404 Day is a nation-wide day of action to call attention to the long-standing problem of Internet censorship in public libraries and public schools. Learn more from this posting from Insider Higher Ed or join the National Coalition Against Censorship at 3 PM EST for a 404 Day online teach-in about what sites get blocked and how … Continued
We at the UT Libraries pride ourselves on being innovators. But, as it says in Proverbs, pride goeth before a fall . . . or, in this instance, before a face full of claws. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I mean, cats are all over the Internet, playing pianos, doing everything … Continued
BIG IDEAS demand reliable information. The University Libraries supports scholarship, research, and learning at UT by acquiring, organizing, preserving, and facilitating access to the world’s knowledge. The wide-ranging expertise of our librarians might surprise you. This semester we begin a series of profiles of UT Knoxville librarians. Watch for a new profile each week. As … Continued
BIG IDEAS demand reliable information. The University Libraries supports scholarship, research, and learning at UT by acquiring, organizing, preserving, and facilitating access to the world’s knowledge. The wide-ranging expertise of our librarians might surprise you. This semester we begin a series of profiles of UT Knoxville librarians. Watch for a new profile each week. As … Continued
According to the painter Salvador Dalí, Surrealism sought to help us break free from the “shackles limiting our vision.” The spirit of this movement will be alive and well on the campus of the University of Tennessee this spring, through a Surrealist Symposium featuring world-class authors, scholars, translators, and poets, April 4–7. The key day … Continued
Patrick O’Keeffe will read from his new novel at UT’s Writers in the Library on Monday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in the John C. Hodges Library Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public. The Visitors, O’Keeffe’s lyrical first novel, set in America and Ireland, moves back and forth in time and … Continued
BIG IDEAS demand reliable information. The University Libraries supports scholarship, research, and learning at UT by acquiring, organizing, preserving, and facilitating access to the world’s knowledge. The wide-ranging expertise of our librarians might surprise you. This semester we begin a series of profiles of UT Knoxville librarians. Watch for a new profile each week. As … Continued
What is Zotero? It’s easy to use, lives in your web browser where you do your work, and best of all it’s free and open source. Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies. It can save you time and help keep … Continued
BIG IDEAS demand reliable information. The University Libraries supports scholarship, research, and learning at UT by acquiring, organizing, preserving, and facilitating access to the world’s knowledge. The wide-ranging expertise of our librarians might surprise you. This semester we begin a series of profiles of UT Knoxville librarians. Watch for a new profile each week. As … Continued
The UT Graduate Student Senate will host a scavenger hunt, dubbed “The Big Orange Adventure,” to benefit the UT Libraries. The race will take place Saturday, April 5, 2014, on the UT campus. Check-in is at 9 a.m. at the outdoor amphitheater between Hodges Library and the Humanities Building, and the hunt begins promptly at … Continued