Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Announces Collections Newly Accessible Online. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced new and revised finding aids recently made available online, along with fresh uploads to the Texas Digital Archive, its repository of electronic items.” Too much here to summarize unfortunately.

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/07/texas-state-library-and-archives-commission-state-archives-announces-collections-newly-accessible-online-3/

University of Houston: UH Libraries Announces the Suzanne Paul Collection. “Suzanne Paul (1945 – 2005) a native Houstonian and pioneering female photographer, has made a vast contribution to representing the arts of Houston and to recording Houston’s art history. Through pure creative impetus and respect for the arts in the city, Suzanne photographed the heartbeat of Houston’s art scene […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/30/university-of-houston-uh-libraries-announces-the-suzanne-paul-collection/

OutSmart: Preserving Houston’s LGBTQ History: OutSmart Archives Go Digital. “For decades, Doyle has worked to preserve queer history through his JD Doyle Archives, which now hold over 22,000 pages of publications, ephemera, and stories from across Texas and beyond. While he had every issue of OutSmart in his personal collection, digitizing them felt daunting.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/27/preserving-houstons-lgbtq-history-outsmart-archives-go-digital-outsmart/

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Announces Collections Newly Accessible Online. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced new and revised finding aids recently made available online, along with fresh uploads to the Texas Digital Archive, its repository of electronic items.” Unfortunately the list is way too long for me to even TRY to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/05/texas-state-library-and-archives-commission-state-archives-announces-collections-newly-accessible-online-2/

KFDM: Hundreds of KFDM News tapes from the 70s and 80s being digitized for public viewing. “More than 600 tapes of KFDM newscasts from the 70s and 80s preserves history at the library from political events to everyday local news…. The collection takes up a large amount of space. Branch manager, Bill Grace, said this was one of the driving factors to digitize the tapes.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/kfdm-hundreds-of-kfdm-news-tapes-from-the-70s-and-80s-being-digitized-for-public-viewing/

Rice University: Rice students launch oral history archive to preserve Indigenous Texas stories. “Generations of silence are giving way to spoken truth through a new project at Rice University. In collaboration with the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project (TTBP), a nonprofit founded by Lipan Apache leader Lucille Contreras to restore Indigenous foodways and culture, Rice’s Weston Twardowski and a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/07/rice-university-rice-students-launch-oral-history-archive-to-preserve-indigenous-texas-stories/

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: State Archives Announces Collections Newly Accessible Online. “The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced new and revised finding aids recently made available online, along with fresh uploads to the Texas Digital Archive, its repository of electronic items.” Way too much for me to summarize.

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/25/texas-state-library-and-archives-commission-state-archives-announces-collections-newly-accessible-online/