News from the Libraries
New Look for EBSCO Databases – August 2025
August 8, 2025
Beginning August 5th, EBSCO launched a redesigned interface for its databases, including CINAHL, PsycInfo, and others. This means a new look and feel, plus a few minor changes to functionality. This is the new interface you will see: If you have a MyEBSCO account, your existing login will work in the new interface, and […]
Featured eBook: Health Communication: Research and Practice for a Diverse and Changing World
July 31, 2025
Health Communication: Research and Practice for a Diverse and Changing World Nancy Grant Harrington, Rachael A. Record Via the publisher: This textbook takes an in-depth approach to health communication by analyzing and critically evaluating research conducted across multiple paradigmatic perspectives and focusing on translational application of research findings. Using the story of the Montgomery family, […]
Start Your Semester off Right
July 31, 2025
A Message From the Executive Director of Libraries Welcome! If you are new to the UT Health San Antonio, welcome to this amazing academic health center. If you are returning, welcome back. This is a very special place with top-ranked academic programs, inspiring research, and exceptional clinical care and the very best students, faculty, and […]
HIV Out Loud & History of Medicine Lectures
July 30, 2025
Did you miss our Spring History of Medicine lecture? On May, 28th, Drs Rachel Pearson and Yolanda Crous presented HIV Out Loud: Building the History of an Epidemic. HIV Out Loud is a project focused on training health sciences students to become oral history interviewers. The doctors and their students interviewed local LGBT individuals about […]
History of Medicine Lecture: HIV Out Loud: Building the History of an Epidemic
May 14, 2025
HIV Out Loud: Building the History of an Epidemic P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library History of Medicine Lecture May 28th | 6PM Presented by Dr. Rachel Pearson and Dr. Yolanda Crous This presentation introduces HIV Out Loud, a collaborative project between community members, medical students, and the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library. The project explores […]
Message from the Executive Director May 2025
May 14, 2025
On Saturday, May 17, 2025, more than 880 students of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio will cross a commencement stage in the Alamodome and step into their futures as health care professionals. Commencement Day is always my favorite day on campus! I love seeing the graduates in their caps and […]
Featured eBook: HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society
May 14, 2025
HIV/AIDS in Memory, Culture and Society Alicia Castillo Villanueva, Angelos Bollas Book Description from the Publisher This volume examines the role of culture in developing social, cultural and political discourses of HIV/AIDS from a contemporary viewpoint. In doing so, the memory of HIV/AIDS is a powerful tool to examine representations of the past and connect […]
Meet Our Team – Dana Whitmire
May 14, 2025
I was raised in San Antonio, TX and have worked at UT Health San Antonio Library since 2007. I graduated from the University of North Texas with a master’s in library science. I also have a Bachelor of Arts in English from Schreiner University. Describe yourself in three words. Inquisitive; Analytical; Productive What is your […]
Library Furniture Improvements
April 17, 2025
The Libraries added new furniture and furnishings to the public spaces from January to April including enhancement to 14 cafe-height stools, 100 new chairs, reupholstery of three ottomans, three new rolling whiteboards, and new lampshades representing an investment of $62,000 in new furnishings for the public spaces of the library. The cafe-height stools near the […]
Message from the Executive Director – April 2025
April 17, 2025
Happy Spring! April marks the new season of spring and is the month we celebrate National Library Week and show appreciation for library workers. This month, I am grateful for the wonderful team of librarians and staff who make the UT Health San Antonio Libraries the amazing place that it is. Their hard work and […]