Graduate students are invited to an Open House at the library. OPEN HOUSE FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Friday, August 24, 1:00-2:30 pm John C. Hodges Library First Floor Galleria • Learn how the library supports your research and teaching. • Meet your department’s subject librarian and learn more about resources in your field. • Learn about … Continued
The waters of Tennessee are home to about three hundred species of fishes, the most diverse collection of freshwater fauna of any state in the country. Ecologists David Etnier and Wayne Starnes have documented Tennessee’s diversity of ichthyoid species in The Fishes of Tennessee, first published by the University of Tennessee Press in 1993. To … Continued
The final Writers in the Library event of the academic year will feature readings by student winners of the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Prizes. Readings from the winning works will take place in the John C. Hodges Library auditorium on Monday, April 16, at 7:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the … Continued
It’s almost time for final exams, and students are under a lot of stress. The UT libraries are trying to help students relax and recharge. During final exams this Spring Semester, library-sponsored “De-Stress for Success” events will allow students to slow down, take a break from studying, and enjoy some free and fun activities. A … Continued
Bernie Reilly, president of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), will lead a forum on the future of research collections in North America on Monday, April 23, 3:00 p.m. in the Hodges Library auditorium. “The Center for Research Libraries Faces the Future” will address the role of the library in supporting research in the digital … Continued
Jesse Graves and Don Johnson will read their poetry at Writers in the Library on Monday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in UT’s Hodges Library auditorium. Jesse Graves’ new collection of poems, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, won the 2012 Weatherford Award for Poetry from the Appalachian Studies Association. His poems have appeared in Prairie … Continued
Authors Edward Francisco and Linda Parsons Marion will read at the March 12 Writers in the Library, 7 p.m. in UT’s Hodges Library auditorium. Edward Francisco is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and scholar. He is the author of two novels, Till Shadows Flee and The Dealmaker. His poetry collections include (Lie)fe Boat (winner of … Continued
Novelist Christopher Hebert will read at UT’s Writers in the Library on Monday, March 5, at 7 p.m. in the Hodges Library Auditorium. Christopher Hebert is the author of The Boiling Season (HarperCollins, 2012). The novel is set on an unnamed Caribbean island engulfed in political turmoil. The narrator escapes to a remote and idyllic … Continued
Visit the Libraries’ Student Art in the Library juried exhibition, now on display in 135 Hodges Library. Artworks in the exhibit were selected by a committee of library staff from many wonderful and worthy submissions, each the work of a UT student. First-place and second-place winners were awarded cash prizes. Artworks will remain on display … Continued
Novelist Josh Weil will read at UT’s Writers in the Library, Monday, February 27, 7:00 p.m., in the Hodges Library Auditorium. Josh Weil was born in the Appalachian Mountains of rural Virginia to which he returned to write the novellas in his first book, The New Valley. A New York Times Editors Choice, The New … Continued