Pendergrass Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine Library reopened at 1p.m. on 8/21/18 and will close at 5p.m. Regular hours resume 8/22/18. Photos and updates to come. Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library was temporarily closed for renovations on May 9. Over the summer, library services will be available in the nearby Brehm Animal Science Building, Room … Continued
The Student Government Association has named the UT Libraries their SGA Campus Partner of the Year for 2017-18. Librarian Rachel Caldwell accepted the award at SGA’s Transition Ceremony on April 26. The UT Libraries was recognized for collaborating with SGA to encourage the use of open educational resources (OER) in university courses. Open textbooks, one … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries has acquired a new teaching tool, a 3D anatomy table. The touch-screen Anatomage Table is an innovative approach to teaching anatomy. Digital cadavers allow students to visualize thousands of anatomical structures and to perform virtual 3D dissections exactly as they would on a real cadaver. The Anatomage Table is equipped … Continued
Left to right: Morgan Hartgrove, Student Body President; honorees Judy Day, Stan Guffey, Michael Berry, Vasilios Alexiades; Maddie Stephens, 2018-19 SGA Student Services Director. The Student Government Association (SGA) held an awards ceremony in Hodges Library on Monday to recognize UT instructors who use open educational resources in their courses. The winners of this year’s … Continued
Open educational resources are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching and learning. Open textbooks can be read online for free. By adopting open textbooks in their courses, UT instructors have saved students hundreds of thousands of dollars this past year. Last year, the Student Government Association … Continued
The UT Libraries is collecting essays and other creative responses to Station Eleven, last fall’s Life of the Mind reading, for a book to be published by Newfound Press, the UT Libraries’ online imprint. The Libraries welcomes all submissions that can be represented in a printed publication — essays, poems, works of art, even humor. … Continued
Want to see your work in print? The UT Libraries invites FYS 100 students to submit the assignments they created last fall in response to Emily St. John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven. The UT Libraries is collecting essays and other creative responses to Station Eleven for a book to be published this coming fall … Continued
High school, middle school, and early college students can explore careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Big Orange STEM Saturday (BOSS), April 7, on the University of Tennessee campus. Students — and their parents — are invited to attend the mini-conference from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the John C. Hodges Library, … Continued
The singer/songwriter duo Count This Penny were the first artists to partner with the UT Libraries to create works of art to celebrate our unique collections. Amanda and Allen Rigell (aka Count This Penny) composed two songs inspired by materials in the Wilma Dykeman and James R. Stokely Jr. Papers, which are preserved by and … Continued