This collection houses correspondence, publications, minutes, studies, evaluations, and student records documenting the U.T. Library Service Department and Dorothy E. Ryan's involvement with the Southeastern Library Association, the American Library Association, and the Tennessee Library Association.

This collection contains correspondence written on November 5, 1922 to the Trustees of the University of Tennessee from Lalla Block Arnstein. With the correspondence, a check for $5,000 is enclosed for the use of purchasing books for the University of Tennessee library. Lists of the books purchased are included. The collection also includes correspondence dating between 1923 and 1959 to and from Arnstein and her husband, Max, in regards to the Lalla Block Arnstein Foundation.

This collection houses materials (primarily requests and recommendations for purchases) documenting the University of Tennessee Libraries' Lindsay Young Endowment.

The UT Libraries Records encompasses the administrative, operational, outreach and service, instructional, and academic research activities of its departments, faculty, and staff from 1878 to the present. The records illustrate the library system’s commitment to enhancing students’ academic experiences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus through print and electronic collections, reference and instructional services, and facilities and technological resources.

This Collection is comprised of various posters from Writers in the Library, a long-running reading series that showcases the work of novelists, poets, and other authors. The University of Tennessee Libraries and UT’s Creative Writing Program in association with the John C. Hodges Better English Fund sponsor several readings each semester in the Hodges Library auditorium.