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Terminology for Finding Librarian Help: UX Paper Prototype Testing

The Question: Designing "seek librarian assistance" concepts into the UTA Library homepage with librarian's terms.

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Library Feedback Wall

From May 4-24 of 2017, we collected information about the library on the Glass Walls in Central Library.

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IMLS National Leadership Grant: Partnership Selection Update

We’ve been very busy with the usual beginning-of-the-semester rush, in addition to planning our grant work. I’m taking a quick moment over the…

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Service Learning In The Fablab And CSE 3311: Object-Oriented Software Engineering

In spring of 2017 Dr. Christoph Csallner reached out to the FabLab for projects that his CSE 3311: Object-Oriented Software Engineering students…

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UTA Libraries Awarded $25,000 TexTreasures Grant to Digitize World War II Photo Negatives

UTA Libraries will scan 15,000 negatives from its Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographic Collection thanks to a $25,000 TexTreasures grant awarded…

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Largest release of digital catalog records in history

Before computers and Google, if you wanted to find a book about the Alamo, or search for materials related to the Texas Revolution, you found…

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Research Data Services in Support of New Campus Needs

Do you work with data? Then we have services and resources to help you. For quantitative and qualitative analysis, our UTA Libraries' Research…

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2017 Stem South Librarians Conference

At last year’s TX STEM Librarians Conference, I introduced UT Arlington Libraries’ Maker Literacies Pilot Program and the Maker Literacies Task…

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UTA Libraries Documents World War II Life in Fort Worth, Texas

In 1940, Fort Worth was a slow-paced city whose economy depended on cotton, cattle, and oil. By 1945, it was a fast-growing economic dynamo…

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Building Community: Reflections on Conference Going

This week applications opened for OpenCon 2017, which will take place November 11-13 in Berlin, Germany. OpenCon, now in its fourth year, is an…

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Final Report For Fablab Assignment: Art 4365 Technology In Art Education

Note: I'm posting this on behalf of Dr. Amanda Alexander who participated in our Spring 2017 Maker Literacies pilot with her course Art 4365…