Thanks,

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Dan Greene
dgreene@utk.edu

IT Technologist III /Web Designer
Library Technology Services
647 Hodges Library
University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

Phone: (865) 974-6890
Fax: (865) 974-0626

4:00pm-5:00pm
Introduction to Digital Video: iMovie

Wednesday, March 5
10:00am-12:00pm
Cross-National Time Series Data at UT

4:00pm-5:00pm
Advanced Editing: iMovie

Thursday, March 6
4:00pm-5:00pm
DVD Authoring: iDVD

Tuesday, March 11
7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
The Way I Spent The End Of The World
Romania / d. Catalin Mitulescu / 106 min
Set in Romania towards the end of the Ceausescu regime, The Way I Spent the End of the World depicts a few months in the life of one family as they deal with universal struggles like raising kids, finding work, and abiding by societal expectations

March 25, 2008
7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Fraulein
Switzerland / d. Andrea Staka / 81 min
Fraulein explores questions of nationality, immigration and generational differences through the lives and friendships of three women from the former Yugoslavia living in Zurich and working in a cafeteria

Biology Nights

Thursday, March 27
6:30 PM Hodges Library 253
Too Hot Not to Handle: Winning the Battle Against Global Warming
Run Time: 55 min.
This film offers a wealth of scientific evidence for dire climate-change predictions--but it also shows how businesses, local governments, and citizens can take positive action to reduce future dangers. With in-depth discussions of what may lie ahead, including increases in storm surges, hurricanes, water pollution, forest fires, and epidemics, the program promotes the urgently needed use of alternative energy sources, such as biodiesel, clean-burning coal, and wind and solar power. Interviews with leading climatologists and environmental health experts enliven the film's two-pronged focus on perils and solutions.

In the first of two novellas comprising The Holiday Season, a father and two adult sons struggle through the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays to redefine their relationships after the death of the wife and mother who bound them together. The second novella, set during one New Year's Eve, "is packed with people brought into uncomfortable proximity on a night traditionally given over to optimism." [New York Times Book Review].

Earlier books by Michael Knight include Divining Rod, a novel, and two collections of stories, Goodnight, Nobody and Dogfight and Other Stories.

Knight sets his narratives in his native Alabama -- and to good advantage. "Nobody writes about the contemporary Southern upper middle class as well as Michael Knight," according to the Mobile Register. "Knight's writing [is] understated, graceful, easy. At the same time, he is no stranger to the Southern Gothic tradition, which is to say he peoples his novel with characters whose eccentricities, at once comic and sad, are accepted and everyday," says the Washington Post Book World. And the New York Times Book Review allows: "For all its dark insight into human entanglements, Knight's fiction also contained surprising jolts of humor."

Join Writers in the Library at 7 pm, Monday, March 10, in the UT Hodges Library auditorium to experience Michael Knight's own Southern blend of realism and humor.

Selected artwork will be installed in May and remain on view through November 2008 in first floor reference room, Hodges Library. For more info, contact Jennifer Beals at 974-0014 or jbeals@utk.edu.

Student Art in the Library: http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/artinlibrary/

The historical origins of the Melungeons are the subject of many conflicting theories. Are they of Gypsy or Turkish ancestry? The descendants of shipwrecked sailors? A longstanding myth even proclaimed them an indigenous people, inhabiting Appalachia before the arrival of the first white settlers. And present-day genetic studies have not provided a conclusive answer to the question of their origins.

To learn more about the Melungeons, join us to hear Wayne Winkler on Tuesday, March 11, 11:00 am, in 605 Hodges Library. Winkler, himself of Melungeon ancestry, is the former president of the Melungeon Heritage Association and author of Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia.

A collection of books on the Melungeons is available in our Culture Corner, 1st floor, Hodges Library.

*Tri-racial describes populations thought to be of mixed European, sub-Saharan African, and Native American ancestry.

The film, A Man Named Pearl, will be screened at the Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Hall, Wednesday, February 27, 7 pm. A discussion with Mr. Fryar will follow the film. The film offers an upbeat message that speaks to respect for both self and others, and shows what one person can achieve when he allows himself to share the full expression of his humanity.

