Beginning May 7, walk-up reference desk services currently offered in 135 Hodges Library will move to the Commons. All reference desk help — from quick questions to in-depth research assistance — will be available in the Commons North.

Don’t forget to visit our virtual reference desk, AskUsNow!, for reference help via IM or email.

During the exam period, April 28 through May 5, all of Hodges Library will be open 24 hours. And Hodges Library will have designated “quiet study” and “group study” areas, as follows:

QUIET STUDY AREAS
Ground floor lobby
1st, 3rd, and 5th floors
(On the 2nd floor, the Media Center, Group Viewing Rooms and Mary E. Greer Room [rm. 258] will be reserved for quiet study after midnight.)

GROUP STUDY AREAS
2nd floor Commons
4th and 6th floors

Visit www.lib.utk.edu/hours for a complete listing of library hours.

We encourage students to use the “T” for safe travel to and from late-night study sessions. For information about the T, visit www.ridethet.com.

The UT Libraries Diversity Committee presents a series of films on the effects of water on culture.

View complete film listings.

On Monday, April 21, RB Morris will host his final event as the UT Libraries’ Writer-in-Residence.

This last Writers in the Library event of the semester will feature readings by RB and by authors Greg Congleton, Jesse Graves, Brian Griffin, Marilyn Kallet, Charlotte Pence, and Jack Rentfro. Readings begin at 7 pm in the UT Hodges Library auditorium. A reception will follow the readings.

As the UT Libraries’ Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence, RB Morris has been organizing the Writers in the Library series since 2004. He brought music to Writers in the Library and celebrated songwriters as poets through readings by artists such as Steve Earle, Scott Miller, David Phillips, and Keith Flynn.

Read more about RB Morris

Beginning Sunday, April 13, all floors of the Hodges Library will remain open until 3:00 am, Sunday through Thursday. (Friday and Saturday schedules will not change.)

While most library service desks continue to close at midnight, the building will remain open to provide study space. Commons service points will remain open as normal. (The Commons is open continuously from noon Sunday to midnight Friday, and from 8:00 am to midnight Saturday.)

EXAM PERIOD

During the exam period, April 28 through May 5, all of Hodges Library will be open 24 hours. And Hodges Library will have designated “quiet study” and “group study” areas, as follows:

QUIET STUDY AREAS
Ground floor lobby
1st, 3rd, and 5th floors
(On the 2nd floor, the Media Center, Group Viewing Rooms and Mary E. Greer Room [rm. 258] will be reserved for quiet study after midnight.)

GROUP STUDY AREAS
2nd floor Commons
4th and 6th floors

Visit www.lib.utk.edu/hours for a complete listing of library hours.

We encourage students to use the “T” for safe travel to and from late-night study sessions. For information about the T, visit www.ridethet.com.

Students in UT’s Creative Writing Program compete annually for the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Prizes in fiction and poetry. Winners will read from their award-winning works at Writers in the Library, Monday, April 14, at 7 pm in the Hodges Library auditorium. The prizes were endowed by the same long-time UT English professor, author of the Harbrace College Handbook, for whom the Hodges Library is named.

This year’s winners are:

POETRY

1st Place: Charlotte Pence for “Sometimes When a Child Smiles”
2nd Place: Adam Prince for “Love Poem for My Dad”
3rd Place: Tim Sisk for “Learning to Talk”

FICTION

1st Place: Ryan Woldruff for “Ray”
2nd Place: Otis Haschemeyer for “The Fantome of Fatma”
3rd Place: Beth Keefauver for “Skin”

Dr. John C. Hodges came to UT Knoxville in 1921 and was named head of the English department in 1938, remaining in that position until his retirement in 1962.

His enthusiastic commitment to learning did not end with retirement, however. Three years earlier he had begun the task of improving the university’s library collection, and he continued to serve voluntarily as coordinator of library development until his death in 1967.

His 41 years at the University were marked by far-reaching contributions to the study of English literature and the improvement of educational methods. Dr. Hodges’ influence on the teaching of English continues today through his Harbrace College Handbook, the most widely used college text in the country.

The current John C. Hodges Main Library, which opened in 1987, was constructed around the John C. Hodges Undergraduate Library built in 1969.

Film Movement Film Series
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Dreams Of Dust
Burkina Faso, Canada, France / d. Laurent Salgues / 86 min
Mocktar, a Nigerien peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. Once there, he quickly finds out, the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this wasteland and strange timelessness manage to exist simply from force of habit.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Adam’s Apples
Denmark / d. Anders Thomas Jensen / 94 min
Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. Grasping the extent of Ivan’s crazed, preternatural determination to look on the bright side of everything, his newest ‘helper’ Adam immediately decides to shake him out of his rose-colored stupor

Biology Nights in the Library

Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:30 PM Hodges Library Rm 253
The Last Antibiotic: Late Lessons from Early Warnings
The prescription of antibiotics is a medical tightrope-walk. The drugs save lives, but, because of overuse, may soon usher in a new era of super-germs. This program outlines the discoveries of bacteria and penicillin and sheds light on the frightening emergence of multi-resistant, often deadly microbes during the last six decades. Presenting interviews with researchers who are deeply involved with the issue–including Tufts University microbiology professor Stuart Levy and Eva Nathanson of the World Health Organization’s Stop TB Program–the film examines the implications of antibiotic-enhanced livestock feed and the dangers that staphylococcus poses to hospital patients. Viewer discretion advised. Contains footage of injections, surgeries, and open wounds.

Join the Baker Center for a roundtable discussion of the 2nd Amendment with UT professors Otis Stevens (Law), Glenn Reynolds (Law), and Dorothy Bowles (Journalism and Electronic Media), as well as Cumberland Law School’s Brandon Denning.

Bring your questions, bring your comments and be ready for a fascinating dialogue.

April 3
4:00-5:00 pm
Culture Corner
1st floor, Hodges Library

On January 11, 2008, in response to an act of Congress, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a revision of its Public Access Policy.

Effective April 7, 2008, the agency requires investigators to deposit their articles stemming from NIH funding in the NIH online archive.

Writers in the Library hosts local poets Judy Loest and Linda Parsons Marion on Monday, March 24. Readings begin at 7 p.m. in the Hodges Library auditorium.

Born in Snowflake, Virginia, Judy Loest earned her Master’s Degree in English from the University of Tennessee in 1998. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies and on buses and subways in St. Paul/Minneapolis as part of The Poetry Society of America’s Poetry in Motion program. She is editor of Knoxville Bound, a literary anthology inspired by Knoxville, and a poetry chapbook, After Appalachia, published in 2007 by Finishing Line Press in Kentucky.

Linda Parsons Marion writes of home and the earth it’s built on. Through poems of childhood and gardening, she sings and grieves for the lost and the found in her life, for the many struggles and failings of the human heart. She is the poetry editor of Now & Then magazine and has received a Pushcart Prize nomination and literary fellowships from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Marion is the author of poetry collections Home Fires and the newly published Mother Land. Her poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Asheville Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, among others. She is an editor at the University of Tennessee and lives and gardens in North Hills with her husband, poet Jeff Daniel Marion.

The Writers in the Library series is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the Creative Writing Program of the UT English Department. For further information, please contact Jo Anne Deeken, head of technical services, UT Libraries, at 974-6905 or jdeeken@utk.edu, or R.B. Morris, Jack E. Reese writer in residence, UT Libraries, at 974-3004 or rbmorris@utk.edu.