GERALD DOUGLAS SAXON
Address: University of Texas at Arlington
University Libraries
Box 19497
Arlington, Texas 76019
Telephone: (817) 272-5318
E-Mail: saxon@uta.edu
Fax: 817-272-2852
EDUCATION
A.C.
National archival certification by the Academy of Certified Archivists,
November, 1989; local archival certification, August, 1986, by The University
of Texas at Arlington.
Ph.D.
May, 1979, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas.
Majored in American History; minored in American Literature.
Dissertation: "The
Politics of Expansion: Texas as
an Issue in American Politics, 1819-1845."
M.A.
August, 1975, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas.
Majored in American History. Thesis:
"Texas Annexation and the Democratic Party."
B.A.
August, 1973, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas.
Majored in American History; minored in Political Science.
Graduated magna cum laude.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
2004-c.
Dean of Libraries, The University of Texas at
Arlington Libraries.
Duties include strategic planning; budgeting; working with faculty,
administration, students, and other stakeholders on future directions;
staffing;
development and fundraising; adhering to university and system
policies and state
and federal laws; facilities; collection building; scholarly
communications,
among other things. The Libraries’ 04-05 budget is more
than $11 million
2000-2004
Associate Director of Libraries, The University of Texas at Arlington
Libraries. Duties consist of
serving on the Library Executive Team, which is responsible for developing
library-wide policies, developing and monitoring the budget, shaping strategic
initiatives for the library system, assessing library services, guiding
library planning efforts, evaluating personnel and staff-related issues, and
coordinating development initiatives and external relations.
1997-2000
Associate Director for Special Collections, Branch Libraries, and
Programs, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries.
Duties consisted of directing and supervising the operations and
administration of the Special Collections Division, the Architecture and Fine
Arts Library, and the Science and Engineering Library.
Also served as coordinator of the University Libraries’ development
and publications program.
1986-1997
Assistant Director for Special Collections and Development, The
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries.
Duties consisted of directing and supervising the operations and
administration of the Special Collections Division, including the
identification, acquisition, processing, and preservation of materials;
reference and user services; outreach, fund raising, and public relations; and
serving as liaison with the Friends of the UTA Libraries, a library support
organization with 350 members. Special
Collections houses 40,000 volumes, 7,500 rare maps, 7,000 linear feet of
manuscript and archival collections, and approximately 3.2 million
photographic prints and negatives. The
division's holdings focus on Texas, Mexico, the American Southwest, the U.S.
War with Mexico, and the cartographic history of the Gulf of Mexico.
The division has a full-time staff of ten, evenly divided between
professional and classified staff, and employs eight work-study students each
semester. In addition, the
permanent and student staff are assisted by volunteers and student interns
pursuing graduate education in archival science.
1987-c.
Adjunct Professor of History, Department of History, The University of
Texas at Arlington. Duties
consist of teaching the following classes:
History 5342, Principles of Archives and Museums I; History 5343,
Principles of Archives and Museums II; History 5644, Internship in Archival
Enterprise; History 5348, Oral History Methods and Methodology; History 3363,
Texas and Spanish Borderlands; and Geography/History 4310, Geography and
History of the Southwest. As a
member of the graduate faculty, I also serve on M.A. and Ph.D. student theses
and dissertation committees as well as capstone committees.
1980-1986
Oral History Librarian, Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division,
Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas. Duties
consisted of directing the library's oral history program; serving on the
division's interviewing, budget, and acquisitions committees, as well as on
system-wide committees; planning and implementing workshops and programs;
curating exhibits; planning and coordinating publications based on the
division's collections; conducting community outreach presentations; working
closely with donors; and servicing the division's reference desk.
1979-1980
Field
Archivist, Texas County Records Inventory Project, Denton, Texas.
Duties consisted of inventorying county records in Texas courthouses,
preparing finding aids for these records, and educating county officials about
the state's historical records depository program.
1974-1986 American History instructor at the following institutions: Eastfield College (1982-1986), a campus of the Dallas County Community College District; North Texas State University (1975-1978), Denton, Texas; and Lamar University (1974-1975), Beaumont, Texas. Duties consisted of teaching both semesters of the American History survey course.
COURSES
TAUGHT
History 3363 Texas and the Spanish Borderlands
History 5342 Principles of Archives and Museums I
History 5343 Principles of Archives and Museums II
History 5348 Topics in Public History: Oral
History Methods and Methodology
History 5395 Capstone Course
History 5644 Internship in Archival Administration
DISTINCTIONS
Chair, Program Committee, Texas State Historical
Association, 2004-2006.
