_____________________________________________ 6. LIBRARIES AND OTHER ACADEMIC RESOURCES ________________________________________________________ THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES The libraries of the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest academic libraries in the United States, include the General Libraries, the Center for American History, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, and the Tarlton Law Library. The UT library online catalog (UTCAT), available on public terminals in the library and via dial-up access from terminals and personal computers on and off campus, includes most items in the General Libraries and has partial listings for the Humanities Research Center and the Law Library. The General Libraries The General Libraries include the Perry-Castaneda Library, the Undergraduate Library, nine branch libraries, the Collections Deposit Library, and two special collections. Special collections are the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Public Affairs Library. Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL). This open stack library contains more than two million volumes and is the main library of the University of Texas at Austin. It serves most subject fields, but emphasizes the humanities, the social sciences, business, and education. Subject strengths are American and British history, the South, twentieth-century American literature, nineteenth-century English literature, classical philosophy and literature, and modern German literature. The Perry-Castaneda Library collections contain more than 180,000 volumes of Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, and Urdu materials relating chiefly to the social sciences and language and literature of South and East Asia. Approximately 72,000 volumes, primarily in Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian, relating to the language and literature, history, religion, and social sciences of the Middle East are also located there. Special materials housed in the Perry-Castaneda Library include a collection of United States federal and United Nations official documents in the Reference and Information Services Department, current journals and newspapers and a large collection of microforms in the Periodicals and Microforms Unit, over 252,000 maps in the Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin theses and dissertations, and the Textbook and Curriculum Collection. Other service units are the Circulation Desk, Inter-Library Service (ILS), the Reserves Unit, an electronic information center, and the Photoduplication Service. The General Libraries administrative offices, Facilities and Support Services, Technical Services, Library Systems, and Collection Development and Management Services are also housed in the library. Library staff at the information desk in the lobby provide general assistance and referrals. Librarians in the Reference and Information Services Department assist in the use of the library and offer reference services. Staff and services areas are located on the first two levels of the building with the book collection in open stacks on the upper levels. Seating for approximately 3,200 readers is provided. Photocopiers are available in several areas. Undergraduate Library (UGL). This basic resource library, located in the Flawn Academic Center, is designed to serve undergraduate students, especially those at the lower-division level. Introductory information in all fields is available in an open shelf collection of approximately 148,000 volumes. Reference staff assist users in learning library skills and in finding information. Materials placed on reserve by faculty for the students in their classes are available at the service desk on the first floor. The Audio Visual Library is located on the third floor, where reserve materials in audiovisual formats are available along with videos and films for classroom use. More than two hundred listening/viewing stations are located in the Audio Visual Library, including twenty television monitors for individual use and facilities for previewing films. Rooms are also provided for group listening and viewing. An electronic information center for use by any member of the University community is also available. Branch libraries. The book collections in the branch libraries generally emphasize the subjects of concern to the colleges, schools, and departments in which they are situated, but are available to all students and faculty members. Branch libraries include the following: Architecture and Planning, Chemistry, Classics, Engineering, Fine Arts, Geology, Life Science, Physics-Mathematics-Astronomy, and the Marine Science Library in Port Aransas. The Balcones Library Service Center is administered through the Engineering Library. Collections Deposit Library (CDL). This is a limited access facility housing certain library materials that require continuing though moderate use. Materials may be used at the library or borrowed directly from there if they are available for circulation. Special collections. The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is an international resource for research in Latin American studies. It contains 633,000 volumes of books, pamphlets, and magazines in addition to manuscripts, maps, newspapers, and microfilms on any subject related to Latin America or anything written by a Latin American, regardless of language. Latin America is defined as the countries, territories, and lands south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere, including