Library News
February 9, 2024
The Library Storage Annex was among the upcoming capital projects shared at the UT Knoxville Campus Advisory Board meeting on Thursday, February 1, 2024. The campus advisory board submits recommendations to President Randy Boyd related to campus-level strategic plans and operating budgets, which Boyd then brings to the Board of Trustees for their consideration. In updating the b...
February 1, 2024
More than 120 high school students attended the Big Orange STEM Saturday (BOSS) Conference January 27 at John C. Hodges Library. BOSS is a day-long professional conference that gives students the opportunity to meet with STEM professors and local collaborators and network with them to learn more about what careers they may pursue in STEM disciplines. The students represented 20 ...
January 31, 2024
Storyteller, author, and cultural geographer Carolyn Finney will deliver the 2024 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture on Thursday, February 29, at 7 p.m., at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay Street. The evening will feature conversation on the intersection of race and the environment. The event is free and open...
January 29, 2024
Katie Hannah Katie Hannah has been appointed the next director of the University of Tennessee Press. She will assume the position April 1. Hannah brings more than 20 years of publishing industry experience to the role. As UT Press director, she will be responsible for developing and executing strategic, programmatic, and financ...
January 26, 2024
What library services and resources are important to our community, and how successfully do the libraries deliver them? Many library users will soon receive an email invitation from Louis Becker, Assessment Programs Librarian for UT Libraries, to participate in an online survey designed to answer those questions. On February 15th, invitations will g...
January 9, 2024
The Beauford Delaney Papers, held at the University of Tennessee Libraries, is now available to researchers, students, and instructors. The Beauford Delaney Papers consists of family, personal, and professional correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks and notebooks, artwork, exhibition material, and biographical records created or collected by the Knoxville-born, African-America...
December 18, 2023
Rising from the Ashes: The Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires in Memory and Art, a 2022 publication of the University of Tennessee Press, has won a Mary Ellen LoPresti Publication Award. The LoPresti Publication Award, presented annually by the Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America, recognizes excellence in art...
December 14, 2023
This was a banner year for UT Libraries. We kicked off 2023 with a rise in rankings, hosted several prominent exhibits, increased the number of students served, and opened a new makerspace. Our faculty and staff enhanced the university’s research, teaching, and service mission through contributions to a new core curriculum for...
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...