Recipient, Arlington Honors Its Own Award, Arlington
Historical Society, 2003.
President, Texas Oral History Association, 2003-2004.
Vice President, Texas Oral History Association,
2002-2003.
Member,
Program Committee, Texas State Historical Association, 2003-2004.
Member,
Executive Board, Dallas Jewish Historical Society, 2002-c.
Member,
Texas Oral History Association Executive Board, 1999-2002.
Chair,
Archives Committee, Texas State Historical Association, 1997-2003.
Member,
Executive Board, Society of Southwest Archivists, 1997-1998.
Senior
Archivist, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Career Status Plan,
1996-c.
Nominated
by State Senator Chris Harris to the Texas Council for the Humanities, Fall
1996.
President,
Society of Southwest Archivists, 1996-1997.
Program
Chair, Annual Meeting, Society of Southwest Archivists, May 1996.
Member,
Archives Committee, Texas State Historical Association, 1996-1997.
Center
Fellow, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU, 1996-c.
Member,
Board of Directors, the Fielder Museum, 1996-1998.
Honorary
Life Member, Descendants of Mexican War Veterans, 1996-c.
Vice
President, Society of Southwest Archivists, 1995-1996.
Appointed
by the Governor of Texas to the Texas Historical Records Advisory Board,
1994-1996.
Member,
Board of Directors, The Book Club of Texas, 1993-2001.
Member, Executive Board, Society of
Southwest Archivists, 1992-1994.
Editorial
Advisor, Mexican
War Journal, 1991-c.
Appointed
to the Advisory Board of the Tarrant County Historical Society, 1990-c.
Contributing
Editor, Legacies
magazine, 1989-c.
President,
Texas Oral History Association, 1986-1987.
Contributing
Editor, Heritage
News, 1986-1989.
Appointed
to the City of Dallas Historical Designation Task Force by the City Landmark
Committee, 1986-1987.
Vice
President, Texas Oral History Association, 1985-1986.
Oral
History Editor, Texas
Library Journal, 1985-1986.
Recipient, Dallas County Historical
Commission's Professional Award, 1984.
Appointed
to the Greater Dallas Sesquicentennial Committee, 1984-1986.
Co-editor
of the Trinity Valley Historical Review, 1977-1978, a journal published
by the North Texas State University Department of History.
Awarded
a teaching fellowship at North Texas State University, 1975-1978.
Awarded
a teaching fellowship at Lamar University, 1974-1975.
Graduated
magna cum laude, 1973.
Phi
Kappa Phi, 1973-c.
Phi
Alpha Theta, 1972-1975.
Dean's
List, 1971-1973.
PUBLICATIONS
“Manifest Destiny and the Golden Land: U. S.
Mapping of California, 1803-1849,” in The
Mapping of California, edited by Michael Mathes (San Francisco: California
Map Society, forthcoming 2004).
Mapping
and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier, with Dennis Reinhartz (Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming
2004).
“Henry Washington Benham: A U. S. Army Engineer’s
View of the Mexican War,” in Mapping
and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier, Reinhartz and Saxon (Austin: University of Texas Press, forthcoming
2004).
Co-editor, Narrative
of the Texan Santa Fé Expedition, by George Wilkins Kendall
(Dallas: SMU’s The Library of
Texas Series, forthcoming 2004).
“Close
to Home,” Mercator's
World (March/April 1999), 12-17.
Entrada: The
First Century of Mapping the Greater Southwest, with Dennis Reinhartz (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998).
Gallery
Guide: The Cartographic Collections of Virginia Garrett
(Arlington: UTA Libraries, 1997).
Editor, Marking
a Milestone: The UTA Libraries' One Millionth Volume Ceremony, April 19, 1996
(Arlington, The UTA Press, November 1996).
Editor,
The
Compass Rose (newsletter of the Special Collections Division).
1987-c.
Several
entries for The New Handbook of Texas (Austin: The Texas State Historical
Association, 1996), 6 vols., including "Adelaida Cuellar,"
"James Eric Decker," and "Special Collections Division,
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries."
Chapter
in Dallas
Reconsidered: Essays in Local History, edited by Michael V. Hazel
(Dallas: Three Forks Press,
1996).
“James
McCoy Carlisle and His Arlington Academy,” Legacies:
A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas (Spring 1996),
34-41.