the islands of the Caribbean. Related materials in the collection deal with the states of the United States during the period they were part of the Spanish Empire or Mexico, and with the Spanish-speaking segment of the United States population. The Mexican American Library Program, begun in late 1974, has given emphasis to collecting materials related to Mexican Americans and other Hispanics in the United States. The Edie and Lew Wasserman Public Affairs Library serves faculty, students, and agencies of government. The collection of 118,000 volumes contains files of governmental financial statements and annual reports and is a selective depository for documents of the United States and Canadian governments. LIBRARY SERVICES AND POLICIES Computer-based information services. The General Libraries offers search services including more than five hundred online databases on a cost-recovery basis to University of Texas at Austin students, faculty members, and staff. U-Search, a user-administered search service, is also available. Many databases are available online free of charge to University of Texas users. Inter-Library Service (ILS). Inter-Library Service will obtain materials not owned by the General Libraries for University of Texas at Austin students, faculty members, and staff. ILS is located in PCL 2.402. Library hours. Library hours for all units are posted in each unit. Most circulation desks close fifteen minutes before the library closes. Shortened schedules are maintained between semesters and during spring break. The libraries are closed on major holidays observed by the University. Lending rules. To assure the availability of its resources, units of the General Libraries lend materials for a specific period and charge fines for items not returned when they are due. Every borrower must present a valid University of Texas student, faculty, or staff identification card, or a special, courtesy, or proxy borrower card. Borrowers are responsible for maintaining a correct record of their social security number and mailing address with the University, and for obtaining a corrected borrower card in case of error or changed data. Material is due on the date/time indicated on the date-due slip, or as stated at the time of checkout. Borrowers are responsible for material checked out to them until it is returned to the circulation desk from which it was borrowed. Return receipts are issued on request. The General Libraries is not responsible for notifying borrowers that materials are overdue. Loan periods. All materials are available for library use, and most are available for home use. Some items are restricted to short-term loans from two hours to seven days. General collection materials circulate for fourteen days to undergraduate students, for twenty-eight days to graduate students and nonprofessional staff, and for a semester to faculty and professional staff, except materials in the Undergraduate Library which circulate to all borrowers for fourteen days. Items that have been checked out for a loan period of at least fourteen days and are not in demand may be renewed at most library circulation desks, or through the U-Renew option available on the online catalog (UTCAT) at any public terminal, or by remote access. A borrower may request that the library recall an item that has been checked out to another borrower for at least fourteen days. Recall requests may be made at any time, but recalled items are not due during intersessions, official University holidays, or spring vacation. Recalled items are due on the date specified on the notice, or immediately if required for reserve use. Failure to return a recalled item may result in suspension of borrowing privileges. When a recalled item is returned, the requester is notified and the item is held for seven days. Schedule of fines. Borrowers are subject to the following fines for failing to return library materials on or before the date due: Two-hour or overnight items: $1 an hour or fraction of an hour for each item; $24 an item, maximum. Two-hour or overnight items (on reserve): $3 an hour or fraction of an hour for each item; $36 an item, maximum. Three-day and library-use items: $4 a day or fraction of a day for each item; $24 an item, maximum. Three-day and library-use items (on reserve): $6 a day or fraction of a day for each item; $24 an item, maximum. Seven-day items: $1 a day or fraction of a day for each item; $24 an item, maximum. Fourteen-day and twenty-eight-day items: Fifty cents a day or fraction of a day for each item; $24 an item, maximum. Recalled items: $6 a day or fraction of a day beginning the day after the recall due date; $36 an item, maximum, even if the item is overdue when recalled. Fines are assessed for each day the library is open. Charges for loss and damage. Borrowers will be charged for lost and damaged items as follows: Lost items: Cost of replacement. Processing fee: Borrowers are subject to a $20 fee any time an item is reported lost or is presumed by the library to be lost. An item is presumed lost when the maximum fine has accumulated or if the item is not returned or renewed within twenty-one days after the first class day of the following semester. Fines: The amount accumulated through the time the item was reported lost or presumed lost. Rebinding or repair charge: $20. If the item is not repairable, the cost of replacement is assessed. Library card for non-University borrowers. The University's libraries are open to the public for library use of materials. Adult Texas residents who are not members of the