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Amiri Baraka above bar chart showing his stories were most anthologized in the '60s and '70s but became more anthologized again in the '90s and early 2000s.

April 7 2020

#vizoftheweek 11: Amiri Baraka, Poetry and Anthology Data

Why build a dataset on Amiri Baraka? Dr. Howard Rambsy explains the process of studying literary history using digital tools.

backs of two coordinators, showing the hackathon shirts; "open data day hackathon - UTA Libraries March 7-8 2020"

March 26 2020

UTA Libraries Celebrates Open Data Day with Second Annual Hackathon Event

The clock strikes 10:00 AM on a Saturday morning. The air is cold despite the sun, and yet, teams of students congregate at the University of…

Hackathon student working at laptop

March 20 2019

Open Data Day: Hackathon Recap

To celebrate and encourage the use of open data, the UTA Libraries sponsored a hackathon, or a "project marathon," where individuals came together…

The Compass Rose Logo

August 16 2017

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…

data visualization sketches

August 8 2017

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…

OpenCon2017 logo

June 29 2017

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…

Open Education Week 2017

March 16 2017

UTA Libraries Join Institutions across the Globe in Celebrating Open Education

In celebration of Open Education Week, UTA Libraries will host a series of events for faculty, staff, and students intended to raise awareness of…