Archives
and Manuscripts Processing Manual, with Jane Boley, Marcelle Hull, and
Shirley Rodnitzky (Arlington: UTA Libraries, 1995).
Transitions: A Centennial History of The University
of Texas at Arlington
(Arlington: The UTA Press, 1995).
“The
Berachah Home: A Home for the Homeless and a Friend to the Friendless,” Legacies:
A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas (Fall 1993),
28-34.
“Special
Collections at UT-Arlington, A Genealogical Treasure,” Footprints
“A.
C. Greene: The Writer as
Historian,” Concho
River Review (Fall 1992), 44-55.
“Dallas
Cartoonist John Knott Looks at World War I,” Legacies:
A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas (Spring
1992), 20-28.
The
WPA Dallas Guide and History, with Maxine Holmes (Denton:
The University of North Texas Press, 1992).
“Jenkins
Garrett: The Collector as Library
Builder,” Texas
Libraries (Fall 1991), 68-71.
“The
Cartographic History Library of The University of Texas at Arlington,” Meridian
6 (1991),
Special Collections at The University of Texas at
Arlington Libraries: A Guide
(Arlington: UTA Libraries, 1989).
Introduction
to Mexican Derrotero of 1843, by Lewis M. Buttery (Lampasas:
Old Maps of the Southwest, 1989).
“An
Uplifting Experience: The Moody-Sankey
Revival,” Heritage News
(Spring 1986), 8-9.
“Anthony
Butler: A Flawed Diplomat,” East Texas Historical Journal,
24 (1986), 3-14.
The Cartoonist's Art:
Editorial Cartoons by Ficklen, McClanahan, Taylor, and DeOre
(Dallas: Dallas Public Library,
1985).
“Reminiscences:
From Tape to Type,” with Jan Moltzan, Public
Libraries Quarterly (Fall 1985),
“Oral
History Column” (on Videotaping Oral History Interviews), Texas Library Journal
(Winter 1985), 134-135.
“Oral
History Column” (on The Texas Oral History Association), Texas Library Journal
(Fall 1985), 94-95.
“James
Monroe and Texas: The Politics of
Diplomacy,” Cross Timbers Review (Spring 1985),
“Oral
History Column” (on Starting an Oral History Project), Texas Library Journal
(Spring 1985), 28-31, and (Summer 1985), 62-63.
“Dallas
Public Library: A Reputation for
Excellence,” with Pam Lange, Wilson
Library Bulletin (June 1984), 703-707.
Reminiscences:
A Glimpse of Old East Dallas
(Dallas: Dallas
Public Library, 1983).
“Oral
History: A Guide for
Genealogists,” The
Genealogical Helper (July-August 1983), 9-11.
“The
Dallas Mayors Oral History and Records Project: A Program of
Institutional Cooperation,” with Alan Mason, American Archivist (Fall
1982), 472-474.
“The
Majestic Theatre,” videotape script (Dallas: Dallas
Public Library, 1982).
“The
Chicken Ranch: A Home on the
Range,” with John R. Summerville, Red
River Valley Historical Review (Fall 1982), 33-44.
“Oral
History and Dallas Public Library,” Texas Library Journal (Spring 1982), 26-27.
“Banking
in the Republic of Texas,” with Dan French, Texas Bankers Record
(December 1981), 11-12, 22-23.
“Early
Attempts at Banking: The Republic
of Texas,” with Dan French, Midsouth
Journal of Economics (Fall 1981), 45-47.
Edited
and compiled twenty volumes in a Texas series entitled Inventory of County Records
(Austin: Texas State Library,
1979-1980).
“Truett
Latimer,” The County and District Clerk (September 1980), 1-3.
“Joe B. Frantz: Man on the Move” The County and District Clerk (May 1980), 1-7.
LIBRARY
COMMITTEES
Information
Commons Task Force I and II, Chair, 2003.
Library
Executive Team, 2000-c.
Library
Management Team, 2000-c.
Library
Executive Council, 1986-2000.
Library
Management Council, 1994-2000.
Development
Committee, 1994-2000.
Library
Advisory Forum, 1988-c.; Chair, 1990-1991.
Major
Space Committee, 1994-1996; Co-chair, 1995-1996.
Disaster
Preparedness Committee, 1991-2000.
Employee
Recognition Committee, 1993-1995.
Liaison to the Advisory Council,
Friends of the UTA Libraries, 1987-c.
