Art, however, is not produced by fiat or prescription; it grows naturally out of the humus of man’s common psyche. It is for this reason that one may view the widespread return to the depiction of human form and of the human environment as a sign of a growing affirmation, adjustment, and self-confidence. –Alvin Gittins […]
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2025 in Brief In the last five years, faculty of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library have published 96 articles that have been cited 469 times. Shawn Steidinger was appointed Associate Director of Clinical, Research, and Education at the library. The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Board of Directors voted to include Donna […]
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Andries van Wesel, the second son of an apothecary in service to the Holy Roman Emperor was born in the Flemish city of Brussels the last day of December 1514. Posterity remembers him by his Latinized name, Andreas Vesalius, the author of the Renaissance masterpiece De humani corporis fabrica. The book, published the same year […]
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At the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, each school in the health sciences has representation, thanks to Digital Publishing. Items in the collections for the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, and the School of Medicine now feature refined metadata to improve findability, with outdated media formats updated to support long-term preservation. Additionally, […]
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The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library’s Digital Publishing Group offers a full range of digitization, archival, curation, and publishing services for the colleges, departments, and people of the University of Utah and the Health Sciences. Digital Publishing oversees numerous digital collections, education initiatives, open-access publications, and exhibitions, both physical and virtual, across all health […]
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A new digital exhibit, “Utah SOUL: A History of Black Students at the University of Utah,” highlights Black University students from the years 1930 to 1975, with Zelmar R Lawrence being the first. The exhibit details stories of individual students, such as Zelmar Lawrence and Grover Thompson, student organizations, and a growing roster of Black […]
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The Eccles Health Sciences Library and University of Utah Department of Pediatrics have partnered to archive the Medical Home Portal and launch a new journal, Topical Reviews in Pediatrics (TRiP) Initiated in 2001, the Medical Home Portal website aimed to improve the care of children with chronic conditions and special health care needs. Over the […]
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The Eccles Health Sciences Library’s Digital Publishing YouTube Channel has achieved an incredible milestone by earning the Silver Play Button Award, recognizing the channel for surpassing 100,000 subscribers. This accomplishment is largely attributed to the success of the Neuroanatomy Video Lab: Brain Dissections series presented by Suzanne Stensaas, PhD, and produced in conjunction with the […]
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Bryan Hull, Assistant Librarian and Head of Digital Publishing recommends: Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin I’ve been enjoying getting to know “The Boss” better through Peter Carlin’s Bruce. As a longtime Springsteen fan, I tended to think that I had a general idea of who Bruce as a person is. I really only had parts […]
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