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 … Continued
Playwright Linda Parris-Bailey, executive artistic director and principal writer-in-residence for Knoxville’s internationally celebrated Carpetbag Theatre, will be reading scenes from her new commissioned work, “Giants of Lehigh Valley,” in the Commons, second floor of Hodges Library, Saturday, February 2, 1:00-4:00 p.m. The play, commissioned by Touchstone Theatre and featuring the music by Ysaye Barnwell of … Continued
Come by Pendergrass Library and take a look at our new displays. This time we are focusing in the Biofuels Initiative at UT and New Government Document publications in our collection.
The Great Backyard Bird Count, a joint project between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society, is a nationwide citizen science* project happening Feburary 15-18, 2008. Participants simply count the number and kinds of birds they see for as little as 15 minutes during the Bird Count and submit an online checklist. Scientists … Continued
Heavily used agriculture and veterinary medicine databases have a interface new to UT searches. It is called OVIDSP. If you search these databases, we have training aids and guides that will help you learn how to search them with OVIDSP: AGRICOLA 1970 to present Biological Abstracts 1969 to present CAB Abstracts 1973 to present Food … Continued
John McManus, visiting writer in the UT Creative Writing Program this spring, will read at Writers in the Library, Monday, January 28, 7 pm, in the Hodges Library auditorium. 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 … Continued
To read more about the change from voluntary to mandatory open access of all NIH-funded research, see the BioMed Central Blog. A white paper by Michael W. Carroll, an attorney, copyright expert, and faculty member at Villanova University law school is available: “Complying with the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy: Copyright Considerations and … Continued
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will remain open except in the most severe weather conditions. * The Chancellor may officially close or suspend selected activities of the University because of extreme weather conditions. When a decision to close is reached, campus and local radio and TV stations will be notified so that appropriate announcements may … Continued
We all love the liberal food policy here at Pendergrass. So we should all do our part to protect the environment we enjoy by keeping pesky visitors to a minimum and protecting the books and computers. Don’t use the trash cans inside the library for food and drink trash. Take a moment to throw away … Continued
Celebrate the newly-renovated Commons, a collaboration of the University Libraries and the Office of Information Technology (OIT). Drop by our open house on Tuesday, January 22, on the second floor of Hodges Library. Games, prizes, party favors, refreshments, and music will be ongoing from 2:00 until 4:30 throughout the Commons. Be present for the welcoming … Continued