Library Updates

News From the Libraries – August 2015

The August issue of News from the Libraries is now available.  For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below.

3D Print now available

Proposed Journal Cancellations for FY16

New England Journal of Medicine Backfiles Now Available

AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery Upgrades

3D Printing at the Library

Danny Jones Essay Competition

Dentists: Prisoners of the Rising Sun

WWI Poster Exhibit

Promotores and Community Health Worker Groups

Library Exchange Program

What’s New in ClinicalKey?

Featured New Books

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News From the Libraries – July 2015

The July issue of News from the Libraries is now available.  For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below.

Laredo area 6th & 7th grade students attending an AHEC summer science camp enjoy looking at the anatomical models at the Laredo Regional Campus Library

Laredo area 6th & 7th grade students attending an AHEC
summer science camp enjoy looking at the anatomical
models at the Laredo Regional Campus Library

Holiday Hours – July 4th Weekend

Construction on 4th Floor

Faculty Survey – Recommend a Journal

Laredo Library – AHEC Orientations & Tours

NIH Public Access Policy

Looking For a New Way to Study?

P.I. Nixon Library Hosts UTSA Art Students

Featured New Books

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News From the Libraries – October 2015

The October issue of News from the Libraries is now available.  For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below.3D skull

Book Giveaway Oct. 7-9

Danny Jones Essay Contest-Deadline Oct. 12

Medicine’s Michelangelo: Life and Art of Frank Netter, MD

Jaclyn Georges Hired as Records Manager/Archivist

Library School Students Receive Award

Library Hosts Girl Scouts Troop 128

Breast Cancer and its Treatment

History of Medicine Society Draws Record Attendance

What’s New in ClinicalKey

Featured New Books

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News From the Libraries – September 2015

The September issue of News from the Libraries is now available.  For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below.

Photograph of a wooden treasure chest with jewels

Ramirez Library Now Part of UTRGV

AccessMedicine App

Anne Comeaux Retires After 40 Years Service

History of the Health Science Scavenger Hunt

45th Annual P.I. Nixon Library Dinner

Potent Potions and Healing Herbs

P.I. Nixon Hosts Japanese Dental Students

Briscoe Library/SAPL NPR Campus Community Book Club

The Winds and Words of War – Library Presentation

Pottery Bowl Exhibit: Art for the Mind

Featured New Books

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News from the Libraries Oct 2016

The October issue of News from the Libraries is now available. For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below.

Explore Human Anatomy in 3D with BodyVizbodyviz

3D Printing: Cultivating Creative Collaborations

Featured New Books/E-Books for October 2016

Upcoming 2016 Events for the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library

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News from the Libraries Sept 2016

The September issue of News from the Libraries is now available.  For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below.

BrowZine: A Modern Way of Accessing Scholarly JournalsDevices-Mobile-with-BrowZine-Web

Briscoe Library Removing Print Journals

Liaison Librarians Provide Services to Support Faculty and Student Success

Briscoe Library Staff Welcomes Karen Barton

Scavenger Hunt: Discover Hidden Treasures in the Briscoe Library!

2016 Danny Jones History of the Health Sciences Student Essay Competition

Featured New Books/E-Books for September 2016

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NLM Exhibition on AIDS on Display in Information Commons

Surviving and ThrivingThe Briscoe Library is hosting a traveling exhibition from the National Library of Medicine, called Surviving & Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture. The exhibit explores the history of the disease, beginning with it’s appearance in the United States in the early 1980s. Individual panels describe the reactions to the disease, the struggle of scientists and public health officials to understand the disease and determine how AIDS spread, advocacy and activism on behalf of those who were stricken, how the United States government finally reacted to the epidemic, and the challenges still posed by AIDS today.

The exhibition will be on display in the 3rd floor Information Commons until December 6, 2015. In conjunction with this exhibition, and in honor of AIDS Awareness Week, the library will host a presentation by Gregory Anstead, M.D., Ph.D. entitled, Suffering and Progress: A History of the HIV Epidemic in the United States on December 3, 2015 at 12 Noon in the Howe Conference Room on the 5th floor of the Briscoe Library.

 

Off Campus Access Restored

Our recent issues with off campus access should be resolved now.  Please contact the on call librarian if you experience any problems.

 

Off Campus Login Update

The UT Health Science Center librarians are preparing an update for Off Campus Login, the service that provides users with access to electronic resources via the library’s home page. This update will ensure that the service can take advantage of future security updates and allow the library to provide continued support and access for off campus users.

The update is scheduled to go live the morning of Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Service downtime is not anticipated for off campus users. However, with all updates of this nature, there is a slight risk that some users may experience temporary intermittent connectivity issues to library electronic resources. As always, UTHSCSA VPN is available as an alternative option for accessing the library’s electronic resources from off campus.

If you experience extended periods of interruption on or after this update, please don’t hesitate to contact library staff at askalibrarian@uthscsa.edu and we will be happy to assist you.

Proposed Journal Cancellations for 2016

On an annual basis, librarians review current journal subscriptions to assure that titles are continuing to be used and are meeting the needs of the Health Science Center community.  This annual review of journals allows the library to stay within budget while freeing some funds to add new titles requested by faculty and students.  Below is our tentative journal cancellation list for 2016.  The titles on this list have low usage (less than 100 uses during the year), no usage, or the publisher could not provide use statistics.  Because some publishers are not able to provide use statistics, librarians are particularly interested in feedback on titles that appear to have no use.

Librarians used 2014 cost/use as a baseline because it is the last full calendar year of usage statistics we could gather.

Cancellations are not made lightly; librarians look at many factors and also take into consideration comments from faculty, staff, and students.  If any of the titles suggested for cancellation are needed,  send your comments to John Weed, Head of Collection Resources, at weedj@uthscsa.edu.

For titles not owned by the library or that may be cancelled, interlibrary loan is available to obtain articles or books from lending libraries around the country.
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