Thanks and kudos to Comcast and the UT Graduate Student Senate! Comcast sponsored and the Graduate Student Senate organized the 17th annual “Love Your Libraries” Fun Run on February 21. The 5K race (and the alternate fun walk) through the heart of the UT campus are held each year to benefit the University of Tennessee … Continued
The Libraries’ Storage Reading Room in Hoskins Library (1401 Cumberland Ave.) is now open for both walk-in and “by appointment” access, Monday – Friday. Many older issues of periodicals and virtually all microfilm (with the exception of Tennessee newspapers and serials) are housed in the Storage unit. When UTK users need access to several volumes … Continued
The Student Art in the Library exhibit for Spring 2009 is now on view in the Reference Reading Room, 135 Hodges Library. Student Art in the Library is a juried exhibition hosted by the University Libraries. Works submitted by currently enrolled UTK undergraduate and graduate students (whether art majors or non-majors) are judged by a … Continued
Funding is still available for UT faculty and graduate students who need to pay article-processing charges to publish in open access journals. A pilot program sponsored by the Office of Research and the University Libraries has committed $20,000 to pay fees charged by open access publishers. Open access publications are peer-reviewed like traditional publications. Benefits … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries Newfound Press and the University of Tennessee Press are partners in producing print-on-demand copies of online books. Newfound Press expands access to specialized works by publishing online books, journals, and multimedia for general and scholarly audiences. All Newfound Press publications are open access, freely available to anyone via the internet. … Continued
The Special Collections Reading Room will relocate to accommodate upcoming renovations in The Kefauver Wing of Hoskins Library. The Reading Room will be closed from December 15-26, 2008, as materials and staff members are moved. The new, temporary home of the Reading Room will be the Audiger Room in the southeast corner of the second … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries Digital Library Initiatives department and The Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project are proud to unveil the Thompson Brothers Digital Photograph Collection, an online collection of stunning images of the Great Smoky Mountains. Prominent Knoxville-based photographers in the 1920s through the 1940s, brothers Jim and Robin Thompson began their careers at … Continued
The Elsevier publishing company recently sponsored an online survey for a study on the Values, Outcomes, and Return on Investment on University Investment in the Library. The study is conducted in conjunction with the University of Illinois and nine other university libraries world wide. The study is also a partnership with the School of Information … Continued
The following article ran on Tenn-Share’s website (www.tenn-share.org/resources/award) and featured the University of Tennessee Libraries’ own Tracy Luna, the winner of this year’s Resource Sharing Award: Tracy Luna, Lending Supervisor at the University of Tennessee Libraries in Knoxville, is the recipient of the 2008 Tennessee Resource Sharing Award. A “veteran” of UT’s interlibrary loan department, … Continued
The University Libraries and Office of Research have launched a pilot program, Open Publishing Support Fund for faculty and graduate students to request funding for “article processing charges” that support open access publishers such as the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and BioMedCentral. Program web pages at http://www.lib.utk.edu/openpub/ include the program announcement and description, an … Continued