A makerspace is coming to Hodges Library. What would you like to see included in the new work space? Makerspaces provide tools and space where people with shared interests gather to work on projects while trading ideas and knowledge. There are makerspaces for arts and crafts, and makerspaces for rapid prototyping of new products, just … 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
The library currently has a trial for Mango Languages, an interactive learning tool that covers many languages and dialects for students, staff, and faculty to learn at their leisure. From Arabic to Yiddish, learners will be taken through the basics of conversation in the given language for a quick and simple way to learn. The … Continued
Writing papers got you down? Not sure how or where to start your research? Join us for a “Writing Blitz” in Hodges Library on Thursday, April 19, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., in Room 213. Work surrounded by others with the same goal in mind: FINISH THOSE PAPERS! From pencils to laptops to citation … Continued
On Thursday, April 12, poet and critic Kevin Young will read as part of an event sponsored by the Department of English Creative Writing Program. Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Poetry Editor of the New Yorker, and the author of eleven books of poetry and … Continued
On Monday, March 26, poet Ali Cobby Eckermann will read as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet from Adelaide, Australia who is the author of seven books, including the verse novel Ruby Moonlight, the poetry collections Inside My Mother and Love Dreaming & Other … Continued
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
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