Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI)

The Fort Worth UTA Campus

By Antoinette Nelson

A small self-supported library space is maintained by the UTA University Libraries on the second floor of the Automation & Robotics Research Institute (ARRI) at the UTA Fort Worth Campus. This library started when ARRI first opened in 1987 and served as a reading room with 20+ new issues of print subscriptions delivered to the library on a weekly basis. This service was discontinued after most journals became available online.

Three public-use computers were installed when the UTA Fort Worth Riverbend campus was established in 1999. Since then the name has been shortened to the UTA Fort Worth campus. The library does not maintain a circulating collection of books and journals, but services, such as document delivery, are available to students, faculty, and staff at the UTA Fort Worth Campus. For more information about document delivery services at library go to the URL: http://www.uta.edu/library/access/illforms.html .

In the ARRI library a large black Reference Notebook located near the public computers serves as a quick reference guide to the many services available through the UTA Libraries. Print subject guides that support the engineering and business disciplines at the Fort Worth campus are available on the shelves within the library. The Science and Engineering librarians provide onsite reference help approximately twice a month.