Library News

November 3, 2025

Libby, the free app widely used by public libraries to allow their users to access ebooks and digital audiobooks, is coming to the UT Libraries.  By downloading the Libby app, UT library users will be able to stream titles to a mobile device or download titles to read offline. UT’s Libby colle...

October 28, 2025

VolBooks’ Total Access program offers undergraduates one flat fee per term for all required course materials. Students can easily access digital course materials by logging into their Canvas accounts. Course materials that are freely available through UT Libraries as electronic books with unlimited user licenses are also accessible through the Canvas portal. ...

October 22, 2025

Engineering professors Xueping Li and Bing Yao will speak about using artificial intelligence (AI) to expedite treatment plans for breast cancer patients. Their presentation, noon to 1pm, November 19, via Zoom, is part of a forum for graduate and faculty researchers. Register here. The present...

October 10, 2025

All students, faculty, and staff are invited to join us for events celebrating the open access of information and research during the week of October 20–24. Monday, October 20   “Understanding the New NIH Public Access Policy” with Olivia Chin 1–2 PM EST on Zoom (register here) T...

October 7, 2025

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." That opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice is engraved in the memories of Jane Austen fans. An exhibit celebrating Jane Austen on the semiquincentennial of her birth is now on view in the Special Collections reading room on the first floor of Hodges...

October 3, 2025

The University of Tennessee Press has released Howdy! The Minnie Pearl Story by Mary Ellen Pethel and Don Cusic. The title is available in hardcover and ebook formats. The performer known as Minnie Pearl was born Sarah Ophelia Colley in 1912 and grew up in Centerville, Tennessee. During the Great D...

September 22, 2025

The University of Tennessee Press has released William Macy Stanton: Architect of the Cumberland by Delos D. Hughes. The title is available in hardcover and ebook formats. When President Roosevelt launched the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Subsistence Homestead Division in 1933, the feder...

September 17, 2025

Each year, the Red and Theresa Howse and Jim and Betty Papageorge Library Scholarship provides tuition assistance to a student library worker. Elizabeth Nix, a student library assistant in Community Learning and Engagement, is this year’s scholarship winner.  Elizabeth Nix In her work with...

September 16, 2025

The University of Tennessee Libraries has added two new associate deans to its senior leadership team. On October 1, Jen Bartlett will join UT Libraries as Associate Dean for Engagement, Learning, and Public Services, and Jennie Mezick will become Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and Assessment. Both associate deans will provide strategic and innovative direction, repre...

September 11, 2025

Renowned 20th-century modernist painter Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the subject of a new exhibition at Hodges Library. Beauford Delaney: Light Beyond the Canvas is on view in the exhibit area on the first floor, just outside Special Collections. Materials will be on display through May of 2026. In 2022, UT Libraries acquired the complete pe...

September 9, 2025

The University of Tennessee Press has released a second edition of A Natural History Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Donald W. Linzey. The guide is now available in paperback and ebook formats. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in th...

August 12, 2025

The University of Tennessee Press has published From Out of the Smokies: Stories of Fly Fishing and Life by Charlie Tombras. Released on August 12, it is now available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats.  The author, Charles Tombras Jr., passed away on July 2, 2025. UT Press is honored...

August 7, 2025

UT Learn@Research LibForum, a collaboration between UT Libraries and the Graduate School’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, is seeking presenters for the fall semester forum. Presented by and for researchers, the mission of the forum is to cultivate a strong research community across the University of Tennessee via presentations and colleague interactions. The forum is currently ...