Year: 2014

The construction project at Peabody Library this semester has not been the only thing that has kept the Library abuzz with activity. The three subject liaisons at Peabody (Kate Costin, Leslie Foutch & Lee Ann Lannom) have seen their fair share of activity by being involved with numerous instruction endeavors… Read More

Begins February 2. 2015! Register for free. Designed to engage STEM students with real-life engineering and science practices, this 8-week challenge immerses participants in a professional problem-solving environment using Knovel’s optimized search, trusted content and interactive tools… Read More

The Massey Law Library wishes all students a restful Fall Break. But exams start the Monday after Thanksgiving, so for those students who will be taking advantage of the library’s resources over the break, and for all law students who are working tirelessly during finals, remember these things: -Extended hours… Read More

Fung Wah Man, founder of the Global Stories project, will speak in celebration of GIS day on November 19th at 10:00 AM in the Central Library Community Room. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Then, from 1 to 3:30 p.m., a workshop in… Read More

The Massey Law Library mourns the death of Jean Goodman Stumpf, who passed away on Thursday, November 6, 2014. Mrs. Stumpf and her late husband, Professor Samuel E. Stumpf, were benefactors to the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library at Vanderbilt University. Professor Stumpf was the first Vanderbilt professor to gain… Read More

Few books have had more impact on modern literature than Charles Baudelaire’s compendium of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal. Exploring humanity’s many contradictions, Les Fleurs du Mal’s melancholic and erotic verse ensconce the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the spleen and the ideal. With the poems’ rich symbolism… Read More

The J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana at the Vanderbilt University Library includes many pamphlets from 19th-century Colombia. Through the Vanderbilt Libraries’ Dean’s Fellow program a selection of three hundred pamphlets have been digitized from the over two thousand that form part of the collection. This online exhibit by Dean’s… Read More

Baudelaire’s Poe: Selections from the W.T. Bandy Collection features digital images of rare books and materials from W.T. Bandy’s unparalleled collection at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University. This online exhibition reveals fascinating interconnections between the lives and works of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867),… Read More