📚✨ A new semester, a new beginning. We’re pleased to welcome Robert H. McDonald as Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries. In this short message, he shares his anticipation and vision for the future of UT Libraries.

🍩 Learn smarter ways to manage your research data at Data & Donuts! Hands-on examples, best practices, and free donuts. 🗓 Sept 5, 12–1:15pm | PCL + Zoom 👉

Welcome back, Longhorns! .The Libraries' Welcome Week is here! Join us for:.🎲 Game Night (8/25).🎨 Islamic Art in the Foundry(8/26).📒 Zine Party (8/27).🌱 Bibliogarden (8/28).🎬 Minari Film Screening (8/29).Come kick off the year with us, and start building your community!

Join us for Introduction to OER for UT Faculty to learn how open educational resources can support your teaching. Discover what OER are, why they matter, and how to start integrating them into your courses. Tomorrow, 10a. 👉 Register here:

🚀 Ready to bring digital tools into your classroom? Join the Digital Scholarship Pedagogy Institute 2025 and explore AI, digitization, visualization & storytelling for teaching. 📅 Aug. 19–20 | Scholars Lab, PCL.

RT @mcdonald: I am very excited to announce that I have been named the Senior Vice Provost & Director of the UT Libraries. Looking forward….

RT @CUBoulder: Congratulations, Dean McDonald! Thank you for your leadership, vision, and service to CU Boulder. Wishing you continued succ….

RT @LibraryJournal: Robert H. McDonald Appointed Senior Vice Provost and Director of the University of Texas Libraries .

Robert H. McDonald (@CUBoulder) has been named Senior Vice Provost & Director of the UT Libraries, effective August 16, 2025. A leader in digital strategy & academic innovation, brings deep experience to his new role. Welcome to the Forty Acres!.

"Education must be treated as a right, not a privilege." – Antara Gupta, UT alum & med student (. High textbook costs shouldn't stand between students and their dreams. Support Open Educational Resources (OER).

Imagine learning Italian without the burden of textbook costs. Thanks to our Open Education Fellows, students have free access to an Italian language textbook (available at . Support the creation of resources like this:.

💡 Education should be affordable. This #40for40, support the UT Libraries’ OER Endowment and help provide free, high-quality course materials to every Longhorn. 🎓 Your gift = greater access to knowledge. Help make education attainable:

This 40 Hours for the Forty Acres, help power free & open learning at UT. We're raising funds for a student-led endowment that supports Open Educational Resources – high-quality course materials that cut costs & expand access to education for everyone.

Celebrate National Poetry Month 📚✨.Join us for a reading by Tawanda Mulalu, Ms. Trinitee, Kyle Okeke, and Zell Miller III, followed by a workshop on blackout poetry. Refreshments will be provided! 1p, WED, 4/23. PCL. #NationalPoetryMonth

European Studies Librarian Ian Goodale conjures thoughts on the University of Edinburgh's "Survey of Scottish Witchcraft" in the latest installment of Read, Hot and Digitized. Check it out:

FRIDAY: Day of Digital Humanities, featuring a keynote by Paola Ricaurte (Tecnológico de Monterrey) – "Pluriversality as Regenerative Politics," explores how different knowledge systems and technologies can shape the future of research and scholarship.

Today @3p. "Social Media and the Global South." What happens when a social media platform is built for and by its community? Join in an examination of a case study of a homegrown Indian platform. Details & registration:

Celebrate the power of literature at An Evening with Cristina Rivera Garza—Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and one of the most influential voices in contemporary Mexican literature. Benson Latin American Collection, tonight at 6 p.m.

The archive of Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza is now part of the Benson Latin American Collection at UT! The papers – including manuscripts, letters, photos and more – offer an intimate look into one of Mexico’s most innovative literary voices.

Curious about preserving your digital past? 📨 Explore tools and strategies for email archiving and managing personal digital archives in this workshop. Perfect for researchers, writers, and anyone with a full inbox! FRI, 3/28, noon. Virtual.