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1. 1 media/HB_fund.jpg 2018-10-10T22:18:34-07:00 Rachael Zipperer 733bca2661a68a774f69c1b20ebce2dbab84cbc1 Harold Billings Fund for Collection Enhancement Established Rachael Zipperer 3 The fund was created after Billings' retirement by a donation from his daughter, Carol Billings Blood, to support the purchase of books and other materials for UT Libraries. plain 2018-10-10T22:25:35-07:00 2006 Rachael Zipperer 733bca2661a68a774f69c1b20ebce2dbab84cbc1

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• 1 media/Billings_oncampus.jpg media/Billings_consulate.jpg 2018-07-12T16:40:04-07:00 Advocacy & Leadership 23 Billings was instrumental in establishing UT Libraries reputation as a top-ranking research institution. image_header 793115 2018-10-16T18:24:08-07:00 The analog to digital transition was a particularly challenging time for libraries everywhere. During Harold W. Billings’ term as director of the University of Texas Libraries from 1978 to 2003, libraries were under the scrutiny of critics predicting their eventual irrelevance. To this Billings responded,

  “I don’t believe a word of it... The information world, now wild with its riders and rich in its unstructured wonders, will require the attention of architects and planners, builders, guides, computing and security officers, and information specialists if it is to be turned from wilderness into the rational, near limitless, knowledge structure that is possible”. 

  Near the beginning of his tenor as director, the Perry-Castañeda Library building was completed and opened as the main library branch. By his retirement in 2002, UT Libraries vastly expanded their resources to include both access to online databases and a new 21st Century study area and computer workstation. 
  
  Billings’ support for the libraries was ongoing, and in 2003 the UT Libraries Staff Honors Endowment was renamed for Billings. The Harold Billings Fund for Collection Enhancement was established in 2006 as the result of a donation by his daughter, Carol Billings Blood, to support the purchase of books and materials for the libraries. 
  
  Through Billings' skill in building partnerships, his openness to the evolving role of librarians, and his passionate advocacy for the field, UTL not only weathered these changes but built its reputation as one of the nation’s top-ranking research libraries . 
• 1 media/HB_fund.jpg 2018-10-10T22:18:34-07:00 Harold Billings Fund for Collection Enhancement Established 6 The fund was created after Billings' retirement by a donation from his daughter, Carol Billings Blood, to support the purchase of books and other materials for UT Libraries. plain 2018-10-15T22:25:17-07:00 2006 Continuing Billings' mission of building the Libraries' collections, this fund endowed by a gift from his daughter carries on the former director's legacy. The Harold Billings Fund for Collection Enhancement is used to purchase books and other materials for the ever growing libraries.