Edward Terry Sanford, 1865-1930
An exhibit on Knoxville’s only U.S. Supreme Court Justice opens Monday, October 3rd, in the upper lobby of the Special Collections Library. The exhibit — “Edward Terry Sanford, United States Supreme Court Justice and Trustee of the University of Tennessee” — will run through December.
Edward Terry Sanford, 1865-1930
An exhibit on Knoxville’s only U.S. Supreme Court Justice opens Monday, October 3rd, in the upper lobby of the Special Collections Library. The exhibit — “Edward Terry Sanford, United States Supreme Court Justice and Trustee of the University of Tennessee” — will run through December.
Barbara Dewey, Dean of Libraries at the University of Tennessee, was recently invited to serve on the Tennessee Advisory Council on Libraries as a representative of academic libraries. She will serve a three-year term beginning October 1, 2005.
The Advisory Council counsels the State Library and Archives regarding their ongoing five-year plan and other long-range planning, policy matters, program evaluations, services and other activities. The council is comprised of public, school, academic, special, and regional libraries as well as the Tennessee Library Association and Tenn-Share, an organization that promotes statewide library resource sharing.
For more information about the Tennessee Advisory Council on Libraries, please visit their Web site at the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
Trailblazers: Jim Thompson and Albert “Dutch” Roth Photographs of the Early Years of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on exhibit at the Ewing Gallery through August 28
Images of the Appalachian Trail, the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club, moonshiners, logging, road building, and the majesty and beauty of the Smoky Mountains are featured in this photographic exhibit at the Ewing Gallery, which runs from June 17 through August 28, 2005.
Amateur photographers Jim Thompson and Albert “Dutch” Roth were among the first to photograph the area that would become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Thanks to the efforts of the University of Tennessee Libraries, their photographs have been preserved and digitized as part of a project through UT’s Digital Library Center.
For more information about the exhibit, please visit the Ewing Gallery Web site.
For more information about the Digital Library Center, visit their Web site.
University Libraries encourages patrons to ‘hear’ native voices
The Diversity Committee of University Libraries has unveiled its new theme – Appalachia – for the Culture Corner, located in the first floor galleria of John C. Hodges Library. Visit the Culture Corner Web site.
“This summer’s Culture Corner theme of Appalachia is the Diversity Committee’s effort to make the UT community aware of a region that many have heard of but may not know much about,” said Kawanna Bright, reference librarian and Culture Corner coordinator. “The selection of Appalachia is also done in recognition of the diversity that is the Appalachian region, emphasizing topics and issues that illustrate the people, history, culture and environment that encompass the region.”
Presented as part of the Global Studies Association Conference
The documentary Argentina: Hope in Hard Times will be shown Saturday, May 14 beginning at 1 p.m. in the Hodges Library Auditorium as part of the Global Studies Association Conference Crosscurrents of Global Social Justice: Class, Gender, and Race. The event is free and open to the public.
The film explores the economic depression in Argentina that began in 2001, when one of the most prosperous countries in South America was thrust into poverty. Argentina had been a poster child for corporate globalization before its economy collapsed.
Unemployment reached 40%, and people who where middle class learned how it felt to be powerless, hungry, and poor. The country’s entire political system was discredited, and Argentina went through a dizzying changeover of four presidents in less than one month.
Three events in April celebrate student artists
As the semester winds down, students feel more pressed upon to complete projects and prepare for exams. To honor the creative efforts and hard work of UT’s students, the UT Libraries has taken time to dedicate three events during the last week of April to the achievements of student artists on campus: Writers in the Library, Student Art in the Library, and the Recycled Video Contest Festival.
The Special Collections Library at the University of Tennessee is the new home to one of the largest collections of James Agee materials. The collection, spanning nearly 15 linear feet, includes letters, fragments of stories and screenplays, and poetic scratchings written by Knoxville’s native son. Deedee Agee, James Agee’s daughter, and her husband, Paul Sprecher, head of the James Agee Trust, brought the materials to Knoxville on April 12, just before the start of the James Agee Celebration at UT.
“These materials are from the family household, that just didn’t happen to get caught up in other collections,” Sprecher said. By depositing the materials at UT, the family hopes the materials will be more available and useful to scholars.
One of the most unique items is a brown spiral notebook Agee used as a journal, writing in his “miniscule, unreadable handwriting,” Deedee Agee said. Some of the material from this notebook and others is contained in James Agee Rediscovered, edited by Michael Lofaro and Hugh Davis and recently published by UT Press.
“This is a goldmine of information for Agee scholars,” Barbara Dewey, Dean of Libraries, said. “It compliments the Agee materials we already own so well. We’re pleased the family has chosen UT, and we look forward to being good stewards of the collection.”
Currently, the materials are contained in a variety of file boxes and need to be arranged and organized so scholars can find what they need. Special Collections staff will process the collection this summer.
R.B. Morris channels James Agee in The Man Who Lives Here is Loony
As part of the James Agee Celebration, the University Libraries’ own writer-in-residence, R.B. Morris, will pay tribute to his fellow Fort Sanders resident in his one-man show The Man Who Lives Here is Loony on April 10 at 7 p.m. and April 11 at 8 p.m. at the Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.
“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.” ~James Agee
Students can submit their work to a juried exhibition
Student artists have a new opportunity to show off their works–the University Libraries are sponsoring “Student Art in the Library,” a juried exhibition that will showcase only student art.
“This is a great opportunity for students to exhibit their artwork in a professional venue,” Jennifer Beals, Art and Architecture Librarian, said. Students who are interested in pursuing graduate work or professional positions in the arts need exhibit experience in their resumes, Beals continued.
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