Flawn_Academic_Center
Flawn Academic Center
Library at the University of Texas at Austin
The Peter T. Flawn Academic Center (abbreviated FAC, formerly the Undergraduate Library and Academic Center)[1] is an undergraduate library and "technology and collaboration" facility located on the University of Texas at Austin campus.[2][3] The center, named after former university president Peter T. Flawn in 1983,[4] opened between 1963 and 1964.[5][6] Upon its opening, the building featured the first open-stack library on campus for undergraduates along with much of the Humanities Research Center.[5]
Among the permanent displays in the Center's Leeds Gallery is a re-creation of Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner's study along with personal effects. Charles Umlauf's sculpture The Torchbearers is located at the front of the building.[7]