On the morning of July 9, 1925, while the principal players gathered in Dayton, Tennessee for what would become known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, the executive committee of the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association convened at the City National Bank in Knoxville to discuss a proposal to invite the attorneys, news correspondents, and dignitaries … Continued
Robert Morgan, the acclaimed author of Gap Creek and The Road from Gap Creek, will speak about the impact of Willma Dykeman’s fiction and non-fiction in his own work at the beginning of a two-day tribute to Dykeman on April 7 and 8. The events are sponsored by the Library Society of the University of … Continued
As long as there have been books, readers have been writing in the margins. An exhibit of rare books at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s John C. Hodges Library contains examples of marginalia from over the centuries. The display bears witness to the reader’s abiding urge to respond to the author’s words or otherwise personalize … Continued
Sam Venable, humorist and long-time columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel, will be the guest speaker and honoree Thursday, October 15, at the University of Tennessee’s John C. Hodges Library. Venable recently donated his papers to the UT Libraries. The Library Society of the University of Tennessee invites the public to spend an evening with … Continued
Two days into the fall semester, the Libraries held another highly successful Open House for Graduate Students. Graduate students are intensive users of the university library, and their research needs are very different from those of undergraduates. In addition to their roles as students, they often work as teaching assistants. So their demands on library … Continued
Construction begins soon on a new gallery in Hodges Library that will feature interpretive exhibits of our special collections. Special Collections acquires and preserves manuscripts, rare books, maps, photographs, and other unique research materials. Rotating displays of items from our unique collections are always on view in the Special Collections reading room, 121 Hodges Library. … Continued
New modes of digital scholarship have transformed the academic librarian’s role. Librarians traditionally organize, preserve, and connect researchers to the products of research and scholarly inquiry. Today, librarians pursue those same goals in nontraditional ways. At the UT Libraries, twenty-first-century services for university researchers are gathered under the title Scholars’ Collaborative. Our librarians are proficient … Continued
Unique among the thousands of maps held by the University Libraries is a ten-foot-long plaster relief map of the state of Tennessee. Lettered on the map is its provenance: A Relief Map of Tennessee Colored to Show the Typical Soils . . . Compiled by the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station . . . Modeled by … Continued
One Saturday each spring the UT Libraries holds a forum for students who are considering careers in science, technology, engineering, or math. Our Big Orange STEM Symposium gives middle school, high school, and freshmen university students a chance to meet current students and researchers in STEM fields, and to learn about unique resources available to … Continued
Special Collections continually seeks new areas on which to focus acquisitions. We look for topics with regional significance that have potential for broad impact. One such area is the ancient art of moonshining. Bootlegging has long been the subject of storytelling in the hills of the Appalachian Mountains. The illegal distillation of spirits was a … Continued