Spring 2000
Vol. 6 no. 1

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Copyright in the Digital Age.

Georgia K. Harper, the UT System attorney for intellectual property, recently presented a lecture on copyright law.

Friends Year in Review

As has become routine for the Friends, the programs attracted large crowds and interesting speakers and performers.

Internet Cafe

If Libraries are truly the intellectual heart of their universities, then the pulse will quicken at UTA this fall when the Internet Cafe opens.

New Offerings in 2000

As reference materials evolve from paper-based to Web-based access, many new and reformatted materials are being introduced to UTA Libraries users.

Snapshots

Donors

Did you make the list?

Exhibits

Map to Libraries

From the Director

By Tom Wilding

As we end the Spring 2000 semester and enter the summer months, we begin to close down one budget year and look forward to the next. The financial difficulties that plagued the University and the Libraries in the early 1990s seem remote today. In the past few years the Libraries have been able gradually to rebuild and stabilize the book and journal budgets, to add numerous electronic databases, to build a strong digital collection of full text journals and books, and to increase significantly the numbers of computer workstations available to users in the Libraries. We have even been able to add a few critical staff positions.

Looking ahead to the new year (which at the University begins on September 1), we anticipate another strong year for library resources and services. We anticipate not only holding the line on journal subscriptions but being able to add new titles for the first time in seven or eight years without having to cancel other titles. We expect to add about 20% to the budget for books. We expect to continue the growth of electronic resources and to take important steps in building a digital library.

Over the last several months, we have been developing a new strategic plan, one that we hope will ground us firmly in the emerging electronic environment, able to support a full set of resources and services to users wherever they are and whenever they need to use them. The financial picture for next year is encouraging to us as it appears that we will be able to take important first steps toward making these plans become a reality. There are exciting times ahead!

Reach Maggie Dwyer, editor,
UTA Library Publications and Development,
by phone at 817-272-5366 or email at dwyer@uta.edu .

The UTA Library Notes (ISSN 1083-7620) is published by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Box 19497, Arlington, Texas, 76019-0497. Library Notes is edited by Maggie Dwyer with editorial assistance from Gerald Saxon. Contributors are Sarah Jones, Kay Punneo, Gerald Saxon, and Tom Wilding. Photos by Maggie Dwyer. Look for the UTA Libraries on the web at: http://www.uta.edu/library/ . The University of Texas at Arlington is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The UTA Library Notes is produced on acid-free, recycled paper.

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