September 2007 News

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Exhibit and Film Series:
Working for Democracy in the South and Appalachia - The Highlander Research and Education Center

The University of Tennessee Libraries is hosting a documentary series and exhibit to teach the university and local communities about the Highlander Research and Education Center, as part of the Highlanders 75th anniversary.

The exhibit, on display in Hodges Library outside the reference room, was designed by Sarah Lowe, associate professor of art, and Paul Chinetti, a senior in graphic design. Six films about social justice in the South will also be shown throughout the fall, in the Documentaries in the Library series. The first documentary will be shown on September 18.

Film: You Got to Move

7 pm Tuesday September 18
Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library
Discussion leader: Pam McMichael
Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center

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Baker Center Events: Wednesday, September 12

Noon: Health Care and Other Unfunded Liabilities
A videoconference held in the Commons Practice Presentation Room
The Heritage Foundation and the Brookings Institute will feature two points of view on this pressing issue

4 pm: Religion’s Role in Public Life
An interactive forum held in the Culture Corner, Hodges Library
What should the role of religion be in America? Share your opinions with UT professors Robert Bast, Rosalind Hackett David Reidy, Charles Reynolds and Otis Stephens.

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Constitution Day: Monday, September 17

11 am-4 pm: Sign Your Constitution!
Pedestrian Walkway outside Hodges
Take an opportunity to remember the foundations upon which this country was built by signing a copy of the Constitution.

1 pm-4pm: Film Series
A Conversation on the Constitution: Judicial Independence and Our Constitution: A Conversation, hosted by Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Stephen Breyer and Anthony Kennedy will be shown throughout the afternoon.

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Know Your Copy Rights: Monday, September 24

12-1 pm, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Sequoyah Room, 2nd Floor

Mary Ann Russell of the UT Research Foundation will present UT Intellectual Property Policy and Copyright and Linda Phillips, University Libraries, will present How to Use Works When Teaching.

Moderated by Deb Haines, UTCVM, Instructional Resources. Please direct inquiries to Ann Viera, Pendergrass Ag Vet Med Library 974-9015 or annviera@utk.edu.

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Writers in the Library
@ Lindsay Young Auditorium - Hodges Library, Sept. 24, 7 p.m.

Barbara Bogue will present Writers are Critics Too: James Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux at 7 pm in the Lindsay Young Auditorium.

Bogue will also present Writing Outside the Margins: Creative Writing and the Community at noon in the University Center Crest Room. More...

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Film Movement: Tuesday, September 25

Men At Work
(Comedy, Iran. 75 minutes)

Four old friends encounter a strange and enormous rock while driving back from a failed skiing trip. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope. More...

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Great Moments in American Life, History and Culture:
An Essay Contest

Students can win up to $300 in this essay contest, sponsored by the University Libraries as part of our 100th anniversary as a Federal Depository Library. More...

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Biology Nights at the Library: Wednesday, September 26

Typhoid Mary
6:30-8 pm, Lindsay Young Auditorium, Hodges Library

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Banned Books Week: September 29-October 6

An annual celebration of the freedom to read. See our display of banned book sat the Hot Topics/Cool Books table just inside the reference room, 135 Hodges Library.

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Culture Corner Exhibit

An exhibit about this falls’ Life of the Mind selection, In the Wake of the Plague.

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Workshops & Instruction

Improve your productivity in the library by attending our workshops and Studio short courses. Designed to make you a better student! Register for workshops at www.lib.utk.edu/instruction/workshop

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Music Library featured in News Sentinel

Connie Steigenga, daytime supervisor of the George F. DeVine Music Library, was interviewed as part of a Knoxville News Sentinel article about Ruckus, a music downloading service. Read more here.

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New Databases Under Review

Your comments are important in our decision to acquire any new databases for the libraries.

To see which databases are currently being evaluated, please visit http://www.lib.utk.edu/~colldev/test/testpp.html

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Libraries Hours

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All UT Libraries events are free and open to the public

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