Congratulations to our Library of the Month, UNT Health Science Center!

Each month we select a Library of the Month to honor libraries who have been using our library technologies in interesting and innovative ways, from creating well-curated reading lists with Talis Aspire to encouraging uptake of the Lean Library browser extension amongst their students. We’re also appreciating the intensive work of librarians in curating these technologies and improving learning outcomes for their students.

The winning library will be awarded a prize to share amongst their team or a donation to a charity of their choice as a way for us to say thank you.

This month’s winner is: UNT Health Science Center

UNT Health Science Center (UNTHSC) at Fort Worth is an academic medical center specializing in patient-centered education, research and health care. The Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library supports the education, research, patient care, and community service missions at UNTHSC by meeting the information needs of students, faculty, staff, and the local health sciences community. The library provides expert instruction in the use of information resources, and access to professionally trained librarians for research and patient care related literature search assistance.

We’ve awarded them our Library of the Month Award for February, as UNTHSC are committed to improving student and researcher outcomes and ensuring that they have direct access to course materials. UNTHSC are fantastic advocates of Talis Aspire and have seen positive results from using course resource management software, including savings of over $125k annually for one class alone.

We asked Elizabeth Speer, Associate Director of Digital Scholarship, Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library at UNTHSC to tell us more about the university library and what winning Library of the Month meant to them:

“One of the goals of the library has been to partner with other campus departments to broaden our reach as it pertains to the use of library materials in the classroom. Having the right tools at our disposal meant that not only could we provide access to our materials in a manner that complied with our subscriptions but also allowed us the opportunity to educate our faculty on copyright and their rights as authors. But, best of all we were able to save our students hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs and further supported student success by providing direct access to library resources at the point of instruction by working with our instructional designers and faculty in the selection of educational materials.

Being Technology from Sage’s Library of the Month recognizes our work in connecting and educating our faculty in copyright, fair use, and relevant library resources while supporting the financial and educational needs of our students. We are grateful for our partnership with Technology from Sage that has enabled us to improve our services and increase student engagement and cost saving across campus.”