Widener, Emma Molina

Michael Widener received both his bachelor's degree in journalism and master's of library and information science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Following his graduation, Michael worked as head of special collections at the Tarlton Law Library at UT Austin and as the Rare Book Librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University. His wife, Emma Molina Widener, received her bachelor's degree in political science and public administration from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México as well as a master's degree in Library Science and another in Latin American Studies from UT Austin. Emma authored The Border Problem: A Guide to Sources of Information (1979), and translated several works from English to Spanish with Michael, such as 12 Bibliotecarios Latinamericanos (1992). In 1993, they received a grant from the U. S.-Mexico fund for Culture (Fideicomiso para la Cultura México/USA) to translate the papers of Lorenzo de Zavala, housed in the Briscoe Center for American History.