Library News

September 13, 2022

Are you a current or aspiring One Health researcher? Join a virtual workshop on September 21 to learn how UT Libraries supports One Health education and research. The event is open to all students, faculty, and staff interested in One Health research. Register here to attend the Zoom event at 3:30 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday, September 21. ...

September 6, 2022

Members of the disability community and disability advocates will discuss the experience of living and working with a disability at an upcoming virtual panel discussion. The UT Libraries’ Diversity Committee invites the public to join the discussion from noon to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 28, via Zoom at tiny.utk.edu/erased (Passcode: 4QMc0K). Earlier this year, an article ...

August 17, 2022

Did you know that — in addition to books — you can check out SEEDS from the library? Perhaps, as you’ve headed into the Starbucks at Hodges Library, you’ve seen the old-fashioned card catalog that houses packets for the Seed Library. Since 2019, the Seed Library has allowed members of the UT community to grow their own herbs, vegetables, flowers, and fruits. Now, almost three ye...

August 12, 2022

The University of Tennessee Libraries announces the first known English translation of a pioneering study in piano pedagogy. Gottfried Galston’s Studienbuch records the thought processes and musical interpretations of a preeminent concert pianist as he perfected the repertoire for his 1907 concert tour. Galston’s Studienbuch — in both the original German and a new English transl...

July 27, 2022

The arts can play a role in helping communities heal from trauma. Since 2019, the University of Tennessee Libraries, the City of Gatlinburg, and the Anna Porter Public Library have been working to promote healing from the catastrophic Chimney Tops 2 wildfires that swept through the Great Smoky Mountains in November of 2016, killing fourteen people, devastating mountain communiti...

July 5, 2022

The University of Tennessee Libraries has adopted a set of principles for providing access to research and scholarship. We invite you to review the "UT Libraries Philosophy of Access to Research, Scholarship, and Cultural Heritage":  Access Principles 2022 ...

May 3, 2022

Each year, the Student Government Association (SGA) and the UT Libraries Open Education Working Group recognize and celebrate UT instructors who lower or eliminate the cost of textbooks through the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and other zero-cost materials. SGA recently announced faculty recipients of the 2022 Open Education Awards: ...

April 22, 2022

“Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways.”* Many students you will encounter on the university campus are dealing with the added challenges of autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, or mental health issues. And university staff are committed to removing barriers to their...

April 20, 2022

The University of Tennessee Libraries was awarded a $49,200 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources* to digitize fragile audiovisual recordings related to the US Congress of the 1950s and ’60s, including film and audio from investigations, interviews, and campaigns of US Senator Estes Kefauver, and recordings of the 1953–1954 Army–McCarthy hearings. The proje...

April 13, 2022

“I’m only going to ask two questions. One is: What does it mean to love the world? And my second question is: What does that love ask of us in a time of the greatest peril and the greatest promise the world has ever seen?” Kathleen Dean Moore Environmental philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore was deliver...

April 11, 2022

UT Libraries has partnered with The Wall Street Journal to provide sponsored memberships to all University of Tennessee Knoxville students, faculty, and staff. “The Libraries provides access to the WSJ through a number of academic databases,” says Collection Strategist and assistant professor Jennie Mezick. “This access differs because it enables students, faculty, and staff to ...

March 31, 2022

After an illuminating second season of For Your Reference, our final episode will take place Thursday, April 21 at 7 p.m. (EDT). This concluding discussion will feature guests Stevie Munz and Justin Rudnick and will center on issues of publishing identity-based work that utilizes experimental ways of understanding and representing. For Your Reference is dedicated to media a...

March 10, 2022

For generations, we’ve all been told that the Great Smoky Mountains are among the oldest mountains in the world. But research by UT Knoxville geologist Robert D. Hatcher Jr., published in a new book by John E. Ross, Through the Mountains: The French Broad River and Time, reports that the mountains we see today are only 5 to 10 million years old, not 260 to 300 million ...

March 9, 2022

What does history teaching, history telling, and academic mentorship need to do right now, in our current moment? Join us on March 17 as we welcome Dr. Stacey Patton in discussion of these topics and more amid growing debates around Critical Race Theory, the whitewashing of US history, and archival research. With a specific focus on how a white female immigration scholar nurture...