PowerNotes is a great way to gather, organize, and keep track of your online research. The UT Libraries has purchased a trial subscription that gives members of the UT Knoxville community free access to PowerNotes. To get started, visit powernotes.com and download/install the PowerNotes extension into your Chrome browser. Create a free account using your … Continued
On Saturday, February 17, library users will be required to swipe a UT ID card for admittance to Hodges Library. Entrance/exit will be restricted to the Melrose Avenue (2nd floor) entrance. Hodges Library will be open on the regular schedule, 10 a.m. to midnight.
This year, Knoxville’s Big Read and UT’s Life of the Mind freshman reading program prompted hundreds of Knoxvillians to read and discuss Station Eleven, a novel by Emily St. John Mandel. An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries has published a collection of essays by participants in Knoxville’s Big Read of A Lesson Before Dying. In 2016, a community reading program brought Knoxvillians together to read and discuss A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines’s novel about a black man who is sentenced to death for a murder … Continued
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday, February 9 *** The Big Orange STEM Saturday (BOSS) planning committee and the UT Libraries invite university faculty, staff, student leaders, and members of the East Tennessee scientific community to participate in the 7th annual BOSS conference at UT’s John C. Hodges Library. BOSS is a free conference presented annually … Continued
-UPDATED JAN 17, 11:30 a.m.- Hodges Library remains open and branch libraries, Pendergrass and DeVine, have reopened. All libraries will operate normal hours until further notice. The Library Express will not make deliveries today, and the Storage Reading Room at Hoskins will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. -UPDATED JAN 16, … Continued
The Office of the Provost, Student Government Association, and University Libraries set an ambitious goal for AY 2017-18: Save students $1 Million by increasing adoptions of open textbooks. Today, we’re announcing an additional $127,100 savings for students! Added to the $552,200 reported two weeks ago, Vols are now saving a total of $679,300 thanks to … Continued
As part of UT’s week-long Homecoming festivities, you are invited to the grand opening of the “Rocky Top” Exhibit at Hodges Library. The exhibit will feature the original handwritten manuscript written by songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant in 1967 at the Gatlinburg Inn. Special guests for the evening will be Del and Dane Bryant, sons … Continued
Students are concerned about the rising costs of textbooks. Open textbooks can remedy some of the impact on student budgets. Open textbooks are openly-licensed works that are freely available to everyone. UT faculty are beginning to adopt open textbooks in their courses, and the Student Government Association, with the help of the Office of the … Continued
[lead]Two Thousand Seventeen marks the thirtieth anniversary of the John C. Hodges Library. Join us October 23 to celebrate.[/lead] [lead]We’ll begin our celebration with a Street Fair in the Commons.[/lead] From 3 to 5 p.m., Monday, October 23, “Main Street” in the open-space Commons on the second floor of Hodges Library will host “retro” arcade … Continued