Library News
August 27, 2021
Want to take your children or grandchildren for a hike in the Smokies? The public is invited to a live online conversation with the authors of Family Hiking in the Smokies to learn about the best destinations for a family excursion. The authors — Hal Hubbs, Charles Maynard, and David Morris — have hiked together and with their families for many years. Register here to join the l...
August 25, 2021
Our culture defines for us the “normal” family and the “normal, healthy” individual. Those stereotypes are perpetuated by everyday repetition. Within the family itself, an ongoing discourse defines relationships among family members and with the outside world. Communication professors Jordan Allen (Utah Valley University) and Nicole Allen (Utah State University) study the non-no...
August 24, 2021
Kickoff for the first UT football game of the year will be at 8 p.m., Thursday, September 2. Library assistance is available as follows: Hodges Library will be open regular hours. Use the “Chat with Us” button on the UT Libraries homepage for online research assistance. The Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library will close the building at 2 ...
August 23, 2021
Instructors should be aware of the following resources available in Hodges Library. Instructional Equipment for Checkout — https://libguides.utk.edu/instructional-equipment Borrow video cameras, GoPros, tripods, and lighting kits to record lectures, modules for performance-based courses, and more. Instructional equipment is available for checkout at the Public Services Desk on t...
August 23, 2021
Masks are now required in all libraries, in all public spaces. This morning the chancellor announced to the Volunteer community: “Because the delta variant is continuing to spread and is driving up hospitalizations in our community, we are adjusting campus health and safety guidelines. … [M]asks are now required in all indoor public spaces, except in private offices and residenc...
August 4, 2021
The Student Government Association (SGA) has recognized the contributions of several UT instructors who used open course materials or Open Educational Resources (OER) in 2020. Due to restrictions of the pandemic, the library was unable to honor the 2020 SGA Open Education Award winners in an awards ceremony. To recognize and share their accomplishments, the 2020 award winners in...
July 23, 2021
During the summer, Pendergrass Library has been closed to allow installation of a fire-preventive sprinkler system. Starting Monday, July 26, 2021, Pendergrass will again be open to the UT community. For the remainder of the summer, Pendergrass will be open Monday – Friday, 8am – 6pm. Services resuming on July 26: Faculty, staff, and students will be able to req...
June 22, 2021
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Spring Association Meeting featured the sixth annual ARL Film Festival (the Arlies). The festival highlights member-created videos that promote and generate awareness for library spaces, services, collections, and more. UT Libraries received a 2021 Arlie award in the Best Performance category for “We Got Your E-Books,” p...
June 21, 2021
Two books published by the UT Press in 2020 have won national book awards. A Smoky Mountain Boyhood by Jim Casada received the bronze medal for Best Regional Non-Fiction for the Southeast in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards contest. Stephen D. Cox’s Civil War Flags of Tennessee won the Army Historical Foundation’s 2020 Distinguished W...
June 17, 2021
“When I was little and said I wanted to be a poet, Mother said, ‘That’s good, Marilou, but what will you do for the people?’” Marilou Awiakta was speaking at a livestreamed event hosted by the UT Libraries and McClung Museum to honor the poet, essayist, storyteller, and activist. At age four, she took the lesson to heart: Whatever your gift, you should share it with the co...
June 10, 2021
The Extraordinary Customer Service Award is given annually to a UT Libraries faculty or staff member who exemplifies the libraries’ service philosophy. It is one of several awards endowed by friends of the UT Libraries that are presented at the Library Spirit Awards, an event that celebrates the accomplishments of the libraries’ faculty and staff over the previous year. Th...
May 20, 2021
Each year, 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 individ...
April 30, 2021
UT Libraries is again partnering with the Office of Research and Engagement to provide funding to authors of scholarly monographs who want to make their work open access. Funding is available through TOME, Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem, a program of the Association of American Universities, Association of University Presses, and Association of Research Libraries (ARL). In t...
April 28, 2021
Beginning May 12, Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library will be closed for part of the summer for sprinkler installation. This project is anticipated to last approximately eight weeks. During this time, Pendergrass staff will be available to support your teaching, research, and learning both online and at other UT Libraries locations. KEY DATES Friday, May 7: ...
April 7, 2021
A single eastbound lane of Joe Johnson Drive, which connects the Agriculture Campus to the main campus, will be closed April 2021 to April 2022 to facilitate construction of the new Teaching and Learning Center. The curbside lane adjacent to Pendergrass Library will close; one eastbound lane will remain open. To stay up-to-date with news about the construction project, fol...