Welcome to Texas A&M University-San Antonio! On this page, you'll find information about a few of our library services that you might need before the semester starts: your subject/liaison librarian's contact information, a form for booking library instruction, and information about requesting materials for fall semester. More in-depth information is available on the other pages of this guide as well as from your subject librarian.
We are looking forward to meeting you!
We have a subject liaison librarian/librarians assigned to each college. Your subject librarian is your direct connection to all things library related, both for your research and teaching needs. Your librarian will be reaching out to you once you’ve settled in here, but if you’d like to get in touch now, here’s our contact information:
Position Open (Please contact Deirdre McDonald, Head of Research Services for more information).
(Department of Science & Mathematics, Department of Language, Literature, and Arts: Spanish, Department of Communication, History, and Philosophy: Communication)
Emily Bliss-Zaks, Arts & Sciences Librarian
(Department of Social Sciences, Department of Language, Literature, and Arts: Art, Music, English, Department of Communication, History, and Philosophy: History, Philosophy)
Kimberly Grotewold, Education Librarian
(College of Education and Human Development)
Rachel Pecotte, Business Librarian
(College of Business)
Do you want to see a particular book, journal, DVD, or other item added to the library? Is there a specific topic you would like the library to get more resources for? Faculty can make requests for additions to the University Library! Send an email to your subject librarian and indicate what titles or types of materials you would like to see purchased.
GobiAlerts are a quick and easy way to get up-to-date new book titles in your field of study. These monthly alerts come to your university email address and allow you to make library purchase recommendations directly in YBP (the library's primary book ordering system). To start receiving these alerts, please fill out the form linked below. Your subject librarian will set up the alerts for you and you will begin receiving these within the next month.
Research Guides are webpages that help direct students to the best resources for their projects. We have currently have guides for many subjects and the subject librarians have linked some of these guides to courses in Blackboard. The link is located under ‘Campus Resources’ in the navigation panel in each Blackboard course. We encourage you to promote the Research Guide link in Blackboard to your students as well as even include the links to the guides in your syllabi.
If you do not see a guide that meets the needs of your course, please let your subject librarian know. We can create guides for individual courses or special assignments on request.
If you want your students to have a quick refresher on citations, the research process, or learn to think more critically about information sources, the videos and activities on our Self Service Library Instruction guide will help. All of these tools can be used without the need to ask a librarian to attend your class. Simply copy and paste the links to the videos and tutorials you want students to use, or refer to the embed codes to get the script to embed the full video or tutorial into your blackboard course. You can also assign students selections from our Academic Tools for the Research Process online tutorial page. These tutorials include short quizzes and email confirmation of completion.
Our current selection of videos and tutorials are created by Credo, the company that also provides one of our most important general reference databases. We can also create tutorials here at A&M-SA based on faculty demand. If you have suggestions for tutorials, please fill out this online form and let us know.
If you have a course where you want your students to interact with a librarian throughout the semester, consider having an embedded librarian in Blackboard. In this role, the librarian acts as a teaching assistant or co-teacher. This program is most successful with hybrid and fully online classes. Depending on the course design, the librarian may have a very limited presence, for example, running an ongoing discussion thread on research techniques, or may be involved in creating more focused activities, regular discussions, live chats, and on-line instruction through video conferencing