Friends: Join Us to Host Graduate Students

Each year the Libraries host an open house specifically for graduate students. It’s a great opportunity for students to meet the librarian for their subject area, learn about the library services that will support them, and get to know library faculty and staff. Last year the Library Friends hosted a table at the open house … Continued

Free Movies on Demand, Anywhere on Campus

Students in the dorms — or, for that matter, anywhere on campus — can now stream movies to their laptops, on demand. The free movie channel (movies.utk.edu) is available to anyone, as long as they’re on campus to access the wireless network. Each month, a selection of twenty feature films is available on demand from … Continued

Donor Spotlight: Alan Heilman

Alan S. Heilman, retired UT professor of botany, devoted 37 years to teaching generations of young biology students at UT. He devoted even more years to recording the miraculous structures of plants in his extraordinary photographs. Heilman decided to partner with the UT Libraries to preserve and share his photographs of flowering plants, ferns, mosses, … Continued

Love Your Libraries 5K Race, March 2

The UT Graduate Student Senate is proud to announce the 21st annual Love Your Libraries 5K Race to benefit the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries. We hope you will join other UT library supporters for this event. The 5K race will take place Saturday, March 2, 2013. Registration is from 7:45 to 8:45 a.m. in … Continued

Befriend the UT Libraries; Support Our Future Leaders

If educating the next generation ranks high on your list of cherished causes, you might wish to join the University of Tennessee Library Friends. Within higher education there is much discussion of furthering “student success.” Indeed, new funding guidelines for Tennessee colleges and universities are predicated on measures of student success such as on-time graduation. … Continued

UT Libraries Adds its 3-Millionth Volume, A Cherokee Spelling Book

The University of Tennessee Libraries now boasts a collection of 3-million volumes. The university community and Library Friends gathered to celebrate the Libraries’ 3-millionth-volume milestone at an event in the John C. Hodges Library on the evening of March 26. The volume chosen to represent the 3-millionth-volume benchmark in the Libraries’ history is TSVLVKI SQCLVCLV, … Continued