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Three Questions with Haiden Scheffrin

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:11:05 +0000

Haiden Scheffrin is a digital archivist and cultural heritage practitioner specializing in digital preservation and community access.

Why AI Dread Hits Harder… and What to Do About It

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:08:27 +0000

As part of Campus HR’s Supervisor’s Green Room series, Shaureece Park (Director, Administrative Services and AI Steering Committee Member) of the UNT Libraries will facilitate a session on Why AI Dread Hits Harder… and What to Do About It for UNT employees.

UNT Libraries Conduct AI Research

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:08:27 +0000

The UNT Libraries are committed to conducting research on AI topics impacting higher education. Since 2024, staff throughout the libraries have participated in three research cohorts led by Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit research company that collaborates with educational organizations to improve policies and practices in education.

Communicating Your Technical Experience

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:08:27 +0000

Translating Experience into Leadership and Career Success

Special Collections Contributed Film to New Exhibit

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:16:58 +0000

“Help Wanted / Leave Now: “Operation Wetback” & The Revolving Door of Mass Deportation” is a new exhibit at the California Museum that explores how generations of Mexican farmworkers, miners, and others were recruited to sustain U.S. industry, only to face mass expulsion during times of economic anxiety and political scapegoating.

UNT Special Collections contributed a significant amount of archival film from the WBAP/KXAS Television News Archive for display in this exhibit. This footage shows first- hand how the largest mass deportation in American history was carried out in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. Footage shows families first entering a detention camp in McAllen where they would stay until being transported to Mexico. Similar deportation operations simultaneously took place in Arizona and California.

Archival footage of deportations, along with archival photos and artifacts, helps tell the difficult story of deportation while honoring the individuals whose labor has underpinned American economic growth.

The exhibit will open on August 12 with a reception and remarks by Dolores Huerta. The California Museum will host the exhibit for public display from August 13-Janusry 10, 2027, and then the exhibit will travel to other locations throughout the US.

OER Grant Applications Now Open

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:05:19 +0000

The UNT Libraries Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative team is excited to announce that OER and Open Texts grant applications are now open!

Three Questions with Jacob Lord

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:11:05 +0000

Jacob Lord is a composer and artist from Dallas, Texas. Their body of work spans across concert music, intermedia works, and performance art.

A Byte of AI: Copilot Workshop

Sun, 31 May 2026 12:48:33 +0000

You are welcome to A Byte of AI: Copilot Workshop.

The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Theo Johnson

Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Theo Johnson (b. 2003, Houston, TX) is a photographer and writer whose work examines Black memory, displacement, and community resilience in Texas through documentary practice and archival research. His work centers suppressed histories, with a particular interest in how narratives of place are constructed, obscured, and reimagined over time. Through photography, he explores the relationship between landscape, memory, and collective identity, positioning the archive as both a site of preservation and intervention. Johnson received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Texas in 2026.

The Portal to Texas History 2026 Research Fellowship Awardee - Kara Culp

Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Kara Alexandra Culp is a PhD student in history at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies how local, state, and federal education policies affect Latinos in Texas. She is dedicated to community-centric history, a methodology that includes oral histories, using individuals’ personal papers, and creating public history projects which make her research more accessible to the communities which she is writing about. Kara attended Texas A&M university for her undergraduate degree, where she majored in history and minored in Spanish and secondary education. Before beginning her graduate studies, she spent several years working as a public high school teacher and volunteering. She was born and raised in Texas.