UNIVERSITY
AND SYSTEMWIDE COMMITTEES
UT
System Social Security Task Force, 2003.
Long
Range Planning Committee, 2002-c; Strategic Planning Subcommittee, 2003.
Centennial
Coordinating Committee, 1990-1996.
Executive
Board, Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography,
1992-c.
Development
Committee, Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of
Cartography, 1992-2001.
Planning
Committee, 1994-1995.
Public
History Committee, 1992-1998.
Geography
Committee, 1989-1992.
Role
and Scope Committee, 1987-1988.
GRANTS/DONATIONS OF $5,000 AND MORE
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, forthcoming
May 2004. $60,000 to purchase
final part of the A. C. Greene Papers from the Greene Estate, New York, New
York.
Summerlee Foundation, Dallas, Texas, 2004.
$20,000 to purchase the Philpott Manuscript Collection from the
Wells-Fargo Bank of Houston, Texas.
University of Texas System, Board of Regents,
Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 2003. $62,125
to purchase two Mexican War collections from Michael Vinson, Afton, Wyoming.
University of Texas System, Board of Regents,
Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 2002. $80,000
to purchase the collection of Squire Haskins Commercial Photography Studio,
Dallas, Texas.
University of Texas System, Board of Regents,
Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 2003. $42,500
to purchase 1837 map of Texas from Preston/Petra Figley, Fort Worth, Texas.
John Martin Davis, Jr., Dallas, Texas, 2002.
$5,000 to support the Garrett Endowment.
Mrs. W. K. Gordon, Jr., Fort Worth, Texas, 2002.
$5,000 to support the Garrett Endowment.
Mark David and Sherry Tucker, McKinney, Texas, 2001.
$100,000 to support the Garrett Endowment.
Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Applewhite, Mineola, Texas, 2001.
$5,000 to support the Garrett Endowment.
Amon Carter Star-Telegram Employees Fund, Fort Worth,
Texas, 2002. $20,000 to support
the Garrett Endowment.
Comerica Texas, Dallas, Texas, 2002.
$5,000 to support the Garrett Endowment.
Dodge Jones Foundation, Abilene, Texas, 2002.
$20,000 to support the Garrett Endowment.
Martha V. Leonard, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002.
$7,500 to support the Garrett Endowment.
Friends of the UTA Libraries (individual members),
Arlington, Texas, 2002. $17,000
to support the Garrett Endowment.
TexTreasures
Grant Program, Austin, Texas, 2002. $20,000
to support Tejano Voices Project (http://libraries.uta.edu/tejanovoices/).
King
Foundation, Dallas, Texas, April 2001. $75,000
to support the Garrett Endowment.
Summerlee Foundation, Dallas, Texas, May 1999.
$15,000 to underwrite conservation of cartographic items.
Summerlee Foundation, Dallas, Texas, 1999.
Donation of Alexander von Humboldt atlases valued at $25,000.
Houston
Endowment, Inc., Houston, Texas, April 1999.
$200,000 to underwrite the Cartographic Connections Project (http://libraries.uta.edu/ccon/).
Co-principal investigator
with Richard Francaviglia.
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 1998.
$95,000 to purchase the collection of W. D. Smith Commercial
Photography, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas.
TexShare
Grant, Austin, Texas, 1998. $10,000
to support the cataloging of the Virginia Garrett Map Collection.
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 1997.
$21,735 to purchase a part of the A. C. Greene Papers.
Mrs.
Virginia Garrett, Fort Worth, Texas, 1997.
Donation of map collection valued at $750,000.
A.
H. Bel Foundation, Dallas, Texas, 1996.
$15,000 to assist in the processing of the A. C. Greene Papers.
Mr.
and Mrs. Keith Kahle, Fort Worth, Texas, 1995-1996. $9,000 to assist in the processing of the Keith Kahle Papers.
Dr.
and Mrs. Marvin Applewhite, London, England, 1995. $10,000 to purchase the Henry Washington Benham Papers.
Summerlee
Foundation, Dallas, Texas, 1995. $29,000
to purchase the Henry Washington
Benham Papers.
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 1995.
$29,000 to purchase the Henry Washington Benham Papers.
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 1994.
$25,567.50 to purchase a part of the A. C. Greene Papers.
Sid
Richardson Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1992. $57,529 to assist in the publication of a Selective Guide to
the Maps of Texas and the Southwest in the Cartographic History Library of The
University of Texas at Arlington (hereafter cited as Selective Guide).
