Commons:University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries is the library serving the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), a public research university located in Arlington, Texas. Its Special Collections specializes in the cartographic history of Texas and the border region, Texas history, and the Mexican-American War. It is also home to the University Archives, Texas Political History Collection, and Texas Labor Archives.
The UTA Libraries began contributing content from its collections to Wikimedia Commons in May 2019, beginning with its map collections. The UTA Libraries has also contributed the entire University of Texas at Arlington Photograph Collection, University of Texas at Arlington News Service Photograph Collection, and Jenkins Garrett Texas Postcard Collection. The UTA Libraries has additionally contributed numerous smaller collections such as the Clarence Denman Papers, Emerson Emory Papers, and Pancho Medrano Papers. On November 24, 2020, the UTA Libraries uploaded its 1,000th image to Wikimedia Commons.
Metrics documenting the collaboration include GLAMorous metrics on image use and BaGLAMa 2 metrics on total pageviews of articles including UTA Libraries images.