Fryar will also visit the Pendergrass Library on the agricultural campus on Thursday, February 28. A reception will be held in his honor at 5:30 pm in the library, followed by a demonstration of his work at 6:00 pm.

Support for these events is provided by Ready For The World, the Commission for Women, the Black Cultural Center, and the UT Libraries Diversity Committee.

Julie Auer is a Knoxville lawyer and freelance writer of fiction and nonfiction. Previously inspired by her work as a public defender to write about crime, her work has appeared in several regional anthologies including the 2004 literary edition Knoxville Bound.

Apart from crime, her published work ranges from social justice commentary for the Hellbender Press to a monthly humor column for the Knoxville Voice. She is currently at work on a book project about the 1934 Stonega Company coal mining disaster in Derby, Virginia.

Stephen Dupree is a lifelong Knoxvillian with generous and varied exposure to the world. Military, acting, and technical employment have sent him into many corners of Europe and the U.S. and allowed him the opportunity to explore some of the corners of his mind. Observations, questions, and conclusions all appear in his writings. Whether by accident or effort, he tends to look at things from a slightly different angle than the "norm." Nothing is off limits and humor can be found in anything, are his guidelines. He has been a contributing columnist to Knoxville's Metro Pulse.

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.

"Doing library research can be very challenging," Jeanine Williamson, a reference librarian who founded Research Assist, said. "With Research Assist, you can get one-on-one help finding, selecting and locating other sources that make a research project complete."

Students often rely too heavily on Internet resources that may not be reliable. Some universities, such as the history department at Middlebury College in Vermont, have limited students' use of sites like Wikipedia.

"Whereas Wikipedia is extraordinarily convenient and, for some general purposes, extremely useful, it nonetheless suffers inevitably from inaccuracies deriving in large measure from its unique manner of compilation," a statement from the Middlebury College department reads. "Students are responsible for the accuracy of information they provide, and they cannot point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences of errors."

Librarians at UT look forward to helping students identify appropriate scholarly sources for their research. "Internet sites like Wikipedia can be a great place to start, but it isn't the place to do real research," Rita Smith, associate dean of libraries, said. "We look forward to helping students broaden their information-gathering skills, and to teaching them how to analyze the accuracy of the information they use. Information literacy is one of the best ways to get ready for the world," Smith said.

Students can make an appointment for Research Assist by filling out the form at www.lib.utk.edu/refs/researchassist/. There are also drop-in hours described on the web page.

The 5K run through the heart of the UT campus will start at Circle Park at 8:30 am, and the one-mile fun walk will follow. The registration table opens at 7:30 am. Pre-registration is $15; race day registration is $20. Click here to download the 2008 entry form.

The Graduate Student Senate held its first race to benefit the UT Libraries in 1992. Proceeds from the race are used to purchase library materials crucial to graduate-level study and research.

The race is sanctioned and emceed by the Knoxville Track Club. An awards ceremony will follow the race. Awards will be given to the top three runners overall, 1st Masters (40+) and 1st Grand Masters (50+), male and female -- as well as awards given by age and gender. Awards must be picked up on race day; they will not be mailed. Fun Run t-shirts are guaranteed to all pre-registered runners. Shirts will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis on race day.

For more information, contact Graduate Student Senate Vice President Trey Forgety at 865-974-2377 or gss2@utk.edu.

Film Movement gathers films from the top film festivals from around the world. Most of these films do not receive U.S. distribution. Each month Film Movement releases one film on dvd, and grants performance rights to UT Libraries to show the films on-screen.

So join us this Spring at the UT Libraries' Film Movement Series and sample award-winning, first-run independent and international feature films unlikely to be screened elsewhere in Knoxville.

Seven films will be shown in Hodges Library Auditorium at 7:30PM every other Tuesday from January 29th through April 22nd. A short film will follow the main feature. The film screenings are free and open to the public.

Film Schedule for Febrary

Febrary 12: Viva Cuba (Cuba) running time: 80 minutes
Cuba / d. Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti / 80 min
Two children on the cusp of adolescence embark on a journey when their friendship is threatened by their parents' social and political differences.

