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A recurrent theme in her collecting and cataloging work has been material not available from commercial publishing houses, such as publications of government agencies, which she has described as "excellent but poorly publicized reference sources." From annual collecting trips across Brazil, Hartness
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Retired in 2008, Hartness was a member of the first broad generation of women to rise to professional academic leadership positions in the US. Hartness worked for 38 years at UT Austin, beginning as a serials cataloger in 1970. Her assistance has been acknowledged in original research by numerous
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Hartness's published works also include a review of reference books since 1965 concerning Brazil, first published in
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Southern Cone: research trends and library collections for the year 2000 = Continuidade e mudanȧs no Brasil e no Cone Sul tendéncias de pesquisa e acervos bibliográficos para o ano 2000: papers of the thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Seminar on the
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field office in Brazil in 1989-90. In March 2022, the
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Hartness' focus on Brazil and collecting trips there helped make the UT library a global resource for study of that country. In 2003, Brazil named her a
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Brazil in Reference Books: an annotated bibliography, 1965–1989
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