Library News
August 17, 2023
Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, and Mickey Rooney in scenes from Clarence Brown’s 1944 film "National Velvet" (Clarence Brown Papers, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) On Friday, August 18, the Clarence Brown Film Festival moves to the University of Tennessee cam...
August 16, 2023
The Clarence Brown Film Festival will host a free screening of the silent drama Smouldering Fires (1925), 7 p.m., Thursday, at Central Cinema. The UT Libraries holds the legendary director’s archives, which includes hundreds of still photos from Brown’s films. Smouldering Fires stars Pauline Frederick as Jane Vale, a tough-minded, middle-aged business woman who falls in love wit...
August 10, 2023
Clarence Brown directing Greta Garbo in “Romance” (Clarence Brown Papers, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) The Clarence Brown Film Festival, August 16–20, will explore the work and legacy of the renowned Hollywood director who grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. Festival act...
July 10, 2023
Left: Aerial view of the new Library Storage Annex location. Right: The site as it currently looks. At first glance, the large parking lot near a warehouse district in West Knoxville seems unremarkable. But this space will soon be home to the treasures of the UT Libraries. The university is moving forward with the construction of the Libr...
June 28, 2023
Are you longing for an old-fashioned Fourth of July parade? Thanks to photographic archives preserved by Tennessee’s libraries, you can revisit parades from the turn of the 20th century, when the horse and buggy far outnumbered the motor car. The above photos are publicly available through the Digital Library...
June 20, 2023
The Graduate Commons is expanding! The Graduate Commons on the first floor of Hodges Library will more than double in size. The new space opens on June 20. The Graduate Commons, 131 Hodges Library, will expand into an adjacent area formerly used as office space. Expansion into room 130 will add two large group study rooms, two smaller group study rooms, and a large open area fur...
June 20, 2023
This summer, the John C. Hodges Library is hosting two programs that seek to prepare students from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in college. Engaging with the community is part of the University of Tennessee’s land-grant mission of research, teaching, and outreach. Over the past decade, the UT Libraries’ office of Community Learning Services and Diversity Programs has col...
June 16, 2023
Juneteenth (June 19th) commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Upon proclaiming Juneteenth a national holiday in 2021, President Biden noted, “On June 19, 1865 — nearly nine decades after our Nation’s founding, and more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation — enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally received word th...
June 14, 2023
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy passed away on June 13 at age 89. Long before his books — including The Road and No Country for Old Men— made him popular, McCarthy penned stories for the student literary magazine Phoenix while enrolled at the University of Tennessee. He wrote Wake for Susan in the fall 1959 edition and A Drowning Incident in the spring 1960 edition...
May 25, 2023
The UT Libraries held its 34th annual Libraries Spirit Awards ceremony on May 24. As Dean of Libraries Steve Smith told the gathering, the yearly breakfast is an opportunity to “recognize and express our appreciation to just a few of the Libraries’ exceptional staff members and student workers.” A committee of library staff members selects the winners from among those individual...
May 17, 2023
Do you create digital content? Whether you’re sharing an opinion, offering a service, or selling a product — if your digital content isn’t accessible to all, you’re simply creating barriers to your own work. A billion people worldwide have some type of disability. Yet, a 2023 study of a million homepages found that 96.3% failed to meet at least one of the Web Content Accessibili...
May 11, 2023
The Red and Theresa Howse and Jim and Betty Papageorge Library Scholarship provides tuition assistance to a student library worker. The scholarship was created by Beth Howse Baldwin (Business Administration, ’82) in memory of her parents, Red and Theresa Howse, and in honor of her aunt and uncle, Betty and Jim Papageorge. The wonderful memories that these four individuals shared...
May 9, 2023
Top row, left to right: Drew Borucki, Bethany Ledyard, Maggie Lingle, Daniel Maynard. Bottom row, left to right: Shaquille St. John, Lilly Weir, Mikayla Wood. Spring graduation ceremonies at the University of Tennessee take place May 18-20. UT Libraries takes the opportunity to recognize library student assistants who are graduating this ...
May 8, 2023
Watch your grades grow this year during UT Libraries’ De-Stress for Success during finals week! Come to Devine, Hodges, or Pendergrass Libraries for relaxing activities, snacks, and more. George F. Devine Music Library: Rock Painting Thursday, May 11, 3pm–5pm Monday, May 15, 3pm–5pm Tuesday, May 16, 3pm–5pm...
May 4, 2023
Commencement is upon us! Does it make you nostalgic for your own days at UT? Revisit those days by way of the UT Libraries’ digital collections. Digitized versions of Volunteer yearbooks and commencement programsare available online. Flip through Volunteer yearbooks, page by page, and take a trip down memory lane. Have a look at these photos from the 1970 Volunteer: ...