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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,…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…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…
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,…
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-…
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…
Workin’ From Can’t to Can’t: African-American Cowboys in Texas
One in four cowboys in the Old West were Black, yet their stories are often overlooked. Films like "Hell on the Border" and "The Harder They Fall" shed light on figures like…
UTSA Libraries will launch new initiative for digital scholarship research
January 26, 2024 - UTSA Libraries, in collaboration with faculty partners, will hold an Open House to launch the Community-Engaged Digital Scholarship Hub (CEDISH). This new initiative aims to…
In Memoriam: UTSA Libraries commemorates the legacy of librarian Rita Wilson
UTSA Libraries and the entire UTSA community are mourning the loss of librarian Rita Wilson, who passed away earlier this month. Wilson was the UTSA government document expert and subject area…Congratulations UTSA 2023-24 Adopt-a-Free-Textbook faculty grant winners
(JANUARY 17, 2024) — UTSA Libraries announces that seven Adopt-a-Free-Textbook grants have been awarded to 11 faculty members for the 2023-24 academic year for their commitment to adopting or…
100 Years Ago in Texas: A Selection from the Photograph Collections
Like today, the presidential election was a prominent feature of the news in 1924.  There was also a Texas gubernatorial election.  Just four years after women were allowed to…
Apply for faculty grants that improve teaching and bolster student success
(DECEMBER 19, 2023) — UTSA Libraries is pleased to announce it will again offer faculty two grants, Faculty Teaching in the Archives (FTIA) and Adopt-a-Free Textbook, designed to enhance teaching…