January 4, 2016, Filed Under: Digital CollectionsAward supports digitization of more than 24,000 images from the Gabriel García Márquez archive The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has granted the Harry Ransom Center a 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award to digitize more than 24,000 pages from the Gabriel García Márquez archive.
December 22, 2015, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Exhibitions + EventsExplore Shakespeare’s first folio online The publication of the First Folio in 1623 marks the proper beginning of Shakespeare’s works becoming widely known, read, and performed by successive generations, his reputation enduring 400 years after his death.
December 15, 2015, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Meet the StaffMeet docent Carol Headrick—lifelong teacher, Texas native, and manuscript enthusiast Harry Ransom Center docents are volunteer guides who lead daily tours of the Center’s exhibitions. In the months leading up to exhibition openings, docents work closely with exhibition curators to gain a more complete understanding of exhibition items and content. The docent training process involves readings, discussion, and intense familiarization… read more