major Events Timeline
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| Arlington Training School. This building housed the library, business offices, science labs, and literary society halls. |
1915, Fall.Arlington Training School. Two-story frame building constructed to house library (the same building held science labs, a business office, and literary society halls).
1917, Summer. Grubbs Vocational College, affiliated with A&M. Academic building still houses library which contained “about $500 worth of books.” The annual student library and lab fee was $2.50.
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| Ransom Hall in background, left. |
1919, Spring. Administration building (now Ransom Hall) completed and library is housed there.
1926. North Texas Agricultural College. New library built (now College Hall).
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| The new library opened in 1964 with a basement and two above ground floors. |
1964. Arlington State College. Two floors and basement of present library open, at a cost of $1.5 million.
Late 1960's. Four more floors were added to the Central library by the
end of the decade.
1969. Automated punch-card checkout system goes on-line.
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| 1968? Sixth floor of Central Library. |
1972. Minority Cultures Collection (MCC) established.
1974. Opening of special collections on Sixth Floor of Central Library.
1986, September. Retroconversion contract signed with AMIGOS.
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| Automated punch cards were introduced in 1969. |
1986, November. Ceased production of author and title catalog cards.
Installation of NOTIS.
1987, August. All card catalogs closed except Special Collections (also Central Serials and shelflists).
Cataloging began in electronic catalog NOTIS.
1987. New Art & Architecture Library is moved to the Architecture Building.
1987, August. Barcodes appear.
1987. Friends of the UTA Libraries organized.
 1988, February. Begin testing LUIS, the first electronic card catalog.
1989, Spring. Materials on 3rd floor moved to the new Science & Engineering Library.
1989, Summer. Music materials moved to AAL (Currently AFA).
1989, Fall. Keyword search in Boolean format available to public.
Microforms moved to the basement.
Current periodicals moved to the basement.
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| Gloria Van Zant (left) and Betty Nedderman present a check from the Friends of the UTA Libraries to Charles Lowry, library director, in 1987. |
1990, Spring. Law collection moved to its present location on 2nd floor.
Compact shelving installed on the 2nd floor.
1990, Fall. New reference desk installed on 2nd floor.
Minority Cultures Collection (MCC) moved to the 2nd floor.
Special Collections card catalog closed.
1991-1992. Began mediated search for Dow-Jones.
INVESTEST was introduced (a stand alone workstation with company financial reports).
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| One millionth volume
reception. ˇˇˇLibertad, Constitucion, y
Federacion!!! is an 1835 broadsheet that appealed to citizens of Coahuila and Texas to resist General Santa Anna. |
1993-1994. Introduction of CD-ROM products: Dallas Morning News, Moody’s, GeoRef, and Social Work Abstracts.
MAVInfo was named for the public use workstations for LUIS & CD-ROM LAN (local area network).
The FirstSearch database and the UTA Gopher became available to public.
1995-1996. New databases added were: America: History and Life, CorpTech, Ethnic Newswatch, Sport Discus, Statistical Masterfile for Central Library, Art Index for AFA.
Compendex was added to SEL on the stand-alone workstation.
1996, Fall. MavInfo dedications at AFA and SEL.
1996. One millionth volume celebration.
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| Jenkins and Virginia Garrett at the one millionth volume celebration in 1996. |
1996-1997. New databases added were: Linguistics & Language behavior Abstracts, College Source, Historical Abstracts, Chicano Index for Central Library. Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals for AFA, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts for SEL.
Departmental homepages were up.
1997. Began to respond to email reference queries.
1997. Virginia Garrett donates map and atlas collection.
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| UTA President Robert Witt, William Cunningham, UT System Chancellor, and Mrs. Virginia Garrett at the donation of Mrs. Garrett's map collection, October 1997. |
1998, January. Voyager ASCII OPAC became available.
1998, March. Voyager Web OPAC became available.
IDEAL, first full-text, full image e-journal from Academic Press became Available.
Grove’s Dictionary of Art became available.
1999, Spring. EBL (Electronic Business Library) began to staff 15 hrs weekly.
1999, Summer. Riverbend campus began to offer classes. Three computers were placed in the library for student access.
Librarians extended outreach to that campus.
2000, Spring. E-reserve was implemented.
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