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A new director is in charge at the Hancock County Library System. Jennifer Baxter is a Pascagoula native with library experience all across the country.
Dyersburg State Community College will host open-house events for adult students seeking free tuition through the Tennessee Reconnect grant Tuesday, March 6, from 8 a.m.-6 p.m., inside the Student Center on the Dyersburg campus, and Tuesday, March 13, from 1-6 p.m., inside the Learning Resource Center, Student Center and Tipton County Public Library, rooms 139 and 140, at the DSCC Jimmy Naifeh Center at Tipton County
A new director is in charge at the Hancock County Library System. Jennifer Baxter is a Pascagoula native with library experience all across the country.
Carole Cornell has been volunteering for the Friends of the Library for several years and loves it. We asked her why she loves the library and why she spends her valuable time supporting its work.
Computer coding may sound like a difficult thing to learn, but Jefferson Elementary librarian Kristy Williamson-Jackson says it's actually quite simple when broken down.Coding is nothing more than snapping blocks together to get whatever you want to do, wh
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Once a bookworm, always a bookworm.
State Archivists Seek WWI Artifacts from West Tenn. Residents
Suzette Raney is the archivist at the Chattanooga Public Library. For more information on barbershops and beauty salons, visit the Local History Department at the Chattanooga Public Library
The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) and Secretary of State Tre Hargett recently announced the recipients of 52 digital literacy and broadband adoption grants.
These grants were made possible by Gov. Haslam’s Tennessee Broadband Accessibility Act and a partnership between TNECD and the Tennessee State Library and Archives within the Secretary of State’s office.
The Broadband Accessibility Act was approved by the General Assembly in 2017.
The grants will support three main resources for communities:
The annual series will kick off on Feb. 24 and look at Nashville’s storied history with food
Scott Davis, library media specialist and National Honor Society sponsor at Montgomery Central High School, was selected as a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction by the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS). Each year, student members of NSHSS are invited to nominate the educator who has made the most significant contribution to their academic career.
This honor recognizes exemplary educators whose passion and devotion inspire students to grow and develop as scholars, leaders and citizens.
"We went, we did our duty, It has been called the forgotten war," said Gene Stone, who served in the Korean War.
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The event, which features free tree seedlings, face paintings and a variety of other activities, will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 17 at the John P. Holt Brentwood Library.
The $9.2 million project will include about 58,000 square feet of new construction, with more classrooms, a new gym and cafeteria, library, music and art rooms, and an administrative suite.
Read Across America is being celebrated this week at the Morristown-Hamblen Public Library and Hamblen County schools as educators prepare for National Read Across America Day on Friday.
Students will receive transportation and both breakfast and lunch at the camp. They will also participate in theme related field trips including weekly trips to Adams Memorial Library.
Joe Anne Lintz, retired Greene County teacher and librarian who volunteers at the Tusculum College Library, the Doak House Museum and the Nathaniel Greene Museum.
The Bradford home on Vine Street passed to the Ross family, and Miss Augusta Bradford lived there for many years. She was the genealogist at the Chattanooga Public Library.
Rutherford County Library System Director Rita Shacklett told the Murfreesboro Rotary Club on Tuesday that the new Technology Engagement Center at 306 Minerva Drive would have a soft opening in June.
More than 45 curious minds filled a meeting room in the Johnson City Public Library for a panel exploring “DACA: Dreaming Together.”
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or
The head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee paid a visit to Chattanooga on Thursday night, walking a small group of interested community members through the organization's work to reduce mass incarceration, among other things.
Ten sites in Tennessee were recently added to the newly-launched U.S. Civil Rights Trail, and three of the ten are located in Memphis. Th
Historic sites related to the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville are helping put the entire state of Tennessee on the map, literally.
Among the panelists were Brady, Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (TACIR) Senior Research Associate Dr. Matt Owen, Rep. John Ray Clemmons, Cheatham County Librarian May Lingner and Mathew Binkey of Vanderbilt University’s Advanced Computing Center.
The words of Anne Frank’s diary come to life in the locally directed and produced one act play “The Window.”Teen actresses Katherine Kyle or Sheridan Hillegeist, both from Spring Hill, vividly portray Anne Frank as she evolves into young womanhood in her new, restrictive environment.Free community performances for March-April include: March 11 at 4 p.m. at The John P. Holt Brentwood Library, March 20 at 4 p.m. at the Williamson County Public Library in Franklin and April 12 at
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"The problem here is that while English language versions are available (I believe the University of Tennessee Library has one)..."