Toward that end, we seek support for public programs, exhibitions, publications, touring presentations and displays, and other outreach activities that help bring people and their history together. Provide training opportunities for students through internships and research support for students and scholars through travel grants and fellowships. We are eager to extend support to students and scholars to travel to the Center to use our unique collections. We seek private support to fund UT-student internships and for travel grants and fellowships that will enable the brightest students and scholars in Texas and the nation to travel to Austin to use our collections. Increase access to our research collections through new technologies.
Technology is essential to our goal of providing worldwide access to our unique collections.
We seek resources to investigate, acquire, install, and implement technologies that will help bring people and our collections together, both locally and off-site. Renovate the Center's facilities in Sid Richardson Hall. Our Research and Collections Division , located in Sid Richardson Hall 2, was built in 1970. Today, this facility needs renovation and retrofitting to meet the needs of increased research use and collection preservation and storage, and to take advantage of new technologies for collection access and resource sharing. Private support will help us renovate the division's public research and reading room, exhibition space, staff work areas, and on-site storage areas.