Library Development Review

2007-2008 LDR The annual Library Development Review highlights our collections, honors our Library Friends, and celebrates extraordinary gifts to the University of Tennessee Libraries.

The 2007-2008 Library Development Review highlights several new additions to our Special Collections. The images featured on the cover of this year's issue are from Bernard de Montfaucon's 18th century work, L'Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures. The library was able to purchase a complete set of Monfaucon's folio volumes, filled with drawings documenting every aspect of ancient Greek and Roman culture.

Special Collections also obtained a politically significant collection of letters written to Memphis lawyer and politician Walter Chandler. During the first half of the 20th century Chandler's political career included terms in the United States Congress as well as the Tennessee Senate and House of Representatives and two stints as mayor of Memphis. Chandler was known as a hard-working and effective legislator. In the U.S. House of Representatives he pressed for bankruptcy reform to help Depression-era families. Seven thick bound volumes of correspondence collected by Chandler include letters from presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Supreme Court justices Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas, and other luminaries.

This issue of the Library Development Review also displays the libraries' technological side, with stories about our Commons, our online imprint (Newfound Press), and the specialized services we offer to UT's graduate students.

2007-2008 Library Development Review (3 MB PDF file) | View Older Issues

Contact Peg Schneider, UT Libraries Development Assistant,
(974-0037; mschnei1@utk.edu) if you would like a print copy.

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