Student winners of the University of Tennessee’s graduate-level writing awards will read from their winning works on Monday, April 23. The event is part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Readings begin at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library. The public is invited to join the … Continued
Open educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching and learning. Open textbooks can be read online for free. By adopting open textbooks in their courses, UT instructors have saved students hundreds of thousands of dollars this past year. Last year, the Student Government Association … Continued
The library currently has a trial for Mango Languages, an interactive learning tool that covers many languages and dialects for students, staff, and faculty to learn at their leisure. From Arabic to Yiddish, learners will be taken through the basics of conversation in the given language for a quick and simple way to learn. The … Continued
Writing papers got you down? Not sure how or where to start your research? Join us for a “Writing Blitz” in Hodges Library on Thursday, April 19, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., in Room 213. Work surrounded by others with the same goal in mind: FINISH THOSE PAPERS! From pencils to laptops to citation … Continued
“Open Access Publishing & Avoiding Predatory Journal Publishers” (A Zoom webinar with Rachel Caldwell, UT’s Scholarly Communication and Publishing Librarian) April 12th, 2:30-3:30 p.m. EDT Register: https://goo.gl/forms/HDo4K56tX7HlHlQi2 Whether you’re looking for journals in your field, receive a solicitation to submit work from a publisher, or are wondering which Open Access journals are trustworthy, this workshop … Continued
Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week is April 2-6, 2018. UT organizations and units across campus have teamed up with the Graduate Student Senate and the Graduate School to show appreciation for all that our graduate students do. There are events both to celebrate graduate students and to help them in achieving their goals. Following … Continued
The UT Libraries is collecting essays and other creative responses to Station Eleven, last fall’s Life of the Mind reading, for a book to be published by Newfound Press, the UT Libraries’ online imprint. The Libraries welcomes all submissions that can be represented in a printed publication — essays, poems, works of art, even humor. … Continued
Want to see your work in print? The UT Libraries invites FYS 100 students to submit the assignments they created last fall in response to Emily St. John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven. The UT Libraries is collecting essays and other creative responses to Station Eleven for a book to be published this coming fall … Continued
On Monday, April 16, poet and editor Brenda Hillman will read as part of the University of Tennessee’s Writers in the Library reading series. Brenda Hillman is the author of ten collections of poetry: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar, Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water, for which she … Continued
On Monday, April 2, poets Kristin Robertson and Daniel Lawless will read as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Kristin Robertson is the author of Surgical Wing (Alice James Books, 2017). Her poetry appeared recently in The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. She has … Continued