University of Texas – Austin Submitted by: Larayne Dallas
We encourage service by phone and over Zoom, and that works well
As compared with the past, we have been getting more questions about how to properly communicate with the USPTO, especially when things haven’t gone well
Still getting support from retired colleagues who had helped get our Patent Depository Library (PTDL) designation on June 16, 1983
Susan Ardis, former Head of the Engineering Library, lives just outside of Austin, and Virginia Phillips, Head of Branch Services and now 102 years old, lives just off campus
Larayne Dallas showing their role by displaying items from the historical past of the college of engineering:
Photo on right: The trophy is from athletic competitions in the early 1900s.
Photo on left: Jar of rocks came to us recently. They were saved and labeled in 1952 when, in Operation Gopher, students dug out under the Engineering Building to create space for a recreation and study area.
