Okay, so UT doesn’t own the book and doesn’t provide access to the e-book . . . But I know it’s out there! Why don’t I see it among my search results? Download a PDF of this research hint here. [clear] [clear] Click Expand My Results to retrieve an even larger universe … Continued
Over the Winter Holiday the UT Libraries will transition to a new cloud-hosted “backend” for its integrated library system. Beginning at 8 p.m. on December 11, there will be a brief disruption of Library Express delivery, pick-up, and scan-on-demand services. This past semester we launched a major upgrade to the Libraries’ discovery portal. By the … Continued
On Monday, August 18, our new One Search goes live! We’re launching a major upgrade to the Libraries’ discovery portal: the search box in the middle of library homepages will yield exponentially more results than in the past. Now includes articles. One Search results include journal articles. Previously, articles could be found only by searching … Continued
Last year, the Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library added 3D printing to the technology they provide to library users. 3D printing lets designers rapidly turn their ideas into plastic prototypes. Engineering students from the College of Agriculture are using the AgVet library’s 3D printer to test their design ideas. The library’s IT technologist, Richie … Continued
The UT Libraries’ Map Collection is relocating, making room for more study space on the ground floor of Hodges Library. Map Services closes May 6 to begin preparing for the move. Over the summer, the remainder of the map collection will be moved to new quarters in the James D. Hoskins Library (1401 Cumberland Avenue). … Continued
There’s nothing like the serendipity of browsing the stacks and discovering that one book that is the perfect reference on your topic. Well, actually, there is. Now there’s virtual browsing in the Libraries’ online catalog. If the search box on the Libraries’ homepage leads you to a promising title, you can browse adjacent titles in … Continued
Citing references in your research paper? The easiest way to format a citation in the prescribed style may be to grab the citation from the Libraries’ catalog. If UT owns the item and there’s a record in the catalog, you can access a formatted citation from the brief record display (results from using the search … Continued
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is one of the newest members of HathiTrust, a partnership of more than 80 major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. As HathiTrust members, UT students, faculty, and staff gain: • Online access … Continued
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville has become the newest member of HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org), a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. Launched in 2008, HathiTrust has a growing membership currently comprising more than eighty partners. Over … Continued
Faculty and students who publish their scholarly work online in Trace, the University of Tennessee’s digital repository, are getting a lot of attention. A million hits in the past year, as a matter of fact! Downloads from Trace surpassed the two million mark this month, just a little over a year after crossing the one-million-download … Continued