SAGE Publishing creates many research tools tailored to the needs of university students and faculty. SAGE Research Methods databases include resources that can help graduate students design their research, including sample case studies that reveal how research methods are chosen and practice datasets to help investigators hone their data analysis skills. Research Methods databases are … Continued
Learn to use the Libraries’ incredible new suite of digital products. Gale Researcher helps students identify and link to relevant, authoritative sources. Digital Humanities Sandbox facilitates data mining and textual analytics. Gale Cengage Learning will offer a full day of free training sessions on Tuesday, September 27. The training should be of interest to everyone … Continued
Library Express offers Campus Delivery for UTK faculty, graduate students and staff with departmental offices. ***Before requesting delivery of library materials, you must first update your “patron record” to specify the location of your departmental office.*** Download a PDF of this research hint here. [clear] Begin by signing in, using the Off-campus users: Sign in … Continued
Pendergrass Library is closing May 8 due to construction. Pendergrass services will be available in Brehm Animal Science Room 243 (Computer Lab), as well as virtually through chat and email from May 11 to the end of construction. View our maps of how to get to Brehm and where to find the computer lab. What … Continued
The UT Libraries will soon launch a new homepage. The new page will go live immediately following spring semester. In the meantime, users can test-drive our leaner, cleaner homepage at lib.utk.edu/testing. Our new homepage has fewer distracting graphics. A slimmer OneSearch box and the smaller footprint of the page reduce the need for vertical scrolling. … Continued
Want to get control of your citations? Try a citation management tool like EndNote or Zotero. Both programs allow you to organize, format and insert your references into a paper. EndNote is free to UT students, faculty, and staff through a UT site license. It is available in both a desktop and a more user-friendly … Continued
UT’s libraries offer more services than you think. Here are the top ten things you should know about the libraries: 1. Ask Us Now. By chat, text, phone, email, walk-in, or by appointment — from finding an article to the most abstruse research problem — librarians are here to help. Check out all your options … Continued
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries has created an online digital collection of photos and home movies of the Smokies taken in the 1940s,’50s, and ’60s by a Townsend businessman. Folksongs performed by local musicians have been added to the originally silent film clips. Watch and listen: Views of Gatlinburg in 1941. [Music recorded by … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries has partnered with the Tennessee State Library and Archives and the Tenn-Share statewide library consortium to become a service hub for the Digital Public Library of America. Tennessee’s service hub was one of four successful applicants added to the DPLA network in February 2015. For most of American history, the … Continued
From the 1940s through the 1960s, William Derris, owner of the Derris Motel in Townsend, traveled by automobile around the accessible parts of the Smokies recording the people and scenery in both slides and silent film. He used the images and films to entertain and inform the guests at his hotel. His collection was donated … Continued