Find a wealth of research collections in Special Collections. We serve UT Arlington students, staff, and faculty as well as researchers from around the world.

Collections

• Archives and Collections
  Historical materials, in all formats, relating to Texas, the U. S. War with Mexico of 1846-1848, the cartographic history of Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Southwest, and Mexico from 1810 to 1920.


• Cartographic Connections
  On-line access to images of maps with lesson plans.

Finding and Accessing Materials

• Catalog
  Most Special Collections book and journal holdings, historical manuscripts, and archives -- including the university, political and labor collections; graphics; and a number of the Spanish language collections -- appear in the UT Arlington Library Catalog.


• Bibliographies
  Selected resources for research by subject.
  
  
  • Using Primary Sources: Resources for teachers for today's media-saturated students.

• Finding Aids
  Documents containing detailed information about specific special collections at UT Arlington.
  
  
  • Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) contains Special Collections' detailed guides compiled specifically to describe the arrangement and contents of a collection and to comment on its research potential.

Using and Handling Materials

• Policies: relating to using and handling materials.