Libraries

The Centaur at Volos

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Centaur skeleton in a display case
The Centaur at Volos as it was displayed in Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

I’ve always been a fan of the Centaur. It was there on the first floor of Hodges Library when I was a graduate student, when I worked there on the 6th floor in Systems, and remained there long after I left to go to the College of Communication and Information / School of Information Sciences.…

End of an era

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Hodges Library no longer has a reference desk. We had a wake for it yesterday afternoon. Day to day reference questions have been moved upstairs to the Commons desk.

In fact Hodges no longer has a reference department. It’s been split into Integrated User Services, Research Services, and Research Collections.…

Doug Raber – Public Library Director

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Doug Raber, a friend and former advisor of mine at both Tennessee and Missouri, is leaving academia to be the public library director in Ferndale, Michigan.

Best of luck Doug, dress warmly. :-)…

More on the sad state of Hoskins Library

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The Knoxville News Sentinel has a story on Hoskins Library. The damage over there is pretty serious. If you ask me they should just tear down the Kefauver wing instead of trying to fix the foundation (which has been tried before).…

Library Technology Services

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I’ve changed departments here at Hodges, from Outreach to Library Technology Services, a.k.a Systems. So I have a bigger cube and an office that my cell phone works in, but sadly no pay raise.

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Tourists in the Library

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Saw this article in the Univ. of Tennessee student newspaper titled “Library not a place for frivolity“. It’s mildly satirical (in my opinion) but raises some valid points. For example, “why do you come to the library at midnight to get on Facebook?”…