Many changes continue! Room 120 (former Quiet Study) is part of Special Collections. This is now a secure area open only open to staff of Special Collections and Library Express-Storage-Shipping. For the summer, Digital Production has moved in while their area is renovated and Gov/Docs is staying while they complete the microfiche weeding project. If … Continued
Starting this Wednesday and continuing for the next two weeks, traffic will be slow along a section of Volunteer Boulevard in front of Hodges Library, the pedestrian walkway, and Claxton Education Building. Work crews will install new electrical conduits below street level as part of the construction of the new Student Union, at the site … Continued
Latest communication on Melrose street project from George McGhee in Facilities Services: 1st grounds will be finishing the topcoat on the parking lot at the west end of I/H early this week. When this is done if Parking Services wants to start their remarking of this lot they can. 2nd we have some handicap spots … Continued
Ten pages of double-spaced type? I don’t think so! Our tech-savvy students are just as likely to turn in a video as a term paper in response to a class assignment. And where do students find the equipment and expertise they need to create movies, podcasts, web pages, graphics, and presentations? In the library, of … Continued
The entrance to the lot at Melrose near the I.H. –east to the end of the sidewalk area is to be closed briefly Thursday morning. The concrete trucks and the men working are going to need extra room, so they can pour and work the sidewalk on that end. With the area already tight with … Continued
The end of lot 12 will be closed soon since asphalt is going down today. The upper end, west side, will finish off the sidewalk section for the north side. Work on the walkway, at Hess, will start mid week next week.
Freshmen arriving on the UT campus confront their first intellectual challenge on the day before classes begin. Each year, the Life of the Mind freshman reading program selects a book to be read and discussed by all incoming freshmen. The common reading selection for the Class of 2016 is Eric Liu’s The Accidental Asian: Notes … Continued
Altmetrics is poised to replace the old models of assessing scholarly impact and quality, namely peer review, journal impact factors, and citation statistics. Read more about altmetrics: Altmetrics Manifesto “No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of … Continued
Librarians at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are linking STEM students to some useful online resources. Knoxville’s new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) high school opened in the fall of 2011 in the former L&N Railroad station on World’s Fair Park. The L&N STEM Academy is committed to using the latest technology to prepare … Continued
Special Collections (121 Hodges Library) is expanding into the former quiet study area in 120 Hodges Library. Students are encouraged to seek out the library’s other designated quiet study areas, which include the remainder of the 1st floor and the entire 4th and 5th floors.