We look forward to seeing you at the “Rocky Top” Exhibit Opening at Hodges Library this Friday evening. Parking will be available in Staff Lot 12 in front of Hodges Library. However, the Homecoming Parade will block some routes! To access Staff Parking Lot 12 in front of Hodges Library: Turn right (south) onto Volunteer … Continued
Dr. Thomas Dailey in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries is editor of the National Quail Symposium Proceedings (NQSP) and has had a role with the publication since 1993. He and his fellow editors noticed that the proceedings, published as books, were not getting high citation counts. Dailey asked the University Libraries how to … Continued
John C. Hodges THE HARVARD SCHOLAR WHOSE GRAMMAR BOOK BUILT THE LIBRARY Back in the 1920s a college professor devised a system for marking essays to help his students identify their grammatical mistakes. Seventy-six years after he first published his scheme in a handbook for English instructors, his text is still an academic and commercial … Continued
Join us at Hodges Library for free screenings of independent and foreign films. Feature films will be screened at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium on the first Wednesday of each month, throughout the fall and spring semesters. Showing Wednesday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m.— Apprentice The integrity and ethics of a young Malay … Continued
On Monday, November 13, poet and editor Kaveh Akbar will read as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Kaveh Akbar’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, APR, Ploughshares, PBS NewsHour, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, was released by Alice James Books in September 2017; … Continued
The Office of the Provost, Student Government Association, and University Libraries set an ambitious goal for AY 2017-18: Save students $1 Million by increasing adoptions of open textbooks. Today, we’re announcing an additional $127,100 savings for students! Added to the $552,200 reported two weeks ago, Vols are now saving a total of $679,300 thanks to … Continued
Our 30th anniversary celebration of the John C. Hodges Library was a great success! Students thronged to our Street Fair in the Commons yesterday afternoon. The Libraries, the Office of Information Technology, and other Commons partners hosted booths at which they posed trivia questions in exchange for tickets to a prize drawing. Trivia quizzes harked … Continued
As part of UT’s week-long Homecoming festivities, you are invited to the grand opening of the “Rocky Top” Exhibit at Hodges Library. The exhibit will feature the original handwritten manuscript written by songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant in 1967 at the Gatlinburg Inn. Special guests for the evening will be Del and Dane Bryant, sons … Continued
Students are concerned about the rising costs of textbooks. Open textbooks can remedy some of the impact on student budgets. Open textbooks are openly-licensed works that are freely available to everyone. UT faculty are beginning to adopt open textbooks in their courses, and the Student Government Association, with the help of the Office of the … Continued
On Monday, October 23, Stanley Plumly will read at the University of Tennessee as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Stanley Plumly’s Old Heart (W. W. Norton, 2007) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W. W. Norton, 2008) was … Continued