Texas
Council for the Humanities, Summerlee Foundation, Friends of the UTA
Libraries, Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins Garrett, and The University of Texas at
Arlington, 1992. $30,500 to
support a symposium and exhibition entitled "Entrada:
The First Century of Mapping the Greater Southwest."
Texas
Council for the Humanities, Summerlee Foundation, Friends of the UTA
Libraries, and The University of Texas at Arlington, 1992. $21,792 to support a symposium and exhibition entitled
"The Changing Nature of the U.S.-Mexico Relationship."
Chancellor's
Council Grant, University of Texas System, Austin, Texas, 1992.
$10,000 to assist in the cataloging of school atlases and geographies.
Mr.
and Mrs. Jenkins Garrett, Fort Worth, Texas, 1988-1992.
$45,000 to assist in the publication of The
Mexican-American War of 1846-1848: A
Bibliography of the Holdings of the Libraries, The University of Texas at
Arlington.
Armstrong
Foundation, Natchez, Mississippi, 1987-1992.
$43,000 to assist in the processing of the George W. Armstrong Papers.
Summerlee
Foundation, Dallas, Texas, 1991. $7,000
to assist in the publication of the Selective Guide.
Abell-Hanger
Foundation, Midland, Texas, 1991. $10,000
to assist in the publication of the Selective Guide.
Sid
Richardson Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1991. $30,080 to support the purchase of the collections listed in
the entry that follows.
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 1990-1991.
$216,639 to purchase the Manuel Gonzales Papers, Simon Peon Family
Papers, Jose Salazar Ilarregui Papers, Murray Hudson School Atlas and
Geography Collection, and Murray Hudson Commercial Atlas Collection.
Sid
Richardson Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1991. $130,000 to support the purchase of the Alper Collection
(from Mexico), the Jorge Denegre Vaught Mexican War Collection, and the Michel
Antochiw Collection of Mexican pamphlets, books, newspapers, and government
documents.
Fort
Worth Star-Telegram Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1990.
$37,500 to purchase the George Wilkins Kendall Papers.
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 1990.
$37,500 to purchase the George W. Wilkins Papers.
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 1988.
$132,000 to purchase the Alper Collection (from Mexico), the Jorge
Denegre Vaught Mexican War Collection, and the Michel Antochiw Collection of
Mexican pamphlets, books, newspapers, and government documents.
Bequest,
Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris Estate, Dallas, Texas, 1987. $11,500 to support purchases in Special Collections.
University
of Texas System, Board of Regents, Matching Grant, Austin, Texas, 1986.
$26,500 to purchase the Jesus de la Garza Papers.
AWARDS RECEIVED BY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
ICI
Conservation Division's "Prize for a Plan," 1995 National
Competition, first place prize awarded to the Special Collections Division for
a plan to preserve the Henry Washington Benham Papers.
John
Sessions Memorial Award, given to the Texas Labor Archives of the Special
Collections Division, 1993. The
award is given annually by the Reference and Adult Services Division of the
American Library Association.
John
Cotton Dana Public Relations Award, given to the Friends of the UTA Libraries
for the organization's first membership and publicity drive, 1988.
The award is sponsored by The H. W. Wilson Company and the Library
Administration and Management Association.
SPEECHES, LECTURES, AND PRESENTATIONS
“Heirlooms
on Tape 1: Gathering Family Oral
History” and “Heirlooms on Tape 2: Preserving
and Sharing Family Oral History.” Federation of Genealogical Societies, Austin, Texas,
September 10, 2004 (scheduled).
“George
Wilkins Kendall and the Mapping of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition,” Joint
Meeting of the West Texas Historical Association and Texas Map Society,
Abilene, Texas, April 2, 2004.
“Jenkins
and Virginia Garrett: Texas
Collectors as Library Builders,” Texas Library Association, San Antonio,
Texas, March 19, 2004.
“Jenkins
and Virginia Garrett: Texas
Collectors as Library Builders,” Texas State Historical Association, Austin,
Texas, March 6, 2004.
“Texas
Freedmen Colonies,” Joint Session of the Texas State Historical Association
and the Texas Oral History Association, Austin, Texas, March 5, 2004.
“Northern
Exploration and Discovery,” Society for the History of Discoveries, New
Orleans, Louisiana, October 24, 2003.
“Fundraising
101 for Archivists,” Society of Southwest Archivists/Conference of
Inter-Mountain Archivists, Flagstaff, Arizona, May 16, 2002.
