LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship

The LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Office, a joint UT Libraries and College of Liberal Arts initiative, promotes and deploys the critical and ethical application of digital technologies in the study and teaching of Latin American society, cultural heritage, and communities throughout the Americas.

Our objectives are to build the technical capacity of students, faculty, professionals, and communities, locally, nationally, and internationally, and facilitate and innovate the ethical compilation, analysis, and presentation of research using digital methodologies and tools.

The DS Lab staff provides consultations on individual research projects ranging from the exploratory/conceptual to the final stage and the use of digital tools/methods, and special collections to facilitate, reinvigorate, and transform research and teaching. We also train on specific digital tools used in research and analysis, methods for applied-use of digital special collection assets, and the introduction of digital tools and content into curricula.

Students working on digital scholarship projects can also reserve our iMacs workstations or space by appointment (please make these requests a week in advance).

In your email to Digital Scholarship staff, please include: name, date, time, area of research, and specific needs (consultation and/or software training).