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The Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection is an extensive map collection owned by the Perry–Castañeda Library at The University of Texas at Austin. [1] Many of the maps in the collection have been scanned and are available online, and most of these maps are public domain. [2] The collection includes maps of special interest: Afghanistan
The library includes over 970,000 books, 19,000 maps, 93,500 photographs, 4,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 11,500 broadsides, and 50,000 items in other multimedia formats. Most of the sources are about Texas and Mexico, but also include items are also from the other Latin American countries, particularly: Central America, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.
Additional information on MAYO can be located at: The archives of the San Antonio Light and the Express News. The newspapers at Trinity University and at UTSA . The Institute of Texan Cultures and the Library at the University of Texas at Austin contain papers donated by José Angel Guitiérrez. The Handbook of Texas Online.
The Austin History Center is the local history collection of the Austin Public Library and the city's historical archive. The building opened as the official Austin Public Library in 1933 and served as the main library until 1979, [ 2 ] when library functions moved to the John Henry Faulk Library, a newer facility next door.
Boston, Massachusetts in 1842, from the Perry–Castañeda Library Map Collection, at the University of Texas at Austin. Garnier, F. A., Turquie, Syrie, Liban, Caucase. 1862., from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. A map collection or map library is a storage facility for maps, usually in a library, archive, or museum, or at a map ...
Downtown Austin, Texas on Sunday, May 29, 2022. ... would allow area residents living in eligible areas to have access to Austin's free public library card, rather than pay a fee of up $120 ...
The building is named in honor of Lorenzo de Zavala, a statesman in Texas history. Built in 1959 and inaugurated in 1961, [3] the building houses the headquarters of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, and is located east of and adjacent to the Texas State Capitol, and made of the same pink granite as the capitol building. [4]
In August 2015, the University of Texas at Austin opened the doors of a new Learning Commons on the main floor of the library. [8] In spring 2023, the UT Libraries worked with students in the UT Austin Master of Science in Information Technology and Management to develop interactive 3D models for library spaces.