Library News
December 12, 2023
From left: Jetaeh Temple and Elle Moghadam The University of Tennessee will host fall commencement ceremonies on Friday, December 15. UT Libraries takes the opportunity to recognize our student assistants who are graduating and to celebrate their hard work and accomplishments. Elle Moghadam: Moghadam is graduating with a Master of Science...
December 11, 2023
During her senior year at Lane College in 1923, Lessie Belle Spann created a 45-page scrapbook. UT Libraries digitized this hundred-year-old journal from its manuscript collections, and the Lane College Scrapbook is now viewable online as a digital collection Lane College, established in 1882, was among the earliest Black-founded and run colleges in the United States. It opened ...
December 4, 2023
The original, serialized version of Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1870. Many later writers have attempted to complete the story. (Courtesy of Jeff Johnson) Jeff Johnson, past president of the board of UT Libraries’ John C. Hodges Society, has curated an exhibition of rare books at the prestigious Grolier C...
November 30, 2023
Every November is National Novel Writing Month. Each year, the NaNoWriMo nonprofit organization hosts an international novel-writing challenge to promote creative writing. Once again, the UT Libraries and the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center joined in the fun by hosting our own short story contest. Twenty-three students dropped by our five-hour "write-in" on the evening of...
November 14, 2023
Thank you to everyone who supported UT Libraries during the Big Orange Give campaign. The University of Tennessee received a record 11,461 gifts on the 11th anniversary of this annual day of giving. One-hundred and thirteen of these gifts were designated for UT Libraries, totaling $22,640. Generous donors like you allow us to ...
November 13, 2023
“Leading the Way Out of the Fire” by Paige Braddock (Rising from the Ashes: The Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires in Memory and Art, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee Libraries) On this seventh anniversary of the deadly wildfire that ravaged Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains in 2016, UT...
November 10, 2023
Cormac McCarthy UT Libraries has acquired photos, letters, and postcards from the widow of Jim Long, the Knoxville man on whom writer Cormac McCarthy based one of the memorable characters of his novel Suttree. The collection includes Long’s inscribed first edition of Suttree; a photo of Long and McCarthy as youngsters at St. Ma...
November 10, 2023
The Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library has digitized its entire collection of University of Tennessee theses and dissertations, making the work of UT graduates visible to scholars around the globe. Theses and dissertations in veterinary medicine and agriculture disciplines that were formerly housed at Pendergrass Library are now available online through TRAC...
November 2, 2023
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers can apply for funds to archive and share their data. The Data Archiving and Sharing Fund assists UT Knoxville researchers in openly archiving and preserving data sets by providing up to $250 toward depositing a data set in the data repository Dryad. The fund is supported in full by the University of Tennessee Libraries. Dryad ...
October 31, 2023
The costumed human who portrays the Vols’ beloved canine mascot at sports events has undergone many makeovers over the years. Smokey’s earliest human namesakes certainly looked nothing like a Bluetick Coonhound! The canine Smokey himself joined the team in 1953. After some deliberation, the UT Pep Club settled on a hound as the most appropriate mascot for the Volunteers — narrow...
October 31, 2023
What is the Library Storage Annex (LSA)? The Library Storage Annex is a facility that will provide for the storage of important physical library materials that need to be retained and preserved but that are not used often enough to require storage in Hodges or one of our branch libraries. Many universities host versions of an LSA, often referred to by the more generic term o...
October 31, 2023
Dean of Libraries Steve Smith Dean of Libraries Steve Smith recently shared his hopes and vision for the new Library Storage Annex—a modern climate-controlled facility that will house special collections materials; the University of Tennessee Archives; the Modern Political Archives; important but little-used items from the gene...
October 23, 2023
Artist Joe Delaney contemplates one of his in-process canvases (Alex Haley Papers, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, UT Libraries) The art of Knoxville-born artist Joseph Delaney is the featured display in the Special Collections Reading Room, first floor of Hodges Library. The exhibit includes fi...
October 18, 2023
President John F. Kennedy signing legislation that allocated funds for new community mental health centers. Photograph by Abbie Rowe, 1963. Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum A national exhibition examining the nation’s past responses to mental health and current approaches to care will be on display at UT Libraries ...
October 5, 2023
The Modern Political Archives (MPA) will close as of Monday, October 9, for about two to three years. The MPA collections, which have been housed at the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, will be placed in secure storage until completion of the planned Libraries Storage Annex, a modern climate-controlled facility that also will house special collecti...