University community may borrow materials for home use by purchasing a courtesy borrower card at the Perry-Castaneda Library Circulation Desk. A photo ID or two other identification cards are required at the time of purchase. Outstanding library charges must be paid before a courtesy card will be issued. The fee is waived for current members of the Ex-Students' Association and for faculty and professional staff of other University of Texas System institutions and Texas A&M University. Cards are valid for the period of membership or appointment, not to exceed one year. A card may be renewed on the same basis as originally issued or according to other requirements as noted. Courtesy borrowers are assessed fines and fees for late, lost, and damaged materials at the same rate as students and are billed by the Circulation Services Department. Unpaid charges may result in suspension of borrowing privileges. Other Libraries on Campus Center for American History. The Center for American History is a special collections library, archive, and museum that facilitates research and sponsors programs on the historical development of the United States. The center supports research and education by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible research collections and by sponsoring exhibitions, conferences, fellowships, and grant-funded initiatives. The Center for American History houses more than 39,500 linear feet of archives and manuscripts, 150,000 volumes, 32,000 maps, 5,500 historic newspaper titles, one million photographs, and extensive collections of broadsides, recorded music, oral history, and ephemera documenting the history of the United States. Research collection strengths are the history of the South, the Southwest, the Rocky Mountain West, congressional history, and specific national topics. The center's divisions are the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Collections, the Littlefield Southern History Collections, the Congressional History Collections, the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum (located in Bonham, Texas), the Winedale Historical Center (located near Round Top, Texas), the Western Americana Collections, the Special Collections for American History, the University of Texas Archives, and the Oral History Programs. Specific holdings include an 1849 daguerreotype of the Alamo, the earliest datable photograph taken in Texas; more than 3,500 individual collections of personal papers and official records of individuals, families, groups, and businesses significant to the history of Texas, such as the papers of Stephen F. Austin, Lorenzo de Zavala, and Sam Houston; the Natchez Trace Collection of more than 400 feet of printed and manuscript records documenting life and culture in the lower Mississippi River Valley from 1790 to 1900; the papers of more than forty-five former and present members from the Texas congressional delegation, and the Walter Cronkite Papers, the James Farmer Papers, and the photographic archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly, all collections that are national in scope. The center's James Stephen Hogg Reading Room, located in Sid Richardson Hall Unit 2, is open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Saturday. Reference staff is available to guide access to collections, and bibliographic descriptions of all center books and newspapers, as well as many archival collections, are represented in UTCAT. Holdings are stored in closed stacks and are room-use only. Many center collections are stored off-site and require forty- eight hours notice for retrieval for use at the center. In addition, the sound and film collections are available for use by appointment only. For more information, call (512) 495-4515. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is one of the world's foremost institutions for literary and cultural research. It offers resources in a number of disciplines and periods, but its principal strength is in its collections of twentieth-century British, American, and French literature. These collections contain not only rare editions but also prepublication materials, including authors' original notes, revised manuscripts, corrected galley proofs and page proofs, as well as letters and other personal and professional documents. Important collections exist also in photography, theatre arts, and film. The center houses approximately one million books, thirty million manuscripts, five million photographs, and over one hundred thousand works of art. Book collections include the libraries of James Joyce and Evelyn Waugh; the Wolff Collection of Nineteenth-Century Fiction, the VanderPoel Collection of Charles Dickens, three Shakespeare First Folios, and the Pforzheimer Collection of English Literature, 1475- 1700. The Ransom Center's most valuable book is the Gutenberg Bible, housed in a special exhibition case on the first floor. Authors particularly well represented in the center's manuscript collections include Graham Greene, Lillian Hellman, D. H. Lawrence, Carson McCullers, Anne Sexton, George Bernard Shaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Tennessee Williams. Among the photography, theatre arts, and film collections is the Gernsheim History of Photography Collection including the works of more than 1,200 photographers and the first photograph ever taken, as well as large collections of theatrical designs, film manuscripts, and other materials including the Norman Bel Geddes collection, the David O. Selznick collection, and the Gloria Swanson archive. Art collections