February 26: The Island (Russia) running time: 112 minutes
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives a very unusual monk. Those who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons, and foretell the future.

Moore wears several literary hats -- author, editor, publisher. A North Carolina resident of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry, she channels the voices of her Native American ancestors through several genres -- fiction, essays, poetry.

She has published collections of Native American tales, an award-winning collection of her own short stories with a focus on Cherokee women (Red Woman with Backward Eyes and Other Stories), and her first novel (The Diamond Doorknob).

The most recent collection of her poetry is Confessions of a Madwoman. Her earlier Spirit Voices of Bones includes one poem that is translated into eleven different native languages.

Moore has edited several anthologies of essays by and about Native Americans, including Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust and Genocide of the Mind: An Anthology of Native American Writing. Eating Fire, Tasting Blood includes essays with such poignant titles as "Manifest Destiny: Greed Disguised as God" and "A Flood of Tears and Blood: And Yet the Pope Said Indians Had Souls."

Moore was chosen as Wordcrafter of the Year (2003-2004) by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She was honored with the prestigious award of North Carolina's Distinguished Woman of the Year in the Arts in 1998, and chosen by Native Peoples magazine as one of the top five American Indian writers of the new century (June/July 2000 issue). Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers chose her as creative prose fiction Writer of the Year in 2002 for her book Red Woman with Backward Eyes and Other Stories. She is founder of rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, which was chosen as Publisher of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers in 2001.

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.


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Granddaddy stood five feet four inches and was slight of stature. "Paper-sack brown" was how my family described his coloring. Shiny, crow-black hair and eyes, he called himself a "full-blooded Cherokee." Many times people mistook him for one of the Mexicans who came to the rich bottomlands of western Tennessee every fall to pick cotton. He never bothered to correct them.

When I was growing up in the fifties, it wasn't as acceptable to be American Indian as it is now. There was no Dances With Wolves over which non-Indians romanticized. No rebellious young people totally distraught over the Vietnam War, looking for answers to society's ills through spiritual teachings...

--from "Everyone Needs Someone" by MariJo Moore, in Genocide of the Mind: An Anthology of Native American Writing

The play, commissioned by Touchstone Theatre and featuring the music by Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock, grew out of oral histories collected by students from Muhlenberg College and Kutztown University and story circles conducted by Peggy Pettitt. The piece is a powerful tapestry of theatre and song highlighting a century of the African American experience in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania.

Also participating in the reading (via videoconference) will be director Mark McKenna, producing artistic director of Touchstone Theatre, and select cast members. The public is welcome to attend the reading and join in the question-and-answer session that follows.

The reading and videoconference are being sponsored by Lehigh University, the UT Theatre Department, and UT's Office of Information Technology.

John McManus is the author of a novel, Bitter Milk, and two collections of short fiction, Born on a Train and Stop Breakin Down, which made him, at 22, the youngest ever recipient of the Whiting Award. His stories have appeared in places like Oxford American, Tin House and Ploughshares. He was born and raised in Blount County and currently teaches in the MFA Program at Goddard College.

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.

Games, prizes, party favors, refreshments, and music will be ongoing from 2:00 until 4:30 throughout the Commons. Be present for the welcoming remarks at 3:00; a drawing for prizes such as a Dell 926 All-In-One Printer and a 1GB flash drive will follow a brief ceremony.

The Commons is a place for students to interact, get technology support and research assistance, and work on course assignments. To help enhance student learning and research, the Commons provides state of the art technology and resources.

The newly expanded and renovated Commons features brightly-painted walls, upholstered booths, comfortable arm chairs and sofas interspersed among almost 200 computer workstations. Here students can checkout a laptop, snuggle into an easy chair, and access the internet or a remote printer over our wireless network. They can create a video or practice a multimedia presentation in our Practice Presentation Room, be tutored in statistics or writing skills, or have their personal computers scanned for viruses and spyware.

On a busy day, the Commons hosts as many as 2000 visitors. Most services are available 24 hours a day, five days a week.

The 4th Annual Free Range Video Contest is now underway. This year we are partnering with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and are pleased to announce that our theme is, "Politics Now!" The contest is open to all UTK students, faculty and staff at any skill level.

