Thirteen librarians form the Humanities Group at UT Libraries. Each librarian serves as a subject liaison to one or more of UT's academic departments or programs in the humanities.

Subject librarians are available to assist the University's students, faculty, and staff with research, instruction, and collection development needs. Let us know how we can help you!

Molly Royse, Humanities Coordinator

NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS

• Writer's in the Library, Fall 2007
  The University of Tennessee Libraries is pleased to announce that Knoxville poet and musician RB Morris will continue as the Jack E. Reese Writer in Residence for the 2007-2008 academic year. Upcoming Writer's in the Library events include:
  9/24 -- Barbara Bogue, author and assistant professor of creative writing at Ball State University
  10/1 -- Wendy Brenner, author and director of the MFA program at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and Kathy Pories, senior editor at Algonquin Books
  10/29 -- Michelle Boisseau, professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and associate editor of the BkMk Press
  For more information about the September program and the Writer's in the Library Program for fall '07, click here.

• Medieval and Renaissance Semester
  Fall 2007 will be Medieval and Renaissance semester at UT, prominently featuring programming developed by UT's Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. For information about upcoming events, see the semester's homepage.

• New Look to the New Books Page
  The "New Items in the UT Libraries" page has been revised and enhanced. New titles to the Libraries' collections are organized by collections (Music Library, Media Center, etc.) and by subject areas/LC call numbers such as fine arts, languages, and literature. RSS feeds are available. Most of the "New Items" feeds contain items added to the catalog in the last 30 days; a few, such as the Media Center, are for a longer time period. When the files are updated, which happens once a week, items older than 30 days will drop off and new items will appear at the top.

• Fall 2007 Library Workshops
  Offerings for the fall schedule of library workshops include sessions on citation analysis using Web of Science's citation search, streaming audio databases,and EndNote bibliographic management software. For a complete listing, see the fall schedule.

• Student Art in the Library
  The Student Art in the Library Juried Exhibition for Summer/Fall 2007 is now on view in the Hodges Library first floor Reference Room through November. For more information, go to the Student Art in the Library homepage.

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• The Libraries' e-journals page has recently been revised and enhanced. The page includes easy access to over 19,000 e-journals to which the Libraries subscribe. In addition to title searching, one can now search by a category such as "Art and Humanities" and subcategories such as "Literature." Humanities e-journal titles include Art History, German Studies Review, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Studies in French Cinema, and Journal of Religion.

• Electronic access is available to a variety of books and literary works via the databases listed under "E-Books" on the Libraries' database page. Databases include Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) . Together, these resources provide access to the digital images of works published from 1475-1800. Access is now availalbe to EEBO and ECCO titles via the Libraries' online catalog.

• Databases on Trial:
  Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Periodicals
  This database is described as "a definitive online resource for research and study about Lincoln's presidency and the events leading up to and throughout the American Civil War years, as presented by the media of the period." The trial expires September 30, 2007. Click here to access the trial and for more information about databases on trial.

• For up-to-date information about the Libraries' collection of electronic resources, check "Electronic Resources News," a library news channel created to provide users with news and information about databases, electronic journals and other electronic resources at the UT Libraries.

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Several humanities databases have been added in recent months to the Libraries' subscriptions. Your subject librarian is available to give individualized or class presentations on these resources.

• 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
  

• Acta Sanctorum
  

• African American Music Reference
  

• Black Studies Center
  

• Caribbean Literature
  

• Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
  

• Oxford Scholarship Online
  

• Sabin Americana
  

Click here for a complete list of new databases and trial subscriptions.

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HUMANITIES ENDOWMENTS

The University of Tennessee Libraries benefit greatly from a variety of humanities endowments, which have been established by individuals committed to enhancing the Libraries' collections. Humanties Subject Librarians are responsible for the management of these endowments and for selecting library material in accordance with the terms of the endowment bequests.

• Lindsay Young Endowment
  The Lindsay Young Endowment Fund was established in 1989 "for special acquisitions that will make a qualitative difference in the collection of the Libraries" in the humanities. Click here for a list of the titles selected for purchase in 2007.

  For more information about the Libraries' endowments, click here.

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There are several UT Libraries' collections, projects, and programs which may have special interest for scholars and researchers in the humanities.

• The Center for Children's & Young Adult Literature
  The Center works to promote the use of literature in the education and lives of children and young adults by providing workshops for teachers and librarians, and sponsoring talks by authors and illustrators which are open to the public.

• Digital Library Center
  The Digital Library Center's (DLC) webpage provides links to the Libraries' digital collections.
  

• Arrowmont Archives Project
  UT Libraries has received a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to digitize the archives at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. The archives inlude materal documenting the history of Pi Beta Phi Elementary School and later Arrowmont activities in Gatlinburg. The result of the two-year project will be a searchable Internet-based collection of digitized items accompanied by textual essays. Librarians Anne Bridges and Ken Wise are the primary investigators for the project. For more information, click here.

• Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project
  This project involves the development of a regional collection, which will organize, preserve, and make accessible print, manuscript, visual, audio, and electronic materials of the Great Smoky Mountains region of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. In addition, a bibliography is being created that will be the first comprehensive, annotated bibliography of the region's non-technical material.

• Tennessee Authors Past & Present
  The goal of this project is to create an encyclopedia of information about the many writers who have called Tennessee home.

• Writers in the Library Series
  This program provides a forum for Knoxville-area writers and for students and faculty in UT's Creative Writing Program. The series is sponsored by the University of Tennessee Libraries and the Creative Writing Program of the UT English Department.