Library News
August 7, 2026
TRACE (Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange), UT Knoxville’s open access repository, preserves research, creative work, and administrative documents created by the campus community. Anyone can keep up with the world-class research at UT Knoxville by browsing TRACE! Open Access. Archiving your r...
August 7, 2026
Textbook costs shouldn’t stand in the way of success! VolBooks and the UT Libraries have created a partnership to help make course materials more affordable to UT students. VolBooks’ Total Access program offers undergraduate students one flat fee per term for all required course materials. And...
August 5, 2026
Rare book and map collections from UT Libraries’ special collections and archives are now on display on the first floor of Hodges Library. The exhibit features maps, atlases, and geographical texts that range from global perspectives to localized charts of Tennessee and the American South. Spanning the 16th through the 19th centuri...
July 8, 2026
Edan Estes-Lumpkin speaks to Governor’s School scholars. Throughout the month of June, the UT Libraries’ Office of Community Learning and Engagement hosted the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Sciences and Engineering at the John C. Hodges Library. Across four interactive sessions, the Libraries actively connected more than 70 high sch...
May 22, 2026
UT Libraries held its annual Spirit Awards ceremony on May 20. The yearly event recognizes and honors the outstanding achievements of faculty and staff who embody the spirit of excellence, innovation, and service within the UT Libraries. For most awards, a committee of library staff members selects the winners from among those...
May 20, 2026
UT Libraries staff pack up books for the move back to Knoxville. The University of Tennessee Libraries has received thousands of books from the estate of author Cormac McCarthy. The books — numbering between 16,000 and 18,000 volumes — are from the late author’s personal library. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who died in 2...
May 14, 2026
UT Libraries gratefully acknowledges the work of the 2025–26 Student Library Advisory Committee. Members of the Student Library Advisory Committee contribute valuable input to decision-making at the University Libraries. The committee, comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from different disciplines, provides a...
May 14, 2026
As UT Libraries prepares to relocate materials from the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives to the new Library Storage Annex, manuscript and archival collections will be temporarily unavailable, and the Reading Room will be closed for most of 2026. In-person instruction and research consultations in Special Collections will also not be avai...
May 12, 2026
The University of Tennessee Libraries celebrates the accomplishments and honors UT Libraries staff, faculty, and student assistants have achieved. Maggie Albro has earned the Systematic Review Services Specialization, Level I, from the Medical Library Association. Dameon Binion was the recipient of an impromptu awar...
May 8, 2026
The 2ndBRIDGE program, hosted by the University of Tennessee Libraries, teaches middle school students about opportunities available at the University of Tennessee and motivates them to begin thinking about college preparedness. The Libraries’ Office of Community Learning and Engagement organized the event held at the John C. Hodges Library on May 1. The 2026 2ndBRIDGE hosted si...
May 8, 2026
Pictured (from lower left): Cooper Henson, Afia Adiba, Ashley Cate, Joe Ferguson, Lily Hague, Abigael Johnson This spring, more than 16 UT Libraries student workers and full-time staff will complete their academic degrees. We take this opportunity to celebrate them and recognize their achievements. Afia Adiba will receive her Master ...
April 27, 2026
The University of Tennessee Libraries has signed an agreement with the scholarly publisher John Wiley & Sons that will allow a limited number of UT authors per year to publish free of charge in Wiley’s hybrid* open access journals. Corresponding authors currently affiliated with the University of Tennessee System (includin...
April 20, 2026
Students visit a tabling event at Big Orange STEM Saturday, March 28, 2026. Knox County high school students recently experienced the cutting edge of science and technology through the 2026 Big Orange STEM Saturday (BOSS) conference, hosted by the University of Tennessee Libraries. This year’s theme was “Tomorrow’s Cures, Today’s Innovati...
April 10, 2026
Join in the Libraries’ Scavenger Hunt during National Library Week (April 20–24) and enter a drawing for a giveaway (sponsored by the Vol Shop). All Scavenger Hunt hints and giveaway details will be posted Monday, April 20, on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn (@UTKLibraries). You must submit at least four correct answer...
April 6, 2026
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor John Zomchick has reappointed Steve Smith to serve another five-year term as Dean of Libraries. The reappointment, effective July 1, comes after a mandatory evaluation in accordance with the Faculty Handbook. The provost charged a committee comprised of campus and libraries employees to revie...