Owen Ellard, Senior Director of Libraries

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Owen Ellard as Senior Director of Libraries at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio effective February 1, 2016.Owen Ellard, Senior Director of Libraries

Mr. Ellard has most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Texas Medical Center Library in Houston. Prior to his appointment at the TMC Library, he held directorships at the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center at The University of New Mexico, Skeen Library at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. He has previously worked in San Antonio at the Sueltenfuss Library of Our Lady of the Lake University. Mr. Ellard brings to the Health Science Center at San Antonio tremendous depth of experience in librarianship, including expertise at the interface of libraries and information technology. He holds degrees from the University of Manchester, the University of South Florida, and Pennsylvania State University, and he has been a participant in the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s leadership development program and the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Group on Information Resources (GIR) Leadership Institute.

He takes over this role from Rajia Tobia who retired in January 2016. Please join us in congratulating Mr. Ellard on his appointment. Below is his contact information.

Owen Ellard, MLIS, MA
Senior Director of Libraries
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MSC 7940
San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900
Phone: 210.567.2413
E-mail: ellard@uthscsa.edu

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