The UT community is invited to short presentations about UT’s evolving virtual library every Wednesday from noon to 1:00. Bring your lunch to Hodges Library 605 to participate in the following discussions about ways to increase efficient searching, add interactive features to library web pages, and retrieve high-quality scholarly content. February 25 What’s Primo? [Answer: … Continued
Renowned poet Paul Zimmer will read at Writers in the Library on Monday, February 16, 7 p.m., in the John C. Hodges Library auditorium. Zimmer worked for forty-five years in book publishing and sales, heading university presses at Georgia, Iowa, and Pittsburgh. After working hours, he still found time to write a significant body of … Continued
Learn about opportunities in the Peace Corps from Peace Corps Volunteers and staff: Agricultural Opportunities in the Peace Corps GlobeTalk Information Session Wednesday, February 11 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. Pendergrass Library A113 Veterinary Teaching Hospital 2407 Joe Johnson Drive UT Ag Campus Help farmers market their products. Develop alternatives to wood as a fuel source. … Continued
Get fit in February and support a great cause at the 17th annual “Love Your Libraries” Fun Run, sponsored by Comcast and hosted by the University of Tennessee Graduate Student Senate. The 5K race and fun walk will take place Saturday, February 21, 2009. Registration is from 6:45 to 8:00 a.m. in Circle Park, and … Continued
Don’t miss the launch of Marilyn Kallet’s new poetry collection at the first UT Writers in the Library reading of the spring semester. Dr. Kallet will perform poems from her new collection, Packing Light: New and Selected Poems (Black Widow Press, 2009) on Monday, February 2, at 7 p.m. in the Hodges Library auditorium on … Continued
Barack Obama Swearing-in Ceremony January 20, 2009 11:00 am – Noon John C. Hodges Library Lindsay Young Auditorium & Commons Practice Presentation Room You are invited to Hodges Library to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as the 44th President of the United States. Join us to witness this historic moment, the swearing-in of our first African … Continued
The University Libraries, its Newfound Press, the Office of Information Technology Innovative Technology Center, and the Department of English will provide local access for UT faculty and graduate students to the 2008-2009 UCLA Mellon Seminar, “What is(n’t) Digital Humanities?” Seminars will begin Wednesday, November 5 from 5-8 p.m., and follow monthly through June 2009. The … Continued
For some Tennesseans, the Holocaust is more than a tragic chapter of history; it is a personal journey of pain and survival. Learn the stories of these fascinating local men and women at a special lecture by UT School of Journalism and Electronic Media Associate Professor Rob Heller. With the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, Dr. Heller … Continued
From the loving intimacy of family life to the horrors of Hilter’s reign of terror in Europe, a new exhibit at Hodges Library will examine both beauty and brutality through the brief life of Kitty Weichherz, a Slovak girl growing up in the 1930s and early 1940s. In Her Father’s Eyes: A Slovak Childhood in … Continued
…and here a few scorched teeth/from some martyred, unknown saint./The sky was a scroll of pain/— each star a sacred name!/I saw through time in that light./But I turned and blood rained down/and I turned and dipped and drank – from “The Death Mazurka” by Charles Fishman. Noted poet Charles Fishman will read poems on … Continued