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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 […]

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 Nat Love and Bill Pickett. The Institute of Texan Cultures preserves these legacies through documentaries and interviews, celebrating Black History Month.

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 promote partnerships among faculty, staff, and the community in digital scholarship methods, projects, teaching, and research.The digital scholarship initiatives developed through CEDISH will be integrated into academic programs and curricula, providing students with the necessary knowledge and technical skills applicable to their coursework and future careers after graduation.

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 library liaison for the anthropology, modern languages, linguistics, criminal justice and geography departments.

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 creating free or Open Educational Resource (OER) textbooks as the primary instructional materials in their courses. These grants will result in substantial student savings, totaling $552,686 over the course of the grant period.

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 vote, the winner was former First Lady of Texas Miriam A. Ferguson.  In 1924 San Antonio residents learned that William Randolph Hearst purchased The San Antonio […]

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 and directly support the success of UTSA students. The application period is now open for UTSA faculty members interested in applying for one or both grants. The deadline for submitting applications for either grant is March 18.

Two Texas Universities Partner with Chef Adán Medrano for New Book Series on Texas Borderlands Cooking

Two prestigious universities in Texas, Texas Tech University and The University of Texas at San Antonio, are in final discussions with food author Adán Medrano to collaborate on a new book series on Texas Borderlands cooking. The series, with a planned announcement date of 2024, will be published by Texas Tech University Press and feature contributions from The University of Texas at San Antonio Library Special Collections.

UTSA Libraries opens 12 new study spaces at JPL

(NOVEMBER 27, 2023)

Just in time for finals, UTSA Libraries opened 12 new study rooms on the 4th floor of the John Peace Library. The study rooms each come equipped with a 50” monitor and whiteboards to assist with group study. A limited supply of HDMI cables to allow students to connect their laptops to the monitors can be checked out at the library’s 2nd-floor front desk.

New in Digital Collections: For Our Times Digitized Videos

Recently added to our Digital Collections website are digitized episodes from the CBS series For Our Times from the John Phillip Santos Collection. The UTSA Digital Collections website previously had 5 episodes from the series available to view. The completion of a recent digitization project adds about 15 new episodes of the series online. Highlights […]