Dr. Bruce Wheeler presents: Knoxville: A Mountain City in the New South Tennessee Reads 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 25 University of Tennessee University Club (Kingston Pike and Neyland Drive) Free and open to the public Is Knoxville more Appalachian than Southern? Did onetime mayor and grocery store owner Cas Walker single-handedly impede progress in Knoxville … Continued
Dr. Ian S. Anderson introduces the Spallation Neutron Source Hodges Library Auditorium Tuesday, April 25, 2 pm free and open to the public What do credit cards, pocket calculators, compact discs, shatterproof windshields and satellite weather information have in common? Each has been improved by neutron-scattering research. Why do scientists use neutron beams to study … Continued
Do you know? There is a Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne? They will be celebrating American Music Month [November] 2006 by observing the hundredth anniversary of Chautauqua celebrations in Illinois in 1906. See http://www.library.uiuc.edu/sousa/?p=special for more information.
April 27th – The Second Annual Free Range Video Contest “Perspectives” on the 1st floor of Hodges Library in the Auditorium, room 130 at 7:00 p.m. Refreshments after the awards ceremony in the Faculty Lounge on the 2nd floor. Click here for more information
Hodges Library staff will be hard at work this month moving microfilm collections in Periodicals room 220, Documents and Microforms room 120, and on the 6th floor. These collections are moving to prepare for an expansion of the Commons. More moving and some construction will be underway in Hodges this summer to prepare for the … Continued
Starting March 30th, 2006 there will be no fines charged for late books, monographs, serials or periodicals. The UT Libraries will no longer charge the 25 cent per day fine, however, if materials are 21 days overdue the Libraries will declare the material lost and the borrower will be billed for the replacement of the … Continued
The Good News: No More Fines for Many of Your Overdue Library Materials Regular overdue fines for books, monographs, serials, periodicals and some other items are now a thing of the past. After March 30, the UT Libraries will no longer charge the $.25-a-day fine for most materials that students, faculty and staff keep beyond … Continued
Chancellor will discuss Thomas Freidman’s best-selling book UT Chancellor Loren Crabtree will be at Hodges Library on Tuesday, April 18 to talk about The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman’s bestselling book on globalization. The discussion begins at 12:30 pm and will be held in the Culture Corner of the first floor galleria and is free … Continued
Loretta Parham of the Atlanta University Center to discuss diversity in libraries Tuesday, April 11 at 3 pm Room 605, Hodges Library Loretta Parham, Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Robert W. Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center, will present A Gift of Difference in the Academic Library at Hodges Library in room … Continued
University Library is named for former UT Professor A relief sculpture of English Professor John C. Hodges was recently installed at the Melrose entrance of Hodges Library. Dr. Hodges taught at UT for 41 years and wrote the Harbrace Handbook, the most widely used college textbook ever printed in America. Hodges Library is named in … Continued