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December 13, 2005
Country rocker Steve Earle will be January 30 Writer in the Library
Country rock musician Steve Earle will display some of his alternate talents -- writer, poet, playwright -- as the first reader in the spring Writers in the Library series. Earle will entertain us at 7pm on Monday, January 30, 2006, in the Hodges Library auditorium on the University of Tennessee campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The UT Libraries' Writer in Residence, RB Morris, who organizes the Writers in the Library series, is thrilled to bring Steve Earle to campus. "Steve sold out the Tennessee Theater at a pretty steep ticket price last winter playing with his band. Now we have him coming back to town to lay some spoken word on us at Hodges Library auditorium that seats maybe 200 people and is free and open to the public. I just hope the Library's still there when it's over," quipped Morris.
From Steve Earle's web site:"For those who don't know, Steve Earle has been, for the past two decades, one of the more compellingly engaged figures on the American cultural landscape. Steve is the author of best-selling works of fiction ("Doghouse Roses"), a playwright, and a well-known speaker and presence in a variety of left-leaning populist movements. But it is in his persona as an exceedingly thoughtful, yet fun, country rocker that most people know him, and rightly so. His contribution to the merging of progressive country to the wider rock audience remains huge. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that the entire genre of "alt. Country" would not exist without Earle's ground-breaking extension of what used to be called "folk-rock." His recorded work, from the classic 1986 Guitartown onward through such excitingly heartfelt/redemptive works as Copperhead Road, I Feel Alright, El Corazon, Transcendental Blues, to the current The Revolution Starts...Now, represents an extraordinary catalogue of deeply personal music which compares favorably with such esteemed heroes as Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, or even Bob Dylan.
"Few artists have been able and/or willing to put themselves so consistently on the line, or to forthrightly speak their minds as Earle has, while continuing to maintain a commercial presence."
For more details about Writers in the Library, visit www.lib.utk.edu/writersinthelibrary/.
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 deeken@aztec.lib.utk.edu, or R.B. Morris, Jack Reese Writer in Residence, UT Libraries, at 974-3004 or rbmorris@utk.edu.
Posted by Martha Rudolph at 10:05 AM in Writers in the Library
December 07, 2005
Pendergrass AgVetMed Library closed Dec. 15 - Jan. 10
The Pendergrass Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine Library will be closed for a facilities project beginning December 15, continuing through January 10. Please make an effort to complete your library business prior to the start of the project.
The Pendergrass Library will offer limited services out of room A117 (off the Library foyer). We will retrieve materials for patrons upon request, and will offer limited computer access.
Consultations are available. Please contact Ann Viera (annviera@utk.edu) or Diana Holden (dholden@lib.utk.edu) to arrange these services.
Posted by Martha Rudolph at 12:12 PM in Library Facility Updates
December 02, 2005
Hodges Library: ground, 1st & 2nd floors open 24 hours during exams
The ground, 1st and 2nd floors of Hodges Library will be open 24 hours on Study Days (December 7-8) and Exam Days (December 11-14).
The stacks (floors 3-6) will close as usual at midnight on Study and Exam days. Regular extended exam hours remain in effect on Friday and Saturday.
GROUND, 1st, 2nd FLOORS OF HODGES LIBRARYStudy Days:
Open continuously midnight, Wednesday, December 7, to midnight, Friday, December 9Exam Days:
Open continuously midnight, Sunday, December 11, to 10:00 pm, Thursday, December 15
Visit www.lib.utk.edu/hours/ for a complete listing of Finals Week hours.
Posted by Martha Rudolph at 02:22 PM in Library Facility Updates