The theme is open to your interpretation and can be about politics at any level ranging from the home to work to local community to national and even international politics. We all encounter politics everywhere in life and this is a chance for you to tell us what you think about politics! So, make your voice heard. Check out the contest website for contest details and to register!

The Studio can provide video equipment for checkout. Additionally, we provide video editing workstations with software and instruction classes for using video software. Take a look at The Studio website for resources you can use to make your project.

Visit our website for course listings now!

The 4th Annual Free Range Video Contest is now underway. This year we are partnering with the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and are pleased to announce that our theme is, "Politics Now!" The contest is open to all UTK students, faculty and staff at any skill level.

The theme is open to your interpretation and can be about politics at any level ranging from the home to work to local community to national and even international politics. We all encounter politics everywhere in life and this is a chance for you to tell us what you think about politics! So, make your voice heard. Check out the contest website for contest details and to register!

The Studio can provide video equipment for checkout. Additionally, we provide video editing workstations with software and instruction classes for using video software. Take a look at The Studio website for resources you can use to make your project.

Wed, Dec. 12: 8am - midnight
Thurs, Dec. 13: 8am - 10pm
Fri. Dec. 14: 9am - 5pm
Sat - Sun, Dec. 15-16: closed
Mon - Fri, Dec. 17 - 21: 9am - 5pm

We will be closed from Dec. 22 through Jan. 8 and resume regular hours on Jan. 9.

You will need to request a time to complete a one-on-one certificaiton with a studio staff member prior to reserving this camera. It will be able to be checked-out for up to 3 days based on availability and you may begin reserving it on our website now.

Recently a group from the library entered Apple '07 Insomnia Film Festival. Public rating is a large part of the contest. Please help us out by taking a look at our entry and rating it.

http://edcommunity.apple.com/insomnia_fall07/item.php?itemID=1503

Participants include:
Mary Butler
Cheryl Cranick
Matthew Ownby
Cathy Jenkins
Michelle Brannen

Thanks again!
Michelle

For more information visit Adobe

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Their color schemes come complete with hex, rgb, and hsb codes. You can download the schemes for photosop, illustrator, colorschemer studio, a css file, or an html file. Very simple to work with and convenient.

Darwin's Theory of Evolution revolutionized scientific thinking. Since the publication of The Origin of Species 147 years ago, this theory has been extensively and rigorously tested. Overwhelming scientific evidence from many disciplines exists to support this theory. From the vast body of scientific evidence that has accumulated, we have come to an understanding of all areas of the biological world - from our cells and DNA to our lakes and forests. Evolutionary principles are the foundation of all modern biology and have led to major advances in fields as diverse as molecular biology, developmental biology, genetics, behavior, and paleontology. As such, evolutionary theory is a fundamental and necessary component of modern science education.

Evolution: Education and Outreach will promote accurate understanding and comprehensive teaching of evolutionary theory for a wide audience. Targeting K-16 students, teachers and scientists alike, the journal will publish articles to aid members of these communities in the teaching of evolutionary theory.

Authors are encouraged to submit general review articles about evolution and the teaching of evolution on a variety of topics from cosmology to genetics and earth history to the evolution of cultural artifacts. The journal will address the question of why we should care about evolution by exploring the practical applications of evolutionary principles in daily life and the impact of evolutionary theory on culture and society throughout history. Publication will be timely and peer reviewed.

The journal will connect teachers with scientists by adapting cutting-edge, peer reviewed articles for classroom use on a variety of instructional levels. Teachers and scientists will collaborate on multi-authored papers and offer tools for teachers such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts and powerpoint presentations.

Main Features
- General review articles about evolution

- The teaching of evolution

- Evolution and society: medicine

- Evolution and society: creationism and social Darwinism

- Profiles of prominent evolutionary biologists, educators, politicians etc.

