Melissa Range will read from her poetry at Writers in the Library, 7 p.m., Monday, November 7, in UT’s Hodges Library auditorium. Melissa Range’s first book of poems, Horse and Rider, Texas Tech University Press, won the 2010 Walt McDonald First-Book Series Prize in Poetry. She has published in The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, … Continued
Volunteer football programs from past years are now online. The Tennessee Football Programs are among the digital collections available on the UT Knoxville Libraries website at www.lib.utk.edu/digitalcollections. The collection includes programs and guides for home games and postseason games. Visitors to the website can browse by Year, Coach, Guides, or Postseason. The Tennessee Volunteers have … Continued
Learn more about OA: Short Videos by Stefan Buddenbohm I. Go OA: What is Open Access? II.GO OA: What Rights do Scholars and Scientists Have? III. GO OA: Who’s Got Access to Scholarly Information? IV: GO OA: Academics for Sale? What Can STUDENTS Do to Support OA? Students: sign the Individual Statement on the Right to Research: … Continued
Poet Blas Falconer will read his work at Writers in the Library on Monday, October 24, 7 p.m. at the UT Hodges Library Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public. In his latest book of poems, A Question of Gravity and Light, Falconer uses the metaphor of “crossings” to tie together poems … Continued
Express yourself! The National Day on Writing is Thursday, Oct. 20. Stop by the Hodges Library (Melrose entrance), 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., to tweet “Why I Write,” post to the National Day on Writing Facebook page, browse student-written publications, or create a postcard about writing (English 103 and 104 students get credit for doing … Continued
Pendergrass Library has a new copier available for use with a Vol card. Some of its features are: Black and white ($.06/page) or color copying ($.50/page) Free scanning! USB port SD card port
“Digital Publishing Models: Faculty Experiences, Tenure, and Open Access” is an open forum to discuss new publishing models and tenure. The forum will feature remarks from Dr. Sarah Gardial, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Dr. Steven Smith, Dean of Libraries; and faculty authors who have experience with innovative publishing models. A question and answer session … Continued
Novelist Amy Greene will read at Writers in the Library on Monday, October 17, at 7 p.m., in the University of Tennessee’s John C. Hodges Library Auditorium. Her debut novel, Bloodroot, a family saga set in the Smoky Mountains, has been called a “spot-on account of a land and its people — with its old-fashioned … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries’ Newfound Press has published English language editions of two works from the 17th century picaresque novels of Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. The Wondrous Bird’s Nest I, translated from the German by Robert L. Hiller and John C. Osborne, is an adaptation of the 1672 Das wunderbarliche Vogelsnest. The Wondrous … Continued