include drawings, prints, and paintings of and by English, American, and French writers, including e e cummings, D. H. Lawrence, and Jean Cocteau, as well as works of art by Frida Kahlo, Eric Gill, Georges Rouault, and others. The Ransom Center invites use by scholars engaged in research in the humanities. University faculty members, staff, and students are eligible to use the collections, as are other researchers. The Ransom Center is a noncirculating library. Researchers wishing to consult the collections must present a photo ID, complete an application form, and agree to abide by the Ransom Center's rules and regulations. Many Ransom Center books and some archival materials are represented in UTCAT, the online catalog. Rare book users should consult both the online catalog and the card catalog in the fifth floor reading room; manuscript users will be directed to the manuscript card catalog, indexes, and finding aids in the reading room. Photography, theatre arts, and film materials are partially represented in UTCAT, but users should refer to catalogs and other finding aids to locate materials in these areas. The reading room, where patrons obtain access to most books and manuscripts and all theatre arts materials, is located on the fifth floor and is open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday and 9:00 am to 12:00 noon on Saturday. Photographs, other materials relating to photography, and film materials are available through the viewing room on the sixth floor. The viewing room is open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday. Materials from the art collections may be used by appointment by calling 471-4663. Law library. The Joseph D. Jamail Center for Legal Research (Tarlton Law Library) supports the research and curricular needs of the faculty and students of the School of Law, as well as the research needs of the University community, members of the bar, and the public. With more than 875,000 volumes, the Tarlton library is the fifth largest academic law library in the country. In addition to a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary legal materials, the library has a broad interdisciplinary collection from the social sciences and humanities as well as a number of special collections. Special collections include extensive foreign and international law resources, more than 870,000 pieces of microform materials in a media collection, the papers of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, films and fiction relating to law and the popular culture, and, in the library's Gavel Room, a special collection of recent winners of the American Bar Association's prestigious Silver Gavel Award. The library is a selective depository for U.S. and European Community government documents. In addition to printed matter, the library offers law students access to LEXIS and WESTLAW, the major online computer-assisted legal research services, on terminals located throughout the library. The library also provides CD-ROM access, access to the public catalogs, and a variety of other legal and nonlegal electronic databases and information services. The library's Center for Computer-Based Legal Research and Instruction provides a networked environment of fifty-two Macintosh and IBM-compatible personal computers, word processing and research applications, and the capability to produce laser-printed output. Students also have access to worldwide computer networks through INTERNET. As a member of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), the library participates in RLG's Law Program Committee and in the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN), RLG's national computer system for shared cataloging. Through this network, the library has immediate access to the collections of other major research libraries throughout the country. The library's own online public access catalog and bibliographic system, TALLONS, provides immediate access to much of the collection. TALLONS offers users a variety of search strategies and provides information on the location of material, material being ordered for the collection, latest receipt information for serials, and circulation status of all material. TALLONS can be used in conjunction with UTCAT, the University of Texas General Libraries online catalog of the holdings of the various libraries on campus. More than six hundred paintings, other objets d'art, prints, documents, antique quilts, rugs, and pieces of furniture from the Elton M. Hyder, Jr., and Martha Rowan Hyder Collection enhance the ambiance of the library and create a culturally enriching environment for library patrons and staff. Because legal research can be technically demanding, members of the library's public services staff provide individual and classroom instruction in the use of the library's materials. OTHER LIBRARIES IN AUSTIN The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, located on the eastern edge of the campus, is operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. Not part of the University library system, this library is a rich resource for scholars studying the twentieth century. Faculty and students also have access to other public and private libraries in the Austin area, including several that focus on special areas of interest. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MCDONALD OBSERVATORY AT MOUNT LOCKE The McDonald Observatory, constructed and maintained from the proceeds of a bequest by W. J. McDonald in 1929, was originally operated jointly by the University of Texas and the University of Chicago. Today the observatory is administered solely by the University of Texas at Austin. Located on Mount Locke in the Davis Mountains at an altitude of 6,800 feet, the observatory sits on four hundred acres of land donated by the owners of the Fowlkes and McIvor ranches. The 2.1-meter reflector was installed in March 1939, and the observatory was formally dedicated on May 5, 1939. For some years the 2.1-meter reflector was the second largest telescope in the world, and it is still among the world's major telescopes. A 0.9- meter reflector built primarily for stellar photoelectric photometry was installed in January 1957. The development of the observatory and of the 2.1-meter reflector was largely the work of Otto Struve (1897-1963), the first director of Yerkes and McDonald Observatories, and one of the outstanding scientists of his generation. In recognition of his contributions, the 2.1-meter reflector was officially designated "The Otto Struve Reflector of the W. J. McDonald Observatory," in an international dedicatory symposium in May 1966. Supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the University of Texas, and assisted by the National Science Foundation, a 2.7-meter telescope began operation in early 1969 as the third largest telescope in the world. Improved supporting facilities and a 0.8-meter telescope were also constructed at that time. Between 1967 and 1989 a precision 4.9-meter parabolic reflector was in operation at the observatory for radio astronomical studies. A current partnership with the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, provides access to the precision 10.4-meter parabolic reflector there. The partnership permits continued and higher frequency studies by researchers and graduate students at the University. McDonald Observatory produces the daily astronomy radio program, "Star Date," which airs on more than two hundred radio stations in the United States and Canada and is heard by ten million people each week. The observatory also publishes Star Date magazine for fifteen thousand subscribers. The W. L. Moody, Jr., Visitors' Information Center, located at the base of Mt. Locke, is open to visitors daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Weather permitting, solar viewing sessions are conducted daily at 11:00 am and 3:30 pm, and a guided tour is conducted at 2:00 pm. From June through August, there is an additional tour each day at 9:30 am. Every Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday beginning at evening twilight, visitors have the opportunity to view the planets, moon, galaxies, and other celestial objects through 14-inch and 24-inch telescopes. No reservations are necessary. Admission is one dollar for adults and fifty cents for children. More information about visiting McDonald Observatory may be obtained from the W. L. Moody, Jr., Visitors' Information Center, Box 1337, Fort Davis, Texas 79734, (915) 426-3640. TEXAS MEMORIAL MUSEUM The Texas Memorial Museum is located on the University campus at 2400 Trinity Street, between San Jacinto Boulevard and East Campus Drive. Dedicated to the study and interpretation of the natural and social sciences, with emphasis on the Southwest and Latin America, the museum fulfills its purpose through its internationally recognized research collections and laboratories, and its exhibition, education, and publications programs. The fields of geology, paleontology, zoology, botany, ecology, anthropology, and history are represented in the museum's programs. Constructed with state and federal funds, contributions, and proceeds from the sale of Centennial coins sponsored by the American Legion, the museum was opened to the public January 15, 1939. In 1959, by legislative enactment, it became a division of the University of Texas. The museum is open every day, except major holidays, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm weekdays, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Saturday, and from 1:00 to 5:00 pm Sunday. Admission is free. Known worldwide for its collection of fossil vertebrates, the museum exhibits examples of the world-famous dinosaur footprints originally from Glen Rose, Texas. Other fossils on display are a thirty-five-foot cretaceous mosasaur, reptiles and amphibians from the Permian period of the Paleozoic era, and remains of Ice Age mammals. Geology is explored on the first floor in a display of gems, minerals, and rocks. The third floor features the contemporary native fauna of Texas, including many of the state's fascinating reptiles, birds, and mammals. The fourth floor is dedicated to Native American cultures with displays of prehistoric to more recent artifacts and tools. The museum's superb collection of antique firearms, exhibited at the entrance level, highlights the history and diversity of the gunsmith's art. Temporary exhibits from the museum's collections and from other institutions provide variety. Operating as divisions of the Texas Memorial Museum, but located at the Pickle Research Campus, are the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, containing more than 150,000 fossil specimens and over 6,000 recent vertebrate skeletons; the Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany Collections, containing more than 3,500,000 specimens of fossil and modern invertebrates and fossil plants; and the Geological Collections (rocks, minerals, meteorites, and tektites) containing over 50,000 specimens. The Division of Vertebrates, holds approximately 350,000 specimens of fishes, over 50,000 amphibians and reptiles, over 7,000 