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Facility Usage

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Harry Ransom Center Lobby

The Ransom Center has spaces that are available to University of Texas colleges and departments, and groups with a University affiliation, for presentations, meetings, receptions, lectures, and screenings. These spaces are on the first and third floors of the Ransom Center.

To request use of space on the first and/or third floor, please complete and submit the Space Use Request Form. The request form provides information about costs associated with spaces. Ransom Center programming staff will review all requests. Please contact Lisa Murray with questions regarding space use at the Ransom Center.

The three classrooms on the second floor of the Ransom Center are not available for general University access. These rooms are reserved for courses that require extensive use of Ransom Center collection material. To request a classroom, please contact Kristin Ware at 512-471-9119 or ware_kristin@mail.utexas.edu

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Space Use Request Form

 

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Director Thomas F. Staley explains how original source materials stimulate and enhance the learning experience.

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The Mike Wallace Interview

Watch broadcast journalist Mike Wallace's interviews from the television program The Mike Wallace Interview. Wallace donated the show's footage on 16mm kinescope to the Ransom Center in the early 1960s. Most episodes have not been seen since they aired.

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