Breaks: May 6 th – 31 st  AND August 7 th – 18 th Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Saturday and Sunday Closed Summer Semester:  June 1 st – August 6 th Monday –  Friday 8:00 am – 8:00 pm Saturday and Sunday Closed

UT’s Electronics Recycling Event starts tomorrow.  Here are some tips for recycling your computer.

Kenneth Crews, Columbia University Monday, May 11, 12:00 pm This talk is co-sponsored by the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Harvard Law School Library, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. See the  webcast or listen to an MP3

UT Agricultural Campus from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 14-16, 2009 Sponsored by the University of Tennessee Computer Store  and UT Knoxville Make Orange Green program Schools, government agencies, businesses and non-profit organizations may drop off their old, unwanted electronics on Thursday, May 14 and Friday, May 15. The general public is encouraged … Continued

FEMA uses social networking to post updates on emergency situations. http://nnlm.gov/sea/newsletter/?p=1073

On May 12th 2009 UT Libraries staff participates in their annual Library Appreciation Breakfast. The Libraries will open at 10 am, following the breakfast festivities.

Peter Suber blogs on an open access portal for H1N1 research. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/05/oa-to-h1n1-flu-info.html

Global tracking of communicable diseases in cooperation with Google Earth. http://healthmap.org/en

Medline prepared a swine flu widget for live updates. Go to this link to grab the widget:http://www.hhs.gov/web/library/index.html#HHSWidgets

UT’s Special Collections will close for several months and reopen in a new location within the John C. Hodges Library (1015 Volunteer Blvd.). Services and collections will be unavailable from May 6 through August 2. During the move, manuscript collections, rare books, and the university’s archives all will be inaccessible. The new Reading Room is … Continued