UTEP History: Library Resources

Located in Media & Microforms.
University of Texas at El Paso recruitment video showing high school students how to apply to UTEP.

Located in Media & Microforms.
Videotaped shots of the front of UTEP Library; (silent) and a 30 second spot used by KVIA-TV for the Independence Bowl football game (with sound).

Located in Media & Microforms.
UTEP Business department, its history, current state in 1979, and its future.

Located in the Cages of Special Collections.
Variety of photographs taken on the University of Texas at El Paso campus pulled from promo tapes December 1988. Silent.

Located in Media & Microforms.
Variety of photographs taken on the University of Texas at El Paso campus pulled from promo tapes Dec. of 1988. Some with commentary, but mainly silent.

Located in Media & Microforms.
Information on the work UTEP was doing during the year of its 75th anniversary.

Located in Media & Microforms.
History of UTEP leading to the year of its 75th anniversary.

Located in Media & Microforms.
UTEP's celebration and parade for its 50th anniversary.

Located in Media & Microforms.
Videotaping of presentation for the Friends of the University Library's 20th Anniversary. The speaker Dr. Haskell Monroe was president of UTEP 1980-87 and directed the building of the Library.

Located in Media & Microforms.
Three versions of the same slide presentation. University of Texas at El Paso recruitment presentations.

Link goes to Texas Archive of the Moving Image
C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department, University of Texas at El Paso Library
This promotional film for the University of Texas at El Paso, then called Texas Western College, presents the founding, achievements, and academic and athletic offerings of the first 45 years of the institution's history.

National Geographic article read by Kathleen Worrell that inspired the Bhutanese architecture of UTEP.

Available in the main stack and Special Collections Rare and Southwest.

Available in the main stacks and in Special Collections Hertzog and Southwest.

Available in the main stacks and in Special Collections Hertzog, Rare, and Southwest.

Available in the main stacks and Special Collections Cage, Hertzog, Manuscripts, Rare, and Southwest.

Book is Library Use Only. Available at the Reference Desk, Special Collections Rare and Southwest.

Available in main stacks, M&M and Special Collections First Floor.

Available in Special Collections Manuscripts.

The Prospector is a student publication from UTEP. The Library has July 1, (1915)- The current issues are kept until they arrive in microform format.

Provides full-text/full-image access to the historical digital archives of The Prospector, a publication of the Division of Student Affairs, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Coverage: 1915 - 2003. Updates vary.
Every newspaper in the database is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy to quickly explore historical content. Use the archive to gain a local perspective on historical news, to research your family history, or to simply read about a person or event of interest. We invite you to visit the archive often, as additional pages will be added as they become available. This archive is hosted by NewspaperARCHIVE.com largest historical newspaper database online.

Also available online

Joseph Ray was president of the Texas Western College when it became the University of Texas at El Paso, and he has some reminiscences of regents and chancellors in his papers. There is also his personal journal with notes taken at the Board of Regents meeting when they learned of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Portraits of the UT System Chancellors. This collection of portraits formerly hung in the UTEP Administration Building.