Pendergrass Library is pleased to announce a new leisure reading collection. It is located on the green wall near Study Room E and the quiet zone entrance. The collection will consist of recently published fiction and nonfiction. All books may be borrowed for four weeks by any UT student, staff, or faculty member. We will … Continued
There’s nothing like the serendipity of browsing the stacks and discovering that one book that is the perfect reference on your topic. Well, actually, there is. Now there’s virtual browsing in the Libraries’ online catalog. If the search box on the Libraries’ homepage leads you to a promising title, you can browse adjacent titles in … Continued
Citing references in your research paper? The easiest way to format a citation in the prescribed style may be to grab the citation from the Libraries’ catalog. If UT owns the item and there’s a record in the catalog, you can access a formatted citation from the brief record display (results from using the search … Continued
The UT Libraries has an app for you: BrowZine lets you browse and read journals in a format that is optimized for tablet devices. The BrowZine app is available for the iPad and Android devices. To get started, just search for “BrowZine” in the app store on your device. Simply register your NetID and password, … Continued
The Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library is seeking a student library assistants (SLAs) for the 2014-2015 academic year. We are looking for students dedicated to providing good public service, a strong work ethic, and working in a collaborative environment with patrons and library staff. Please visit lib.utk.edu/employment for more detailed position descriptions and application … Continued
Pendergrass Library has just added some additional equipment to our collection. We now have 2 TI-84 Plus graphing calculators, which check out for 2 hours. We have also added 5 more sets of headphones, and these check out for 24 hours. All equipment accrues a $0.25/hour fine if returned late. If you need either of … Continued
The culmination of fifteen years of research, Terra Incognita: An Annotated Bibliography of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1544-1934 is the most comprehensive bibliography of sources related to the Great Smoky Mountains ever created. The book is now available for purchase from the University of Tennessee Press. Terra Incognita catalogs printed material on the Great Smoky … Continued
What is Zotero? It’s easy to use, lives in your web browser where you do your work, and best of all it’s free and open source. Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies. It can save you time and help keep … Continued
The UT Graduate Student Senate will host a scavenger hunt, dubbed “The Big Orange Adventure,” to benefit the UT Libraries. The race will take place Saturday, April 5, 2014, on the UT campus. Check-in is at 9 a.m. at the outdoor amphitheater between Hodges Library and the Humanities Building, and the hunt begins promptly at … Continued
Come have lunch with the library and let us know: • how you find out about library resources and services • what methods of communication you prefer • how you hear about things happening on campus Have time to visit with us March 25th or 28th? Please RSVP to rmays@utk.edu.