Additional Features include
- Editor's page/column/blog

- Letters from the Trenches

- Evolution in the news

- This Month in Evolutionary History

- Op Ed pieces

- Fighting Back: What's wrong with ID/Creationism

- Honors, awards, news and announcements

- What's new on the web

- Q & A with evolutionists

- Curriculum Corner. Ideas on teaching evolution - what works, what does not

Read and post comments about this on the Chronicle of Higher Education site>>

Recorded training from Web of Science is available on all the features of the database. It is worth your time.

Questions about Web of Science? Contact Donna Braquet, Life Sciences Librarian, 974-0016.

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We are writing to inform you that an upgrade of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is scheduled for Saturday, 2 February. During this deployment, the system will be unavailable for up to eight hours beginning at approximately 9:00 AM EST. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Published online 17 December 2007
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The Journal of Cell Biology, Vol. 179, No. 6, 1091-1092
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ICIS has provided a static list of about 80 chemicals.
This broad list of chemical prices is taken from the 28 August 2006 issue of Chemical Market Reporter (now rebranded and incorporated into ICIS Chemical Business). The list consists of static price indications from that issue. Products marked with an asterisk (*) have been updated to give indicative prices for 2007. The posted prices do not necessarily represent levels at which transactions may have actually occurred, nor do they represent bid or asked prices. Price ranges may represent quotations from different suppliers, as well as differences in quantity, quality and location. The prices are intended as a guide and not to be used as a basis for negotiations between producers and customers.

For further questions about chemical pricing information, contact Jeanine Williamson, Engineering Librarian, jwilliamson@utk.edu

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--Zoological Record

25 complete entries are available, as well as about 30,000 partial entries. Visit The Encyclopedia of Life today!

This site is available through our online catalog (search Social Science Research Network, SSRN, or Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network) and requires registration with a valid utk.edu email address. Please contact us with any questions you may have or for registration assistance.

Self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar will visit UT this month. Fryar, an African American man in his mid-60s who began creating a three-acre topiary garden in 1984 in an effort to win Yard of the Month for his home, has become an international phenomenon and is the subject of an award-winning film.

The film, A Man Named Pearl, will be screened at the Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Hall, Wednesday, February 27, 7 pm. A discussion with Mr. Fryar will follow the film. The film offers an upbeat message that speaks to respect for both self and others, and shows what one person can achieve when he allows himself to share the full expression of his humanity.

Fryar will also visit the Pendergrass Library on the agricultural campus on Thursday, February 28. A reception will be held in his honor at 5:30 pm in the library, followed by a demonstration of his work at 6:00 pm.

Support for these events is provided by Ready For The World, the Commission for Women, the Black Cultural Center, and the UT Libraries Diversity Committee.

Recorded training from Web of Science is available on all the features of the database. It is worth your time.

Questions about Web of Science? Contact Ann Viera, annviera@utk.edu, 974-9015.

Tennessee's Wild Side airs at 6 p.m Saturdays on PBS.

Click the poster to visit the site.

The 2008 competition has officially started with over 400 schools across the country participating to see who can motivate their campus communities to recycle more and reduce overall waste. Schools will use the week from Sunday, January 27 through Saturday, February 2 to collect their recycling and trash data. The first reports are do by Wednesday, February 6 at 12pm EST, and initial rankings will be posted that Friday, February 8.

The Music Library receives new materials- books, scores, CDs, and DVDs- most every day. A listing of our new acquisitions for each month can be viewed online at this link:

http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/acq/

Click the link for the month you wish to view. To go directly to this month's list go to:

http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/acq/08-feb08.html

Click on the title of any item and go directly to the library catalog record to view more detailed information.

The Music Library receives new materials- books, scores, CDs, and DVDs- most every day. A listing of our new acquisitions for each month can be viewed online at this link:

http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/acq/

Click the link for the month you wish to view. To go directly to this month's list go to:

http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/acq/07-jan08.html

Click on the title of any item and go directly to the library catalog record to view more detailed information.

The 4th edition of this encyclopedia set has been updated and expanded from the previous edition. Published in 2006, this set now contains more recent artists and performers not included in the earlier edition. Entries contain biographical information, a short discography, and citations. Also contains information on genres and types of popular music. A great resource for anyone researching popular music.

If you are interested in testing this database, please go to Test & Evaluation Site for UT Campus Use for more information.