Monthly Archives: February 2013

New website, new user-friendly features

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Your Library is pleased to announce the beta release of its new, improved website, with a new address:  http://library.utsouthwestern.edu. User-friendly features of the website include:

  • Drop-down navigation menu under the header allows users to find resources and Library services more efficiently.
  • New search section in the center allows users to find books, articles, or journal titles much quicker.  Users may also start a PubMed search to retrieve full-text articles, if available, through the or icons.
  • New search section also features searches in other Library websites (e.g., UT Southwestern Institutional Repository and UT Southwestern Archives Collection of digitized photos).
  • Your experience will be optimized regardless of the screen size you are using. We are using the latest web development technologies and techniques, including responsive web design approach. If you access the new website with a mobile device that has a screen size of 7 inches or less, you will be redirected automatically to the newly redesigned mobile website.

The new design is based on numerous usage statistics, usability studies, and client feedback gathered over the last 2-3 years. The selection and placement of content on the home page is determined by the resources and services our clients use the most.

We will be switching from the classic to the new website sometime in March 2013. Please visit your Library’s new website soon and let us know what you think.

Photos illustrate 70 years of campus history

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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the opening of Southwestern Medical College in 1943. To honor this milestone, we will be featuring photos illustrating the campus’ past. These photos are drawn from the 600+ images in the digital “UT Southwestern Images, 1943-Present” collection, available from the Library web page. The photo below dates from the late 1940s.

Southwestern Medical College, prefabricated plywood building with sign “Temporary Quarters”

The first campus of Southwestern Medical College was constructed in 1943 of prefabricated plywood buildings (often called “the shacks”) located along Oak Lawn Avenue behind Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue. The medical school campus soon expanded to other buildings in the neighborhood, but “the shacks” remained the primary campus until 1955, when the Cary Building on Harry Hines Blvd. was completed.

Graduate School students: online ETD submission!

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Students in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences are now able to submit electronic theses or dissertations (ETDs) online using Vireo. Everything students need for this is available at the Library’s Electronic Theses & Dissertations portal:

  • Dissertation preparation instructions
  • Thesis/dissertation template
  • Student guide to online ETD submission
  • Online submission system login

Vireo is an online ETD submission system developed by the Texas Digital Library (TDL). It is used by many institutions in Texas, including Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, and the University of Texas at Austin.

As the largest ETD contributor, the Graduate School was selected by the Library as the first of the three degree-granting schools at UT Southwestern to test and implement Vireo. The Medical School and the School of Health Professions will work with the Library to implement Vireo after the system receives an upgrade later this year.

Using Vireo, students can submit an ETD online, track the status of an ETD, and submit comments or corrections as needed through the system. For Graduate School and Library staff, information about each ETD is available within the system, making processing much quicker and more efficient.

Black History Month Poster Exhibit honors pioneers of medicine

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The Black History Month poster exhibit honors the many contributions of African Americans in science and in the field of medicine. Nine of the 18 posters are displayed on the Main Floor of the South Campus (main) Library; the remaining posters are on D1 across from the Food Court.

The exhibit is sponsored by the UT Southwestern Chapter of the Student National Medical Association in conjunction with the Office of Minority Student Affairs and the Office of Faculty Diversity and Development. It will remain throughout the month of February.