Library News
October 10, 2025
All students, faculty, and staff are invited to join us for events celebrating the open access of information and research during the week of October 20–24. Monday, October 20 “Understanding the New NIH Public Access Policy” with Olivia Chin 1–2 PM EST on Zoom (register here) T...
October 7, 2025
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." That opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice is engraved in the memories of Jane Austen fans. An exhibit celebrating Jane Austen on the semiquincentennial of her birth is now on view in the Special Collections reading room on the first floor of Hodges...
October 3, 2025
The University of Tennessee Press has released Howdy! The Minnie Pearl Story by Mary Ellen Pethel and Don Cusic. The title is available in hardcover and ebook formats. The performer known as Minnie Pearl was born Sarah Ophelia Colley in 1912 and grew up in Centerville, Tennessee. During the Great D...
September 22, 2025
The University of Tennessee Press has released William Macy Stanton: Architect of the Cumberland by Delos D. Hughes. The title is available in hardcover and ebook formats. When President Roosevelt launched the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Subsistence Homestead Division in 1933, the feder...
September 17, 2025
Each year, the Red and Theresa Howse and Jim and Betty Papageorge Library Scholarship provides tuition assistance to a student library worker. Elizabeth Nix, a student library assistant in Community Learning and Engagement, is this year’s scholarship winner. Elizabeth Nix In her work with...
September 16, 2025
The University of Tennessee Libraries has added two new associate deans to its senior leadership team. On October 1, Jen Bartlett will join UT Libraries as Associate Dean for Engagement, Learning, and Public Services, and Jennie Mezick will become Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and Assessment. Both associate deans will provide strategic and innovative direction, repre...
September 11, 2025
Renowned 20th-century modernist painter Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the subject of a new exhibition at Hodges Library. Beauford Delaney: Light Beyond the Canvas is on view in the exhibit area on the first floor, just outside Special Collections. Materials will be on display through May of 2026. In 2022, UT Libraries acquired the complete pe...
September 9, 2025
The University of Tennessee Press has released a second edition of A Natural History Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Donald W. Linzey. The guide is now available in paperback and ebook formats. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in th...
August 22, 2025
The Student Library Advisory Committee is seeking volunteers for the 2025–2026 academic year. Please submit your application by Sept. 16. Composed of undergraduate and graduate students from across disciplines, the Student Library Advisory Committee (SLAC) provides invaluable contributions to the UT Libraries. Members meet as a full committee approximately two to three time...
August 12, 2025
The University of Tennessee Press has published From Out of the Smokies: Stories of Fly Fishing and Life by Charlie Tombras. Released on August 12, it is now available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats. The author, Charles Tombras Jr., passed away on July 2, 2025. UT Press is honored...
August 7, 2025
UT Learn@Research LibForum, a collaboration between UT Libraries and the Graduate School’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, is seeking presenters for the fall semester forum. Presented by and for researchers, the mission of the forum is to cultivate a strong research community across the University of Tennessee via presentations and colleague interactions. The forum is currently ...
August 1, 2025
From August 6 to August 13, a construction project will partially block one of the Hodges Library entrances. But the library remains open and accessible. Demolition of the old Melrose Hall on Melrose Avenue, adjacent to Hodges Library, will close the sidewalk between the Pedestrian Walkway and the second-floor entrance to Hodges. In addition, two of the three doors at the ...
July 2, 2025
The University of Tennessee Press has published Tennessee Samplers: Female Education and Domestic Arts, 1800–1900 by Jennifer C. Core and Janet S. Hasson. Released on July 1, it is now available in hardcover and ebook formats. Embroidery samplers, which are generally practice pieces made in fi...
July 2, 2025
The University of Tennessee Press has published The Ideological Origins of African American Literature: From Puritanism to Romanticism by literary scholar Phillip M. Richards. Released on June 27, it is now available in hardcover and ebook formats. In this landmark text, Richards off...
July 2, 2025
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has an updated 2024 Public Access Policy that will go into effect for manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. Once accepted for publication, author-accepted manuscripts must be deposited into PubMed Central and made available to the public without embargo upon the official date of publication. This update diffe...