Tarlton Law Library Archives

About

Tarlton Law Library's archival and manuscript collections contains valuable documents relevant to legal history and the history of legal education in Texas and the United States. They also chronicle the outstanding contributions that Law School faculty and alumni have made to the legal institutions of Texas and the United States.

Tarlton’s archives hold papers of law school deans, professors, and Texas and Federal judges, records of several law school organizations and related legal institutions, photograph collections, faculty writings, oral history interviews. The records total approximately 5,000 linear feet.

Online portal

The archives website documents the holdings and serves as the main access point for collections discovery. It has been recently updated to reflect the most recent information and to structure it in a more user-friendly way:

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/special-collections/archives

Many of the links on the main portal link to information recorded in the Tarlton Library Archives Guide, which is part of the Tarlton Guides collection. The Archives Guide is scheduled to be phased out in favor of a more user-friendly interface. The purpose of Tarlton Guides is to provide help to law students researching various legal subjects:

http://tarltonguides.law.utexas.edu/content.php?pid=98509&sid=738704

Finding aids

Most finding aids are accessible through TARO. Example:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlaw/00032/00032-P.html

Some finding aids are PDF files. These can only be accessed through Tarlton portal. Example:

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/findingaids/hildebrand.pdf

TALLONS, the Law School library catalog, contains bibliographic records of some archival holdings at the collection level. The link to finding aid is embedded in the catalog record and is easily visible for the viewer. Example:

http://tallons.law.utexas.edu/record=b1515081

Digital collections

Multiple collections have been partially digitized to create online exhibits accompanied by extensive notes describing relevant history and context. The list of digital exhibits of various complexity (static pages, searchable databases) can be found here:

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/collections/digital

Other digital collections are in CONTENTdm. These collections are typically image based with little supplementary text needed. There is some overlap between CONTENTdm collections and digital exhibits:

http://tarlton.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/

Some digital objects are uploaded to the UT Digital Repository. For example, UT School of Law Buildings Photograph collection.  We are not currently using the UT Digital Repository for image-based collections:

http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/10953