“The
Five Documents in Special Collections That Have Changed Our World,” Fort
Worth Woman’s Club, Fort Worth, Texas, April 12, 2002.
“Eyewitness
to Disaster: George Wilkins
Kendall and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition,” Texas State Historical
Association, Houston, Texas, March 3, 2002.
“Written
Record, Spoken Word: Using
Archival and Oral History Resources,” Unlocking the Past Conference,
Arlington, Texas, April 28, 2001.
“Why
Oral History?”, Arlington Genealogical Society, Arlington, Texas, April 13,
1999.
“Building
Strong Fund Raising Partnerships with Deans and Directors,” University of
Texas System Development/External Relations Seminar, Austin, Texas, November
16, 1998.
“The
Ten Maps That Changed Texas History,” Lecture Series, Rosenberg Library,
Galveston, Texas, October 17, 1998.
“Henry
Washington Benham: A U. S. Army
Engineer During the Mexican War,” The Virginia Garrett Lectures, Arlington,
Texas, October 2, 1998.
“Map
Collections in the Lone Star State: A
Personal Journey,” Texas Map Society, Arlington, Texas, November 8, 1997.
“Looking
Back: One Hundred Years of UTA
History,” Fielder Museum, Arlington, Texas, June 30, 1996.
“Report
on the Draft of the Strategic Plan for Texas Archives Prepared by the Texas
Historical Records Advisory Board,” Society of Southwest Archivists,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 17, 1996.
“Practical
Work from Practicums: Using Interns from the Library, Archives and
Preservation World,” Texas Association of Museums, Dallas, Texas, April 13,
1996.
“The
Family History Program,” Radio Program Syndicated by KRLD of Dallas,
March 31, 1996.
“Dallas
by the Book,” Colophon (Friends of the SMU Library) Meeting, March 20, 1996.
“Thanks
for the Memories: The One Hundred
Year History of UTA,” UTA Alumni Association Annual Homecoming, Arlington,
Texas, February 17, 1996.
“Transitions:
A Centennial History of The University of Texas at Arlington,
1895-1995,” Friends of the UTA Libraries, Arlington, Texas, February 16,
1996.
“Engineering
at UTA: A History,” American
Society of Civil Engineers, Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter, Arlington, Texas,
November 20, 1995.
“Challenge
of Statehood: A Sesquicentennial
Symposium on Texas Annexation,” Arlington, Texas, October 20, 1995.
“Remember
When? Looking Back at One Hundred
Years of UTA's History,” Fall 1995 UTA Lecture Series, Arlington, Texas,
October 19, 1995.
“The
History of UTA,” UTA Libraries' Brown Bag Series, August 3, 1995.
“Nineteenth
Century Texas Sources at UTA,” Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Fort
Worth, Texas, November 21, 1994.
“How
the West Was Taught: School
Geographies and Their Treatment of the Westward Movement,” Fall 1994 UTA
Lecture Series, Arlington, Texas, October 20, 1994.
“Genealogical
Resources in the Special Collections Division,” Mid-Cities Genealogical
Society, Hurst, Texas, July 7, 1994.
“Don't
Get Swamped in the Archives,” Texas Library Association, District 7 Meeting,
Denton, Texas, October 30, 1993.
“How
the West Was Taught: School
Geographies and Their Treatment of Nineteenth Century U.S. Expansionism,” XV
International Conference on the History of Cartography, Chicago, Illinois,
June 21-25, 1993.
“A
Home for the Homeless and a Friend to the Friendless: The Berachah Home,"
Discovering Arlington's Heritage Conference, Arlington, Texas, March 27, 1993.
“Following
the Paper Trail: Letters as Windows to the Past,” Amon Carter Museum, Fort
Worth, Texas, October 24, 1992.
“Cataloging
a Unique Cartographic History Collection,” University of Texas System
Chancellor's Council Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, May 5, 1992.
“The
Ahs of Archives,” Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Houston,
Texas, April 9, 1992.
“Jenkins
Garrett: The Collector as Library
Builder,” 10th Annual Library History Colloquium, The University of Texas at
Austin, Austin, Texas, April 26, 1991.
“A
Visual History: Fort Worth and
Tarrant County in Maps,” Tarrant County Historical Society, Arlington,
Texas, February 20, 1991.
“A.
C. Greene: The Historian as
Writer," Western Literature Association, Denton, Texas, October 4, 1990.
“More
Than Mere Illustration: Maps as
Research Tools for Historians,” Texas State Historical Association, Austin,
Texas, March 3, 1990.
