UT Libraries Employee Wins 2008 Tennessee Resource Sharing Award

The following article ran on Tenn-Share’s website (www.tenn-share.org/resources/award) and featured the University of Tennessee Libraries’ own Tracy Luna, the winner of this year’s Resource Sharing Award: Tracy Luna, Lending Supervisor at the University of Tennessee Libraries in Knoxville, is the recipient of the 2008 Tennessee Resource Sharing Award. A “veteran” of UT’s interlibrary loan department, … Continued

Open Publishing Support Fund Established

The University Libraries and Office of Research have launched a pilot program, Open Publishing Support Fund for faculty and graduate students to request funding for “article processing charges” that support open access publishers such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and BioMedCentral. Program web pages at http://www.lib.utk.edu/openpub/ include the program announcement and description, an … Continued

UT Alumnus Phillip Moffitt to Give Book Talk at Hodges Library

Once upon a time, University of Tennessee alum Phillip Moffitt taught American men the secrets of style and sophistication. As the chief executive and editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine in the 1980s, Moffitt lived and thrived in the glamorous world of big-name magazine publishing, crafting a career of great success and distinction. Today, Phillip Moffitt uses … Continued

Students, Test Your Smarts to Win Free Gadgets!

University of Tennessee, Knoxville students can now enter a contest to win free gadgets. Students may enter the Knovel University Challenge by using the UT Libraries’ subscription to Knovel, a database of chemistry and chemical engineering textbooks, and following the instructions to play. By answering three questions correctly, students are entered into a drawing for … Continued

Many Microfilm Materials Moving to Storage

John C. Hodges Library is relocating approximately 38,000 microfilm reels to the Storage unit at Hoskins Library. Only Tennessee newspapers and serials on microfilm will remain in Hodges Library. Just as with UT Libraries’ other storage collections, anyone needing reels may use the Storage Request Service at no charge. University of Tennessee students, faculty, and … Continued

Call for Student Art Submissions

The University of Tennessee Libraries is now accepting submissions for the next Student Art in the Library Juried Exhibition. The exhibition is open to all under undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Artworks selected this fall will be installed in December and will remain on view through the spring. … Continued

UT Employee Gives Tiny Gift

For years, it’s been tucked away inside a jeweled pillbox in her desk drawer and taken out only when nostalgia hits. But Tina Bentrup of UT Libraries’ Interlibrary Services department has decided to share her unusual and diminutive treasure with the rest of us. Bentrup recently donated a miniature book to the Special Collections Library, … Continued

University Libraries Unveils Online Yearbook Collection

Indulge in fond memories, scan the names of the graduating classes, and laugh at the hairstyles… University of Tennessee alumni, students, and the general public can now access a wealth of UT history as the University Libraries’ Digital Library Initiatives unveils an openly-accessible online collection of Volunteer Yearbooks. The collection spans from the 1897 inception … Continued

University of Tennessee Libraries Digital Press Releases New Title

Newfound Press, digital imprint of the University of Tennessee Libraries, published a new monograph, To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Judson MacLaury on Labor Day 2008. Newfound Press, an open access publisher, hosts titles at www.newfoundpress.utk.edu. Judson MacLaury, a … Continued

Graduate/Faculty Study Rooms Now Available

Looking for a quiet, comfortable place to write your thesis or to grade papers? Hodges Library has reserved two enclosed study rooms just for graduate students and faculty. Rooms 541 and 542 on the fifth floor of the library are now designated for graduate students and faculty to use for quiet study. Each room will … Continued