Major Events Timeline

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.

1919, Spring. Administration building (now Ransom Hall) completed and library is housed there.

1926. North Texas Agricultural College. New library built (now College Hall).

1964. Arlington State College. Two floors and basement of present library open, at a cost of $1.5 million.

1969. Automated punch-card checkout system goes on-line.

1972. Minority Cultures Collection (MCC) established.

1974. Opening of special collections on Sixth Floor of Central Library.

1986, September. Retroconversion contract signed with AMIGOS.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.
Year in Review     Friends of the Libraries Highlights   Gaze Back Over a Century   Facts and Figures  

Timeline   List of Friends and Donors      Staff Accomplishments    Staff Awards

 

UTA Libraries Publications UTA Libraries PULSe University of Texas at Arlington