mammals, and 2,000 birds. The Division of Invertebrates houses over 325,000 specimens of insects, arachnids, and mollusks. The Materials Conservation Laboratory provides for the stabilization, preservation, and restoration of the scientific and ethnohistoric teaching/research specimens in the museum's collections. The Radiocarbon Laboratory, administered by the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, collaborates with research projects in archaeology, geology, oceanography, paleontology, and paleobotany, where age determinations of organic materials within the time range of the past forty thousand years are required. The museum produces the following scholarly publications: the Bulletin; Pearce-Sellards Series; Speleological Monographs; Conservation Notes; Miscellaneous Papers, Museum Notes, and information circulars. The museum is the academic home of the museum studies courses offered in the College of Liberal Arts. The courses are designed to provide basic training for students preparing for careers in the museum profession, or for those who have an interest in museums growing out of scholarly interests in other fields. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS The University of Texas Press conducts a general nonfiction book and journal publication program with emphasis on studies representing scholarly areas reflected on University of Texas System campuses and Southwest regional material. The press also publishes Latin American and Middle Eastern fiction in translation. About eighty-five new books and fourteen journals are published annually, and the press distributes publications for several art museums and other cultural-educational organizations. Books have been published under the University of Texas imprint since 1922, though the press was not established as a publishing organization until 1950. The imprint is controlled by a faculty advisory committee appointed by the president. CENTER FOR TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES The Center for Telecommunication Services was established in 1939 as Radio House and was seen then as an exemplary means to extend the boundaries of the campus to the borders of the state. Today, the center operates one of the largest public radio stations in the U.S. and is a national center for the production and distribution of public service radio programming. Radio services include (1) meeting the audio production requirements for radio station KUT and the Longhorn Radio Network; (2) providing a public radio service to the University and the local communities within the station's coverage areas (KUT, 90.5 FM, is a charter member of National Public Radio and is one of 340 public radio stations in the United States certified by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as full-service stations qualified to receive annual federal assistance through the Radio Community Service Grant and National Program Production and Acquisition Grant programs); (3) distributing KUT and other programs nationally through the center's syndication service, the Longhorn Radio Network; and (4) collaborating with the Center for Mexican American Studies in the production and national distribution of Latino USA, a weekly radio magazine focusing on America's diverse Latino communities. Radio facilities at the center include (1) three production studios and four associated control rooms; (2) a broadcast control room/studio combination; (3) a master control and audio production center; (4) a master/eighteen-slave audiophile cassette audiotape duplication system; and (5) a satellite earth terminal and control system for audio reception and transmission operations. In addition to radio services, the center operates the campus video cable system, including six satellite earth terminals and control systems for reception from multiple satellite sources, so that video programming and other informational services can be made available in classrooms, lecture halls, auditoriums, and faculty and administrative offices. COMPUTATION CENTER Central academic computing facilities are available to all academic departments and research centers, and to individual students, faculty members, and staff members. The Computation Center operates two supercomputers, numerous smaller, specialized computer servers and time-sharing systems, and a two-hundred-seat Student Microcomputer Facility in the Flawn Academic Center. Faculty and students use the supercomputer for significant research projects. The time-sharing systems and information servers provide general computing capabilities and various information resources. Students use the Macintoshes and PCs in the Student Microcomputer Facility for word processing, graphics, and spreadsheet applications; for electronic mail; for access to the University's library catalog; and for access to archives of text, software, sound, and images throughout the global Internet. A separate facility, also in the Flawn Academic Center, offers hands-on access to UNIX and VMS workstations and to X-terminals connected to the center's time-sharing computer systems. Among the Computation Center's services are short courses and workshops, newsletters, user's guides, consulting assistance, licenses for popular software at reduced prices, and campuswide access to electronic mail. The center also operates a World Wide Web server and a Gopher server through which campus departments, organizations, and individuals can publish information electronically, making it accessible worldwide through the Internet. The Computation Center maintains extensive