The stained glass window hanging inside Hodges Library on the ground level on Volunteer Boulevard was the gift of the class of 1995. Morna Livingston, an assistant professor in the School of Architecture, was commissioned to design the panel, and she worked on the design, which depicts Ayres Hall, for more than a year.  The … Continued

A Starbucks shop replaced the coffee and snack machines (but not the soft drink machines) in the 24-hour student lounge in Hodges Library on September 1, 2001, and Barbara Dewey, dean of libraries, announced that the adjacent study area would be refurbished and computer terminals added to give the feel of a cybercafe. The new … Continued

A branch of the UT Book and Supply Store (renamed VolShop in 2013) opened in the John C. Hodges Library in fall 1996 as a result of requests from the Student Government Association.

Today’s Webster C. Pendergrass Library had its beginnings in 1880 with the establishment of a library to serve the disciplines of agriculture, horticulture and botany in the new Agricultural Hall (later, Morrill Hall) on the Hill. The library moved to Morgan Hall when it was completed in 1921. The much-expanded library moved to its present … Continued

The UT Libraries assumed responsibility for the Social Work Library in Nashville in 1990. A core collection, part of the collection transferred to Tennessee State University when the school moved to its campus after the merger of UT at Nashville and TSU, was transferred back from TSU to the Nashville rental space obtained for the … Continued

In January 1968 UT joined a group of 48 other institutions of higher learning in the United States (of more than 2,200) whose libraries had one million or more volumes. Designated as the one-millionth book was the initial volume of The Papers of Andrew Johnson, a massive research and editing project of two UT history … Continued

On March 15, 1994, during its celebration of the bicentennial of the chartering of the institution as Blount College, the UT Libraries added its two millionth volume. The item purchased as the two-millionth volume was Davy Crocket Almanac (1841). A lecture celebrating the two-millionth volume and the role of libraries was given at the UT … Continued

On March 26, 2010, the UT Libraries celebrated the acquisition of its three-millionth volume, the Cherokee speller Tsvlvki Sqclvclv, by D. S. Butrick and David Brown. The speller was developed by a teacher at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ Brainard Mission School, near Chattanooga, and a Cherokee pupil at the school, David … Continued

An audiotape tour in the general format of those used in major museums and galleries was first instituted (and required of all freshman English students) in 1978. The tour was of the John Hodges Undergraduate Library. A modified version was the principal means of informing students about the temporary locations of library materials during the … Continued

The library’s card catalog was “frozen” to monographs in 1992, following a trial that began in 1986 in the Music Library of having the collection available on computer. The computerized and paper systems were concurrently updated until 1994, when only the computerized version was updated—first for monographs only and then for serials. The card catalogs … Continued