Martha González Palacios began her tenure as the Architecture & Planning Librarian at University of Texas at Austin on August 12th - just in time to welcome in the fall semester. Her new colleague, Beth Dodd, writes, "Martha brings a remarkable combination of experiences to this position that support reference, library instruction and the development of collections."

Martha most recently worked at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver where she served as a library liaison. She has worked in various library-related positions at the University of British Columbia, Burnaby Public Library, and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Before entering librarianship she worked as an architect in Mexico.

Martha received her Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia. She also holds degrees in Fine Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and in Architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.

Martha attended her first ARLIS/Texas-Mexico Chapter meeting in Guadalajara last November.