Left to right: Morgan Hartgrove, Student Body President; honorees Judy Day, Stan Guffey, Michael Berry, Vasilios Alexiades; Maddie Stephens, 2018-19 SGA Student Services Director. The Student Government Association (SGA) held an awards ceremony in Hodges Library on Monday to recognize UT instructors who use open educational resources in their courses. The winners of this year’s … Continued
Open educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching and learning. Open textbooks can be read online for free. By adopting open textbooks in their courses, UT instructors have saved students hundreds of thousands of dollars this past year. Last year, the Student Government Association … Continued
The UT Libraries is collecting essays and other creative responses to Station Eleven, last fall’s Life of the Mind reading, for a book to be published by Newfound Press, the UT Libraries’ online imprint. The Libraries welcomes all submissions that can be represented in a printed publication — essays, poems, works of art, even humor. … Continued
Want to see your work in print? The UT Libraries invites FYS 100 students to submit the assignments they created last fall in response to Emily St. John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven. The UT Libraries is collecting essays and other creative responses to Station Eleven for a book to be published this coming fall … Continued
High school, middle school, and early college students can explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Big Orange STEM Saturday (BOSS), April 7, on the University of Tennessee campus. Students — and their parents — are invited to attend the mini-conference from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the John C. Hodges Library, … Continued
The singer/songwriter duo Count This Penny were the first artists to partner with the UT Libraries to create works of art to celebrate our unique collections. Amanda and Allen Rigell (aka Count This Penny) composed two songs inspired by materials in the Wilma Dykeman and James R. Stokely Jr. Papers, which are preserved by and … Continued
PowerNotes is a great way to gather, organize, and keep track of your online research. The UT Libraries has purchased a trial subscription that gives members of the UT Knoxville community free access to PowerNotes. To get started, visit powernotes.com and download/install the PowerNotes extension into your Chrome browser. Create a free account using your … Continued
On Saturday, February 17, library users will be required to swipe a UT ID card for admittance to Hodges Library. Entrance/exit will be restricted to the Melrose Avenue (2nd floor) entrance. Hodges Library will be open on the regular schedule, 10 a.m. to midnight.
This year, Knoxville’s Big Read and UT’s Life of the Mind freshman reading program prompted hundreds of Knoxvillians to read and discuss Station Eleven, a novel by Emily St. John Mandel. An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries has published a collection of essays by participants in Knoxville’s Big Read of A Lesson Before Dying. In 2016, a community reading program brought Knoxvillians together to read and discuss A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines’s novel about a black man who is sentenced to death for a murder … Continued