Fines may be paid at the Second Floor Circulation Desk of Hodges Library or at the AgVetMed Library. You may pay fines and fees with credit card, debit card, VolCard, check, and money order. UT Libraries no longer accepts cash for fines or fees. UT Libraries does not have cash to make change. Regular Books, … Continued
• Screening and Awards October 21, 2009 6:30 pm UT Hodges Library Auditorium • All entries submitted to Sparky Awards national contest before December 6, 2009. Click here for more information and to register for the contest.
October 19-23 will mark the first international Open Access Week. Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. The now-annual event has been expanded from a single day … Continued
A pilot program to support UT faculty and graduate student use of open-access journals has been tapped by a dozen faculty in seven departments. To date six articles have been published in six peer-reviewed open-access journals, with five more manuscripts still in the peer review process. The Open Publishing Support Fund, sponsored by the UT … Continued
Author William Hensley will lecture in the Hodges Library Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13. The event is sponsored by NASA/AISES, the Libraries’ Diversity Committee and the English Department. The lecture is titled “Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: Alaska and the Real People.” Mr. Hensley is the author of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A … Continued
Hours for Fall Break Wednesday, 10/14 – Friday, 10/16 7:30 am – 6:00 pm
Scantron forms are available for .25 at any UT bookstore location. Presidential Court branch is the closest to AG-VET MED and is open 8-8 M-F as of fall 09. Phone 974-5392. I could not find a scantron form on the Web to download to save someone from having to go to the bookstore. Ann V.
Wanted: UT students and friends to attend the screening of the UT Libraries’ Sparky Short Video Contest. The screening will take place Wednesday, October 21, 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the Hodges Library auditorium. Please come out to support students at UT who created short videos to illustrate the value of information sharing. There will be a … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries announces the launch of Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange (trace.tennessee.edu), a digital repository which will expand access to the university’s intellectual capital and help preserve the creative work of its scholars and researchers. Open access services like Trace provide free online access to scholarly work and apply tags that … Continued
NAS Member Roger Beachy to Join Obama Administration By Maureen O’Leary September 29, 2009 – President Barack Obama recently announced that Roger N. Beachy, founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, has been appointed the first director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Beachy, elected to the NAS … Continued