The Medbery Makerspace in 209 Hodges Library welcomes all students, faculty, and staff in the UT Knoxville community to create, draft, dream, and make. Tools provided fall into the general categories of arts and crafts, textiles, and fabrication (3D printing, Cricut vinyl cutter, button makers). An online guide provides additional information. To use the makerspace’s … Continued
What library services and resources are important to our community, and how successfully do the libraries deliver them? Many library users will soon receive an email invitation from Louis Becker, Assessment Programs Librarian for UT Libraries, to participate in an online survey designed to answer those questions. On February 15th, invitations will go out to random samples of faculty, undergraduates, graduate … Continued
The Beauford Delaney Papers, held at the University of Tennessee Libraries, is now available to researchers, students, and instructors. The Beauford Delaney Papers consists of family, personal, and professional correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks and notebooks, artwork, exhibition material, and biographical records created or collected by the Knoxville-born, African-American artist Beauford Delaney (1901–1979). He is widely regarded … Continued
Rising from the Ashes: The Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires in Memory and Art, a 2022 publication of the University of Tennessee Press, has won a Mary Ellen LoPresti Publication Award. The LoPresti Publication Award, presented annually by the Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America, recognizes excellence in art publications in the … Continued
Thank you to everyone who supported UT Libraries during the Big Orange Give campaign. The University of Tennessee received a record 11,461 gifts on the 11th anniversary of this annual day of giving. One-hundred and thirteen of these gifts were designated for UT Libraries, totaling $22,640. Generous donors like you allow us to continue to … Continued
On this seventh anniversary of the deadly wildfire that ravaged Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains in 2016, UT Libraries invites the public to commemorate that catastrophic event by exploring the Libraries’ oral history project that documents the impact of the wildfires. On November 23, 2016, an uncontained wilderness fire on the summit of Chimney … Continued
The Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library has digitized its entire collection of University of Tennessee theses and dissertations, making the work of UT graduates visible to scholars around the globe. Theses and dissertations in veterinary medicine and agriculture disciplines that were formerly housed at Pendergrass Library are now available online through TRACE, UT Knoxville’s … Continued
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers can apply for funds to archive and share their data. The Data Archiving and Sharing Fund assists UT Knoxville researchers in openly archiving and preserving data sets by providing up to $250 toward depositing a data set in the data repository Dryad. The fund is supported in full by the University … Continued
The costumed human who portrays the Vols’ beloved canine mascot at sports events has undergone many makeovers over the years. Smokey’s earliest human namesakes certainly looked nothing like a Bluetick Coonhound! The canine Smokey himself joined the team in 1953. After some deliberation, the UT Pep Club settled on a hound as the most appropriate … Continued
The art of Knoxville-born artist Joseph Delaney is the featured display in the Special Collections Reading Room, first floor of Hodges Library. The exhibit includes figure studies from a Delaney sketchbook, photographs of the artist, exhibit catalogs, and published examples of Delaney’s work. Most materials are from the Manuscripts collections held by UT’s Betsey B. … Continued