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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

End of an era

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. I understand and support the reasons [...]

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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

We have the power

Well technically my new house does. The floors are done and the electricity is on and working.
Stephanie has updates. The wood floors look nice. I’m really pleased with how the floors turned out.
More Lisa birthday pictures.
The library reorg picked up steam yesterday, some new appointments have been made and searches are [...]

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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

In what appears to be a monthly event…

…I’m blogging. The house is still under construction but we’re really close to being done now. Stephanie has updates.
Lisa is now two, pictures are here.
Work is still busy, the library reorganization (and resulting confusion continues)…

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Monday, November 19th, 2007

More on the sad state of Hoskins Library

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 f trying to fix the foundation (which has been tried before).
Be sure to check out the video that goes with the article. Some [...]

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Friday, October 19th, 2007

Hoskins Library: A Secret History

Knoxville’s Metro Pulse weekly paper has a story on UT’s Hoskins Library which used to be the main library. It now houses archives and special collections among other things and has fallen into disrepair.

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Written by Dan Greene, web designer and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two (more...)

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