The arts can play a role in helping communities heal from trauma. Since 2019, the University of Tennessee Libraries, the City of Gatlinburg, and the Anna Porter Public Library have been working to promote healing from the catastrophic Chimney Tops 2 wildfires that swept through the Great Smoky Mountains in November of 2016, killing fourteen … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries has adopted a set of principles for providing access to research and scholarship. We invite you to review the “UT Libraries Philosophy of Access to Research, Scholarship, and Cultural Heritage.” Over the past two years, library faculty and staff have been engaged in an in-depth examination of our core values … Continued
Each year, the Student Government Association (SGA) and the UT Libraries Open Education Working Group recognize and celebrate UT instructors who lower or eliminate the cost of textbooks through the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and other zero-cost materials. SGA recently announced faculty recipients of the 2022 Open Education Awards: Biology Senior Lecturer Stephanie … Continued
“Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways.”* Many students you will encounter on the university campus are dealing with the added challenges of autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, or mental health issues. And university staff are committed to removing barriers to their success. Join … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries was awarded a $49,200 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources* to digitize fragile audiovisual recordings related to the US Congress of the 1950s and ’60s, including film and audio from investigations, interviews, and campaigns of US Senator Estes Kefauver, and recordings of the 1953–1954 Army–McCarthy hearings. The … Continued
UT Libraries has partnered with The Wall Street Journal to provide sponsored memberships to all University of Tennessee Knoxville students, faculty, and staff. “The Libraries provides access to the WSJ through a number of academic databases,” says Collection Strategist and assistant professor Jennie Mezick. “This access differs because it enables students, faculty, and staff to … Continued
After an illuminating second season of For Your Reference, our final episode will take place Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m. (EDT). This concluding discussion will feature guests Stevie Munz and Justin Rudnick and will center on issues of publishing identity-based work that utilizes experimental ways of understanding and representing. For Your Reference is dedicated to … Continued
For generations, we’ve all been told that the Great Smoky Mountains are among the oldest mountains in the world. But research by UT Knoxville geologist Robert D. Hatcher Jr., published in a new book by John E. Ross, Through the Mountains: The French Broad River and Time, reports that the mountains we see today are only 5 … Continued
What does history teaching, history telling, and academic mentorship need to do right now, in our current moment? Join us on March 17 as we welcome Dr. Stacey Patton in discussion of these topics and more amid growing debates around Critical Race Theory, the whitewashing of US history, and archival research. With a specific focus … Continued
The UT Libraries’ Diversity Committee invites you to lunch with the Harlem Quartet. This very special, in-person reception with members of the renowned string quartet will be held 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22, in room 270 of the Student Union. RSVP here to attend the luncheon. Lunch will be provided for … Continued