The Harry Ransom Center continues to monitor COVID-19 and to take appropriate steps for the safety of researchers and staff.
Because of a recent positive test result in our community, we are taking the necessary precaution of closing the Reading and Viewing Room while University Health Services engages in contact tracing.
We will reopen to researchers as soon as we are able.
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After a fifteen-month closure, Ransom Center staff members will welcome researchers back to the Reading Room for limited research services beginning July 12th. [Read more…] about Ransom Center to reopen July 12 to researchers
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. [Read more…] about The slow research of collection development
A day turns into a week into a month, and more. Over the past year, our sense of time has extended into ongoing uncertainty from a global pandemic. For those grounded close to home, if we are lucky, our environments have become circumscribed by thresholds and windows, actual and virtual, sensing global interconnections in the very fragile air that we breathe. Others have been unable to breathe. Challenges this past year, including systemic racial inequities, grow out of long histories. Living in the present, what we call past once had alternative futures, even as our linear narratives timestamp 2020 into 2021.
[Read more…] about THRESHOLD ECOLOGIES: On Earth (and on Earth Day)
by IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. [Read more…] about What is research but a conversation in search of the truth?
by ANNE TERRILL
This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Learn about the series and click here to add your voice to the conversation. [Read more…] about ETCHED ARCHIVE: Windows at the Harry Ransom Center