communications networks for access to the University's computers from workstations, microcomputers, and interactive terminals both on and off campus. By means of these communications networks, including the high-speed campus backbone network, UTnet, an individual can connect to a computer, communicate electronically with others, direct printing and plotting to output sites, or connect to state, national, and worldwide computer networks. The center's timesharing systems include a cluster of machines running the VMS operating system and machines running versions of the UNIX operating system. The Computation Center's High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF) serves the research and instructional supercomputing needs of the University, as well as other Texas institutions of higher education via interagency contract. Computing resources of the center currently include two Cray J90 supercomputers with twenty-one processors, a thirty-two-node Intel iPSC 860, and a variety of high performance graphics workstations. Located at the J. J. Pickle Research Campus, the HPCF is accessible to the University community of computer users via the campus UTnet backbone and to researchers from around the state via the Texas Higher Education Network (THEnet). Free catalogs for the Computation Center's workshops and short courses, as well as brochures describing its services and facilities, may be obtained from Room 5 of the Computation Center. Nearly all of the center's publications are also available online through the Internet Gopher and the Computation Center World Wide Web home page, http://www.utexas.edu/cc/. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE The Marine Science Institute has laboratories and boat facilities on the Gulf of Mexico at Port Aransas, Texas. The resident staff and faculty are concerned with basic and applied research and with undergraduate and graduate instruction in marine science in cooperation with the Department of Marine Science. Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degree programs are available through the department; most thesis or dissertation research is conducted at the institute. Founded in 1941, the institute is located in Port Aransas at the entrance of the main ship channel to Corpus Christi, with access to a wide variety of beach, bay, gulf shelf, and open gulf environments. These represent natural environments ranging from fresh to hypersaline waters, grass and mud flats, shell reefs, sand beaches, dune areas, and the surf zone. Facilities include a laboratory-classroom-office building, laboratory building with running seawater facilities, pier laboratory over the Aransas Pass, physical plant building, dormitories and apartments, library/auditorium building, and dining hall. Special research facilities include a one-hundred-five-foot research vessel (the Longhorn), a fifty-seven-foot trawler (the Katy), and outboard launches and skiffs; vehicles; walk-in growth chambers; concrete experimental ponds; isotope facilities; specialized laboratory equipment; shops; invertebrate, vertebrate, and algal reference collections; a 5.25-acre boat basin; and a branch of the University's General Libraries that contains about eight thousand books and thirty-seven thousand bound journal volumes in marine science and related fields. The Marine Science Institute also operates a mariculture research center. This twenty-two-thousand-square-foot facility was deeded to the University by the United States Government National Marine Fisheries Service in 1987. The mariculture program is focused on finfish reproduction, growth, and harvesting. Other universities and state agencies participate in the mariculture research. A visitor's center is maintained and operated by the Marine Educational Services and offers a visiting-class program for junior high, high school, and college science classes that hosts approximately 9,500 students each year. A series of teacher workshops designed to encourage the introduction of marine science topics and techniques into the curriculum for all subjects, from science to art and history, is organized to improve the proficiency of classroom teachers at all grade levels. The Visitor's Center, open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, also houses seven aquariums with typical Texas coastal habitats and numerous educational displays. The center is toured by more than thirty-five thousand visitors each year. Tours for groups of fewer than thirty are available by request in advance. Additional information may be obtained from the director, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas. THE HOGG FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is located at Lake Austin Centre, 3001 Lake Austin Boulevard, three miles west of campus. Through its programs, the foundation awards grants to community demonstration projects, supports new patterns of professional education, funds research in mental health, provides communication services in the field of mental health, and works with other organizations with interests in the area of mental health. Established in 1940 through a bequest by Will C. Hogg, the funds of the foundation have been augmented by gifts from members of the Hogg family and by gifts and grants from other individuals, foundations, and research agencies. The foundation is guided by an advisory council that meets twice a year to review policies and to help determine future direction. In its work the foundation operates as an integral part of the University of Texas, calling on faculty members and