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• About the Project
• ABCD Workshop
• Strategic Planning Workshop
• Hotel Information

Communities and Their Assets:

Community Asset Mapping for CTSA Community Engagement

Building community connections and partnerships in support of medical research, educationand practice that really work to impact community health

The UT Health Science Center Libraries are partnering with the South Central Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the Lower Rio Grande Valley AHEC to advance community engagement,  foster collaboration and promote library involvement in community engagement among the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) recipient institutions in the South Central Region. This is a pilot project for  (CTSA) Institutions in the South Central Region (SCR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).

The following events are being planned:

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Workshop

How to build community connections and partnerships in support of medical research, education and practice that really work to impact community health.

      San Antonio

      Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m., La Quinta Horizon Hill Conference Center, San Antonio

      Harlingen – Mario E. Ramirez Library

      Thursday, March 7, 2013, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon,   RAHC Auditorium

Strategic Planning Workshop, San Antonio

Limited to librarians and other personnel from institutions with a current Clinical and Translation Science Award or with a CTSA application pending or in the planning stages.

How librarians can be actively involved with CTSA key functions, CTSA administration, grant applications, research output and impact tracking, community engagement, and other CTSA initiatives.

     Friday, February 22, 2013, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon, Location TBD

For more information contact:

segerp@uthscsa.edu in San Antonio

reynag@uthscsa.edu in Harlingen

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN-276—2011-00007-C with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.

The Mario E. Ramirez, M.D., Library at the Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen is hosting a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine called, Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos.

The exhibit explores the relationship between healing and faith through the ex-voto, a devotional painting that gives thanks for a miraculous healing or blessing.  The exhibit will run from May 7^th – June 16^th.

P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library

The P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library houses a collection of approximately 5000 rare and classic texts in the history of medicine, nursing, dentistry and other health care disciplines, dating from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. The Nixon Library is named after Dr. Pat Ireland Nixon, a distinguished San Antonio physician and historian who worked determinedly to build an exceptional medical history collection.

5th floor of the Briscoe Library
Monday-Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

University Archives

The University Archives contain publications, papers, and other records that document the history of the Health Science Center and the history of medicine in the San Antonio and south Texas area. The Archives provides a reference service for the Health Science Center community and a repository for the preservation of historically important University records. Included in the collection are University publications, correspondence of key officials, minutes, student yearbooks, papers of early San Antonio physicians and more.

Digital Archive

The Digital Archives is a growing collection of digitized images, documents, and unique materials from the UT Health Science Center collections.

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Images

• Image of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library
• A class during the Fall of 1978. Nursing School Yearbook, 1980.
• Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543.