July 1, 2014, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsTwo interactive activities added to The World at War: 1914-1918 Two new interactive activities—an audio tour and a passport project—are now available for visitors to the exhibition The World at War, 1914–1918. Daniel Carter, a PhD student in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin who researches how people interact with cultural objects, facilitated the pilot… read more
June 26, 2014, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsTexas collection of comedias sueltas and Spanish theater available for research and in online database The Texas Collection of Comedias Sueltas and Spanish Theater is available for research. Individual records for each suelta are also available in an online database, providing extensive information about the collection. The collection includes more than 15,000 “comedias sueltas,” a generic term for plays published in small pamphlet format in… read more
June 17, 2014, Filed Under: Cataloging, Theatre + Performing ArtsCataloging project reveals previously unknown copy of a comedia suelta The cataloging of the Texas collection of comedias sueltas at the Harry Ransom Center—funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources, Cataloguing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program—has proven to be a great success in revealing unknown jewels of early printed theater in Spain. One such jewel is Juan… read more
