WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE BLAC
by Jane GarnerFebruary 2011
MAJOR DATES
1920-2119341970
Old Main Building, 1891
18841889
1891
Library
Battle Hall
2011
1931
ACQUISITION OF THE GENARO GARCIA LIBRARY
1920-21
Who was Genaro García?Mexican bibliophileLawyer Historian Director of the Museo Nacional de
Historia, Arqueología y Etnología, Mexico City
Genaro García’s Library
11,000 volumes15,000 pamphlets“numerous” newspaper files200,000 pages of manuscripts
and archival collections
Bookplate and stamp of Genaro García
Missale Morinensis, Paris, 1491
Oldest book owned by the BLAC
University contactUT Regent Lutcher Stark
UT Prof. Charles Hackett
From Mexico City to Austin, 1921
E.W. (Ernest William) Winkler
García Library at UT
Carlos Castañeda and the García Library
1927 campus map1931
FROM BATTLE HALL TO MAIN BUILDING
1934
Moving to the new Main Building, 1934
2011
Old Main
LAC/Texas Collections
Base of Tower
LAC/TexasCollections
The JGI Collection, 1937
Oldest Mexican imprint in the BLAC [1544] and
bookplate of Joaquín García Icazbalceta
The “Relaciones Geográficas”
Atitlan, Guatemala, 1585
BLAC Reading Room, 1940
Nettie Lee Benson
1965 1967
Reading Room and Annex (Tower)
former classrooms
Why We Needed to Move
Staff in their “Offices”
FROM MAIN BUILDING TO SID RICHARDSON HALL,
UNIT 11970
East Campus Library & Research Center Building
Moving the BLAC, Dec. 28-31, 1970
Bookmover minus dolly
Marcas de fuego (book brands)
How Not to Design a Library
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED“It is most fitting that such a collection should be built at this University because located as it is, in Austin, almost on the border of Mexico, the gateway to that vast region that lies south of the Rio Grande, it is the most accessible place to scholars of this country and of Latin-America.”
(Carlos Castañeda?)
THE END