Time Frames Online. Since 2003, the treasures of Special Collections have been highlighted in a weekly feature in the Sunday edition of the Arlington Star-Telegram. Time Frames regularly spotlights a photograph, map, or document drawn from a broad spectrum of subjects in our extensive collections of the history of Arlington, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Texas, Mexico and the greater Southwest. And now with "Time Frames Online" (TFO) you have an opportunity to view selected Time Frames features as a vodcast!

The Road West: Travel through America Throughout American history, people have moved westward across the landscape. From early travelers plodding across the plains in wagons and stagecoaches, to modern wanderers racing down paved interstates, people have always required information about where they are going and how they are going to get there. The new exhibit "The Road West: Travel through America" looks at what travelers used to trek across the country, what they saw and how they remembered their trips.

"The Road West" runs from June 1 to August 8 in the Special Collections Library, located on the 6th floor of UT Arlington's Central Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Hours are 9 a.m – 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Call 817-272-2179 for more information.

Revisualizing Westward Expansion Revisualizing Westward Expansion: A Century of Conflict, 1800-1900 is the title of the fall 2008 exhibit in UT Arlington Library's Special Collections and the theme of the Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography on October 3, 2008. The lectures' theme grew from a desire to highlight the fact that the American West is a strength of several of the D/FW Metroplex's greatest collections, including UT Arlington's Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, the Amon Carter Museum, and Southern Methodist University's DeGolyer Library.

This exhibit runs through the fall semester. Maps on display follow the theme of Maps of Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century American West and will include numerous impressive smaller maps from UT Arlington's collections as well as some significant maps generously loaned by the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University and a private collector. On display will be a manuscript map of Mexico relating to the 1803-1804 North American trip of Alexander von Humboldt, the German geographer, scientist, explorer, and intellectual genius of his time. Also on exhibit will be original printed maps of the period associated with other famous men of that century of conflict such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Zebulon Pike, Albert Gallatin, John C. Fremont, Zachary Taylor, William H. Emory, and John Wesley Powell.

Special Collections is on the sixth floor of Central Library. This exhibit is free and open to the public. Special Collections hours are Monday 9am to 7pm and Tuesday through Saturday 9am to 5pm. For more information call all 817-272-3393 or email spcoref@uta.edu.

The Reeder Children's Theatre Presents...Memories of Fort Worth's Reeder School, Drawing on the extensive Dickson and Flora Reeder Papers and Reeder School Records, the journey begins with the origins of Reeder School and explores the selection, production, and performance of the school's plays as well as the students' immersion into the art, history, music, dance and culture of a play's era. Original hand-painted Reeder School costumes, headpieces, and props colorfully accent original play scripts, musical scores, programs, production notes, photographs, and costume and set design sketches. The exhibit is a collaborative effort between UT Arlington Special Collections manuscript archivist Brenda McClurkin, Information Literacy librarian Evelyn Barker, and Hip Pocket Theater producer and costume designer, Diane Simons.

The Compass Rose, a semi-annual newsletter, includes articles highlighting Special Collections' holdings and activities.