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Celebrating the flavor of memories through Mexican cuisine
As part of its Hispanic Heritage Month observance, UTSA Libraries will host its annual Ven a Comer celebration, honoring the rich history of Mexican culinary traditions, with a particular focus on the Mexican Cookbook Collection.UTSA Libraries offers helpful resources for the new semester
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024 — Students at UTSA are finding exciting new resources at UTSA Libraries this semester, enhancing their learning and collaboration experiences. From cutting-edge tech gear available for borrowing to the new Librarian Lab, the UTSA Libraries is key to supporting students in their academic journey.
Update on Preserving and Digitizing the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Audiovisual Collections
From October 2022 to August 2024, I have been processing a large collection of audiovisual materials created and collected by the Institute of Texan Cultures, and held by UTSA Special Collections in the Institute of Texan Cultures Audiovisual Production Department Records. The collection included a large variety of audiovisual formats, including 16mm and 35mm film, […]
New exhibit offers iconic creations from Warhol, Longo, Mapplethorpe
UTSA presents "Cultural Bounty," showcasing 114 artworks by Warhol, Mapplethorpe, and Longo. Exhibit runs Aug 1 to Nov 2 at Russell Hill Rogers Galleries. Opening reception on Sept 5.
Join us for a plática on May 16th: “Willie Velásquez: Su Voz” !
UTSA Libraries Special Collections and the family of Willie Velásquez will unite for an evening to celebrate the life and legacy of one of America’s most influential voting rights advocates, William C. Velásquez. The plática will serve as a tribute, marking what would have been Velásquez’s 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of the establishment […]
UTSA professor to discuss program connecting students and incarcerated scholars at upcoming Pizza & Research
UTSA Honors College and Philosophy & Classics Professor of Instruction Mel Webb recently reached a milestone in their academic career: the fifth anniversary of a class that positively impacts the lives of both UTSA students and incarcerated individuals at the Fabian Dominguez State Jail.Exploring the Legacy of a San Antonio Culinary and Entrepreneurial Icon
UTSA commemorates Women's History Month with an exhibit honoring Rosemary Kowalski, a San Antonio hospitality icon. The exhibit showcases her 70+ year career through photographs, recipes, calendars, and personal mementos.UTSA and TTU Press seek writers for new indigenous foodways book series
UTSA Libraries Special Collections and Texas Tech University Press collaborate on a book series, "Indigenous Foodways of Texas and Northern Mexico," leveraging UTSA's Mexican Cookbook Collection and TTUP's publishing expertise to delve into and share Indigenous food traditions, techniques, and histories.Faces and Places of Texas: Preserving and Digitizing the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Audiovisual Collections
This blog post is written by Graeme Martin our audiovisual archivist It has been about a year and a half since I was hired as the audiovisual archivist on the ILMS grant-funded project to catalog and process the audiovisual items in the Institute of Texan Cultures Audiovisual Projection Department Records collection. The goal is to […]
Diana & Julia: A Friendship Through Correspondence
This post celebrates the 101st birthday of Diana Kennedy on March 3rd. In 2019, Special Collections began acquiring materials from British food journalist Diana Kennedy. Over the last five years, what started with eleven 19th-century published cookbooks has grown to include the Diana Kennedy Papers as well as her research library. While processing these materials, […]
UTSA Libraries Launches CEDISH: Supporting Faculty Research and Local Storytelling for Collaborative Digital Scholarship
(FEBRUARY 20, 2024)In collaboration with faculty members, UTSA Libraries has launched the Community-Engaged Digital Scholarship Hub (CEDISH), a new initiative that will not only support faculty-initiated research projects but also turn local stories into humanities projects to be utilized in academic programs and courses. The goal of this new initiative is to build a supportive environment that fosters collaborative teaching and research using digital methods.
Introducing Our New Digital Collections Specialist
We are thrilled to announce our new Digital Collections Specialist, Vic Rocha. Vic was most recently a Library Shelver with the Seguin Public Library. They also recently received their MLIS with a concentration in Archival Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Tell us a bit about your background. I graduated from UTSA in 2018 with […]