“Tumultuous
Texas: A History from 1836-1900,”
Texas Society of Professional Surveyors, Jefferson, Texas, August 11, 1990.
“Why
Preservation,” Fort Worth Woman's Club, Fort Worth, Texas, January 8, 1990.
“Targeting
Texas: Building a Special
Collections in the Lone Star State,” 30th Annual Rare Books and Manuscripts
Section Preconference, sponsored by the Association of College and Research
Libraries, American Library Association, Dallas, Texas, May 5, 1989.
“The
Use of Archives in the Classroom,” American Historical Association sponsored
conference titled "The Teaching of History," Denton, Texas, October
29, 1988.
“Special
Collections: What They Are and
Why We Need Them,” Conference on State and Local History, Arlington, Texas,
October 5, 1988.
“Collecting
Local History,” Leadership Arlington, Arlington, Texas, November 18, 1987.
“UTA's Special Collections Division," Van Zandt Relocation
Specialists, Arlington, Texas, September 9, 1987.
“Recent
Acquisitions,” AAUW, Arlington, Texas, May 5, 1987.
“Singing
the Praises: Oral History and
Country Music in Texas,” Texas State Historical Association Convention,
Austin, Texas, March 7, 1986.
“Looking
Backward,” St. Michael's School, Dallas, Texas, January 23, 1986.
“Yesterday's
Dallas,” Addison Rotary Club, Addison, Texas, November 22, 1985.
“Oral
History for Beginners,” Michael Stoner Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, Dallas, Texas, November 1, 1985.
“Libraries
and Oral History,” Texas Library Association Region V Annual Convention,
Cedar Hill, Texas, November 9, 1985.
“The
History of East Dallas,” Bryan Place Homeowners' Association, Dallas, Texas,
June 11, 1985.
“The
Oral History Interview: Some
Practical Advice,” Texas Historical Commission Convention, Fort Worth,
Texas, May 4, 1985.
“The
Memory of History: Analyzing Oral
History Material,” The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas,
April 8, 1985.
“An
Introduction to Oral History,” Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Dallas,
Texas, October 12, 1984.
“The
Oral Historian in Difficulty,” National Colloquium, Oral History Association
Convention, Lexington, Kentucky, September 21, 1984.
“East
Dallas Oral History Project,” Munger Place Neighborhood Association, Dallas,
Texas, September 16, 1984.
“Oral
History on the Local Level,” North Texas State University, Denton, Texas,
March 13, 1984.
“The Oral History Interview:
Some Practical Considerations,” The University of Texas at Dallas,
Richardson, Texas, February 14, 1984.
“The
East Dallas of Yesterday,” Dallas, Texas, February 5, 1984.
“Oral
History for Genealogists,” Mesquite Genealogical and Historical Society,
Mesquite, Texas, November 10, 1983.
“Oral
History in Dallas,” Pleasant Grove Historical Society, Dallas, Texas,
October 25, 1983.
“Oral
History: Its Application for
Jewish Historians,” Texas Jewish Historical Society, Dallas, Texas, July 14,
1983.
“Researching
Oral History Interviews,” Dallas County Historical Commission, Dallas,
Texas, May 13, 1983.
“Processing
Oral History Interviews,” Eastfield Community College, Social Science
Faculty, Mesquite, Texas, May 3, 1983.
“Oral
History: Some Practical Advice,”
Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas, June 18, 1982.
“The
Genealogist as Oral Historian,” Dallas Genealogical Society, Dallas, Texas,
February 25, 1982.
“Oral
History in Oak Cliff,” Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce, Dallas, Texas,
February 21, 1982.
“Oral
History: From Tape to Type,”
Sons of the Republic of Texas, Dallas, Texas, January 14, 1982.
“Oral
History in the Classroom,” Dallas Independent School District, History
Faculty, August 16, 1981.
“The
Chicken Ranch: A Home on the
Range,” Southwestern Social Science Association Convention, Houston, Texas,
April 3, 1980.
COORDINATOR, ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS
Texas
Jewish Historical Society, Dallas, Texas, June 15, 2003.
Tarrant
County Historical Organizations, Arlington, Texas, January 24, 1992.
Collin
County Historical Organizations, Plano, Texas, October 3, 1990.
Workshop
Chair, Oral History Association Annual Conference, Galveston, Texas, October,
1989.
Church
and Synagogue Library Association, Dallas, Texas, April 19, 1986.
