University of Tennessee, Knoxville students can now enter a contest to win free gadgets. Students may enter the Knovel University Challenge by using the UT Libraries’ subscription to Knovel, a database of chemistry and chemical engineering textbooks, and following the instructions to play. By answering three questions correctly, students are entered into a drawing for … Continued
Don’t miss an exciting and rare event as four talented local writers close out the Writers in the Library season with a special reading event. University of Tennessee Creative Writing professor and poet Marilyn Kallet, professor and head of the Creative Writing Program and fiction writer Michael Knight, Creative Writing professor and poet Arthur Smith, … Continued
MacLaury, author of the recently published Newfound Press title, To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, will speak at an e-Forum on scholarly publishing, Wednesday, October 15, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 605 Hodges Library. Light refreshments will be served. … Continued
Award-winning novelist and short story writer Peter Ho Davies will read at the next Writers in the Library event on Monday, October 20, at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium at Hodges Library. Davies’ first novel, The Welsh Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), was named a 2008 British Book Awards Richard & Judy Best Read … Continued
Through the month of October Pendergrass will feature photographs from the Growing Tennessee: Rural Youth Cultivate Common Ground collaboration through arts project. This project provides a creative outlet to youth while promoting a cross cultural understanding through the arts. The display is sponsored by Pendergrass Library and the UT Libraries Diversity Committee. Photographs from the … Continued
The University of Tennessee Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People is pleased to offer two special events highlighting the unique history and challenges of sexual minorities in the United States. On Thursday, October 16, at 1 p.m. in the Mary Greer Room on the 2nd floor of Hodges Library the commission will present … Continued
John C. Hodges Library is relocating approximately 38,000 microfilm reels to the Storage unit at Hoskins Library. Only Tennessee newspapers and serials on microfilm will remain in Hodges Library. Just as with UT Libraries’ other storage collections, anyone needing reels may use the Storage Request Service at no charge. University of Tennessee students, faculty, and … Continued
Here’s a YouTube tale with a happy ending: Filipino singer Arnel Pineda (pronounced “pin-eh-da”) posted footage of himself performing Journey covers with his band the Zoo and was discovered half a world away by Journey guitarist Neal Schon, who was trolling the site for new blood. http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/12/05/journey-finds-new-singer-the-old-fashioned-way-on-the-internet/
By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hip Hop group Run-DMC, heavy metal band Metallica and musician/songwriter Bobby Womack are among nine nominees announced on Monday vying for five spots in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Guitarist Jeff Beck, disco and R&B band Chic, rock and roll singer Wanda Jackson, doo-wop group Little … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries is now accepting submissions for the next Student Art in the Library Juried Exhibition. The exhibition is open to all under undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Artworks selected this fall will be installed in December and will remain on view through the spring. … Continued