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Great news! Because of donors like you, we reached our goal to raise $5,000 in the first 20 hours of the 30-day campaign!
Due to the resounding success created by the generosity of our donors, these gifts will purchase a digital camera set-up for archival use—the first of two machines necessary to expand the number and variety of digital collection images available online for teaching and research. Thank you!
All gifts to the campaign between now and December 31, will help us get one step closer to our goal of raising an additional $200,000 to purchase a Phase One DT Versa, a high-resolution and high-output digitization system in use by a number of leading repositories including the Library of Congress and The Smithsonian as well as other major archives held by research universities.
Without records, there is no history—only myth and legend. On behalf of all of the students, faculty and other researchers who use the center’s collections, THANK YOU for helping us make the evidence of history widely available.
The Briscoe Center's reading room has assisted researchers from 18 countries.
Students and faculty from 55 different universities and colleges around the world use the Briscoe Center's collections in their research projects.
The center's namesake, Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, would have celebrated his 97th birthday this year.
The center's archivists taught information literacy and research skills to 241 students in 13 visiting classes during the 19-20 academic year.
The center’s archivists have fielded more than 500 remote reference requests for digital images of collection material since March, 2020.
Each year, the Briscoe Center’s archivists help more than 700 UT students conduct research in the collections for class projects, theses, and dissertations.
In 1897, the first gift of historical archives arrived at UT, launching efforts to collect and preserve historical evidence for teaching and research. These archives became the foundational collections of today’s Briscoe Center for American History.