postgraduate research assistants from the medical, biological, and social sciences, as well as education, social work, and law, to serve as consultants to communities and organizations and to campus departments and community agencies that have received Hogg Foundation grants. Specific phases of the foundation's work are carried on cooperatively with components of the University and with other universities and statewide organizations interested in the promotion and study of mental health. The foundation's program is focused on projects that examine new ideas in which evaluative research is an integral part. The Hogg Foundation fosters a broad program of mental health education. A mailing list is maintained for those who request materials published by the foundation. The publications are outgrowths of foundation-funded projects or studies. Several hundred books in various areas of mental health are part of the foundation library. The Regional Foundation Collection, a comprehensive reference collection of materials related to grantsmanship, was established through the cooperation of The Foundation Center of New York City. Open to the public, it is a noncirculating reference library containing the most current and comprehensive information available on private and corporate philanthropy, grantsmanship, and nonprofit management. THE INSTITUTE OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES The largest and oldest of the University's interdisciplinary programs, the Institute of Latin American Studies was established in 1941. The institute coordinates an extensive instructional program dealing with Latin American civilization and development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and supports research on Latin American topics by faculty members and graduate students. Courses related to Latin American studies are offered in the College of Liberal Arts in the Departments of Anthropology, Economics, Government, History, Sociology, and Spanish and Portuguese. Joint degree programs with Latin American studies are offered in the College of Business Administration, the College of Communication, the Community and Regional Planning Program of the School of Architecture, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the School of Law, and in the Department of Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. There is also important Latin American work being done in the Population Research Center, the Center for Mexican American Studies, and the Benson Latin American Collection. Latin American research occupies a significant place in several other colleges, particularly in the areas of fine arts, library and information science, education, law, and architecture. Although most parts of Latin America are covered by some aspect of the institute's work, particular emphasis is accorded Mexico, Brazil, Central America, and the Andean region. Student exchange programs have been developed with the University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica; Monterrey Institute of Technology and the University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico; The Ibero-American University, Mexico City, Mexico; and Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru. The institute is also affiliated with the Latin American Faculty for the Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; University of Chile and Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; Monteverde Institute, Monteverde, Costa Rica; Catholic University 'Mother and Teacher,' Santiago, Dominican Republic; and Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador. Throughout the year the institute sponsors symposia and lectures by visiting and resident specialists, maintains a substantial publications program, and offers public service activities to foster greater knowledge of Latin America around the state and the nation. The institute houses on-going research projects, currently including the Conference of Latin American Geographers and Latin American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, but these represent only a small part of the research activity at the University on Latin American subjects. The institute also houses the Mexican Center, an office dedicated to developing and coordinating the extensive academic programs and activities focused on Mexico and carried out by University faculty, students, and visiting Mexican scholars. The Mexican Center regularly organizes binational academic conferences on a variety of themes. Through its C. B. Smith fellowship program, the center offers a limited number of travel scholarships for Mexican faculty to take advantage of the institute's library resources. Another division of the institute is the Brazilian studies office, which coordinates the work of Brazilianist faculty and students on campus and links the University to institutions of higher education in Brazil. The division also sponsors visiting lecturers, film festivals, workshops, and symposia focusing on Brazil. Located in Sid Richardson Hall, the institute is adjacent to the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, one of the most comprehensive holdings of its kind in the world. Substantial demographic data pertaining to Latin America are found in the Population Research Center, while other supplementary information resources are located in the Perry-Castaneda Library and the Tarlton Law Library. The University's holdings of modern Latin American art are outstanding, and the Photography Collection also contains photographic documentation of relevance to Latin Americanists.