Funds will help preserve history of education and arts literacy in the Smokies In 1910, the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women worked to open the first school to serve the families in and around Gatlinburg. Thanks to a nearly quarter-million dollar grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Science (IMLS), this important story … Continued
Budding Filmmakers can win great prizes Reduce, reuse and show off your artistic skills by participating in the University Library Studio’s Recycled Video Contest and Festival. Contestants will use footage from public domain films to create their own movies. “This is essentially an editing contest,” Troy Davis, Media Services Librarian, said. Contestants can choose footage … Continued
The Writers in the Library series continues November 8 at 7 p.m. in the Hodges Library Auditorium with featured authors from Migrants and Stowaways, the new anthology from the Knoxville Writers Guild. From bicycle trips through Europe to breaking the law in Kentucky to emotional rights of passage, the collection includes poetry, stories, essays, memoirs, … Continued
Africa in Latin America: An Enduring Legacy The next and last film in this fall’s Documentaries in the Library program will be screened November 17 at 7:00PM in the Lindsay Young Auditorium. We will be screening “Si Me Comprendieras (If You Only Understood),” an independent Cuban documentary directed by Rolando Diaz. For more information, click … Continued
he Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, will speak on the UT campus at noon on Friday, November 5, in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library. The event is free and open to the public. The Library of Congress announced Kooser’s appointment in August. Notable poets who have also served as Poet … Continued