Southern
Memorial Association, Dallas, Texas, March 19, 1986.
Arlington
Historical Society, Arlington, Texas, September 14, 1985.
Czech Historical Society of Texas,
Dallas, Texas, June 9, 1985.
Presbyterian
Village North, Dallas, Texas, June 9, 1985.
Texas
Sesquicentennial Oral History Workshop, Marshall, Texas, December 8, 1984.
Talented
and Gifted Program, Dallas Independent School District, Pinkston High School,
Dallas, Texas, November 7, 1984.
Highland
Park Methodist Church, Highland Park, Texas, October 28 and November 7, 1984.
Talented
and Gifted Program, Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District, R.L.
Turner High School, Carrollton, Texas, October 12, 1984.
Hunt
County Historical Commission, Greenville, Texas, October 11, 1984.
Texas
Sesquicentennial Oral History Workshop, Waco, Texas, September 20, 1984.
Senior
Citizens of Greater Dallas, Dallas, Texas, May 9, 1984.
Heatherlink
School, Dallas, Texas, April, 24, 1984.
Texas
Oral History Association Convention, Austin, Texas, March 2, 1984.
Dallas
County Historical Commission, Dallas, Texas, January 26, 1984.
Dallas
County Historical Commission, Dallas, Texas, April 24, 1984.
Visiting
Nurse Association, Dallas, Texas, January 26, 1984.
Northeast
Historical Society, Hurst, Texas, November 12, 1983.
American
Jewish Committee, Dallas, Texas, November 9, 1983.
Texas
Sesquicentennial Oral History Workshop, Dallas, Texas, June 4, 1983.
Docents
of the DeGolyer Estate, Dallas, Texas, February 22, 1983.
Gifted
Leaders Are Developed Program, Dallas, Texas, January 11 and 18, 1983.
Region
10 Educational Services Program, Richardson, Texas, December 11, 1982.
Dallas
Geriatric Research Institute, Dallas, Texas, November 4, 1982.
Park
Cities Historical Commission, Highland Park, Texas, October 14, 1982.
CONSULTANCIES
Prairie
View A&M University, 2003-2004. To
consult with university staff and faculty about writing a university history.
Dr.
Pepper and Amigos Library Services, 1999. To develop a preservation plan and a
processing and cataloging proposal for the Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc.,
archives.
Bosque County Historical Commission, 1996.
To consult on the design of an archives in the county.
Friends
of the Dallas Public Library, 1995. To
conduct oral history interviews with Lillian Bradshaw, former director.
Dallas
Independent School District, 1994. To
provide in-service training for secondary teachers in the techniques and
philosophy of oral history.
Moody
Mansion and Museum, Galveston, Texas, 1994.
To participate in a charette that studied the museum's strategic plan
and mission, and established long-range goals for the museum.
Dallas
Museum of Art, 1994. To conduct
oral history interviews with museum donors.
Dallas
County Historical Foundation (The Sixth Floor Museum), 1992-1994.
To assist in the planning for and design of an archives.
Texas
Society of CPA's, 1992. To survey
the organization's historical records and assist in the planning for a museum
and archives.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American
Library Association
Arlington
Historical Society
Library
Administration and Management Association
Phi
Kappa Phi
Society
of American Archivists
Society
of Southwest Archivists
Tarrant
County Historical Society
Texas
Map Society
Texas
Oral History Association
Texas
State Historical Association
REFERENCES
Dr.
Richard Francaviglia
Director
Center
for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography
University
of Texas at Arlington
Box
19497
Arlington,
Texas 76019-0497
(817)
272-3998 (phone)
(817)
272-5797 (fax)
francaviglia@uta.edu
Mr.
Jenkins Garrett
Harris,
Finley and Bogle
777
Main Street
Suite
3600
Fort
Worth, TX 76102
(817)
870-8700 (phone)
(817)
332-6121 (fax)
Dr.
Charles B. Lowry
Dean
of Libraries
University
of Maryland at College Park
4121
McKeldin Library
College
Park, Maryland 20742-7011
(301)
405-9127 (phone)
(301)
314-9408 (fax)
clowry@deans.umd.edu
Mr.
Thomas L. Wilding
Director
of Libraries
University
of Texas at Arlington
Box
19497
Arlington,
Texas 76019-0497
(817)
272-3390 (phone)
(817)
272-5797 (fax)
wilding@uta.edu
LINKS
UTA Department of History
UTA Schedule of History
Classes