August 23, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Digital CollectionsThe magically real digital archive of Gabriel García Márquez In December 2015, the Council on Library and Information Resources granted the Harry Ransom Center a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award to scan more than 24,000 pages from the Gabriel García Márquez archive.
September 25, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, CatalogingOur year with J. Frank Dobie Thanks to support from the TexTreasures grant program of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the papers of Texas writer, folklorist, and educator J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) are now
June 17, 2015, Filed Under: Conservation, Research + TeachingPreserving and Enhancing Access to Physicist Owen W. Richardson’s Papers With the generous support of a grant from the History Programs, American Institute of Physics, the Ransom Center has created a new online finding aid for the papers of English physicist Owen W. Richardson (1879–1959). The papers were originally processed during the 1960s and described on more than 8,000 catalog… read more
