Hodges Library staff will be hard at work this month moving microfilm collections in Periodicals room 220, Documents and Microforms room 120, and on the 6th floor. These collections are moving to prepare for an expansion of the Commons. More moving and some construction will be underway in Hodges this summer to prepare for the … Continued
Starting March 30th, 2006 there will be no fines charged for late books, monographs, serials or periodicals. The UT Libraries will no longer charge the 25 cent per day fine, however, if materials are 21 days overdue the Libraries will declare the material lost and the borrower will be billed for the replacement of the … Continued
The Good News: No More Fines for Many of Your Overdue Library Materials Regular overdue fines for books, monographs, serials, periodicals and some other items are now a thing of the past. After March 30, the UT Libraries will no longer charge the $.25-a-day fine for most materials that students, faculty and staff keep beyond … Continued
Chancellor will discuss Thomas Freidman’s best-selling book UT Chancellor Loren Crabtree will be at Hodges Library on Tuesday, April 18 to talk about The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman’s bestselling book on globalization. The discussion begins at 12:30 pm and will be held in the Culture Corner of the first floor galleria and is free … Continued
Loretta Parham of the Atlanta University Center to discuss diversity in libraries Tuesday, April 11 at 3 pm Room 605, Hodges Library Loretta Parham, Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Robert W. Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center, will present A Gift of Difference in the Academic Library at Hodges Library in room … Continued
University Library is named for former UT Professor A relief sculpture of English Professor John C. Hodges was recently installed at the Melrose entrance of Hodges Library. Dr. Hodges taught at UT for 41 years and wrote the Harbrace Handbook, the most widely used college textbook ever printed in America. Hodges Library is named in … Continued
There is support at University of Tennessee taking steps to protect your rights to your intellectual property. This is the text of a resolution now before the Faculty Senate. Simple steps you can take to protect your work are below. Faculty Senate Resolution on Scholarly Publishing Draft: March 15, 2006 WHEREAS the faculty of the … Continued
A useful guide for searching the UC Davis website has just been published in Journal of Veterinary Medical Education. The citation from PubMed is below. If you need to search for alternatives to using animals In teaching protocols, this article explains exactly how to do it. NOTE: JVME is available for free until May 15th … Continued
According to researchers from the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, drinking Concord grape juice appears to reverse the course of neuronal and behavioral aging in rats, an effect that is proposed to be due to the complex mix of polyphenols. http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=66022
Author John Wranovics to speak Monday, April 17 at the University Club John Wranovics, author of Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay, will discuss his book at Writers in the Library on Monday, April 17 at 7 pm. The event will be held at the University … Continued