Here’s #HowToGetIntoHodges

You’ve seen our video tutorial on #HowToGetIntoHodges, right? We showed you how Vols have learned to use the pull and push method, the buddy system, the side kick, and total avoidance to get past the heavy doors of Hodges Library. The doors at the Melrose entrance are lovely. But after 30 years on the job, … Continued

Pendergrass Library temporarily closed for renovations

Pendergrass Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine Library reopened at 1p.m. on 8/21/18 and will close at 5p.m. Regular hours resume 8/22/18. Photos and updates to come. Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library was temporarily closed for renovations on May 9. Over the summer, library services will be available in the nearby Brehm Animal Science Building, Room … Continued

UT Libraries is “SGA Campus Partner of the Year”

The Student Government Association has named the UT Libraries their SGA Campus Partner of the Year for 2017-18. Librarian Rachel Caldwell accepted the award at SGA’s Transition Ceremony on April 26. The UT Libraries was recognized for collaborating with SGA to encourage the use of open educational resources (OER) in university courses. Open textbooks, one … Continued

UT Libraries Now Has a 3D Anatomy Table

The University of Tennessee Libraries has acquired a new teaching tool, a 3D anatomy table. The touch-screen Anatomage Table is an innovative approach to teaching anatomy. Digital cadavers allow students to visualize thousands of anatomical structures and to perform virtual 3D dissections exactly as they would on a real cadaver. The Anatomage Table is equipped … Continued

SGA Makes Awards to Faculty Who Use Open Resources

Left to right: Morgan Hartgrove, Student Body President; honorees Judy Day, Stan Guffey, Michael Berry, Vasilios Alexiades; Maddie Stephens, 2018-19 SGA Student Services Director. The Student Government Association (SGA) held an awards ceremony in Hodges Library on Monday to recognize UT instructors who use open educational resources in their courses. The winners of this year’s … Continued

SGA Open Education Award winners to be announced April 23

Open educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching and learning. Open textbooks can be read online for free. By adopting open textbooks in their courses, UT instructors have saved students hundreds of thousands of dollars this past year. Last year, the Student Government Association … Continued

Share Your Response to “Station Eleven”

The UT Libraries is collecting essays and other creative responses to Station Eleven, last fall’s Life of the Mind reading, for a book to be published by Newfound Press, the UT Libraries’ online imprint. The Libraries welcomes all submissions that can be represented in a printed publication — essays, poems, works of art, even humor. … Continued