Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

maps.lib.utexas.edu

53 points·Tomte··8 comments

When I was in grad school at UT Austin we spent a lot of time studying in the map room. As I recall, the tables were quite large and gave us space to spread out books and printouts. We weren't doing anything map-related. It was just a good space.

I also spent a lot of time in the reading room of the Architecture and Planning Library, which was so beautiful it was sometimes hard to focus on what I was studying:

https://soa.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/media/Battle%20Ha...

As an engineer the PCL seemed like foreign territory as it was in the other side of campus. Thus it was a nice place to go and think, especially in the map room, it was a magic place.

I spent many hours studying in the map room of the PCL in the basement. Nice to see that they’re all digitized

They aren't. It says right on the page that only 20% are actually online. Additionally the site is now archived and doesn't get any further updates.

A shame really that an university department needs/needed to rely on external funding to digitize the maps it already has and apparently they didn't get enough money and now stopped the effort

Or maybe they didn't stop the effort and only this page is not the "go-to" place anymore. Bit unclear to me

Could someone describe what this collection is? Is it a museum?

The PCL is the primary library on the UT Austin campus. This is all of the maps in their collection.

Thank you

More like: This is 20% of the maps in their collection

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