Our doors will close for Winter Break starting Friday, December 20th, at 4:30 p.m. We will reopen bright and early on Thursday, January 2nd, at 8 a.m. During this time, desk services and badge access to the building will be unavailable. Please note that January 2nd and 3rd will be Badge Access Only. We wish you a safe, joyful, and magical holiday season! Thank you for being part of our year—see you in 2025!
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The UNM College of Nursing recently transferred over ninety digitized class composites to HSLIC Special Collections. These images date from 1959 (when the first class graduated) to Summer 2024 and help document the history of the College of Nursing, which started in 1955. The images are currently being added to New Mexico Digital Collections and will be available to view online in the near future. Here are some examples of class photos over the years.
One of the richest resources in Special Collections about the history of health and health care is the oral history collection. The program began in 1982 as part of an effort to document New Mexico health history due to the New Mexico Medical Society’s 100th anniversary in 1986.
The collection contains almost 170 interviews with New Mexican providers and health administrators. Unrestricted oral history transcripts are available to view here. Topics covered in the interviews include nursing, rural health care, midwifery, tuberculosis treatment, rural health care, and the history of the UNM School of Medicine.
The complete list of oral histories is available here.
HSLIC's 2nd (Main) floor renovation continues, with plans to be completed in February 2025. The construction team are finishing up with new and improved network access, texturing and painting walls, and removing extraneous wiring in the ceilings. The photos below show the new "molecule" lighting fixtures and some of the ceiling grid. Once the electrical work is completed and inspected, the remaining ceiling grid will be installed. We are grateful to everyone for their patience as we work through this major construction project; we cannot wait to open the new space and welcome you all. We promise it will be worth the wait!
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