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Come join us in the Science and Engineering Library for Valentine’s Day events. All day long we will have card making and puzzle pages available. Early morning we will have coffee in the hallway. We will have button making in the hallway from 12:30pm-1:45pm.  Bring your own photo or chose… Read More

Stevenson Science and Engineering Library are hosting the Vanderbilt Career Center to bring you drop-in sessions in the main hallway outside the library’s main doors from 11am-12:30pm. The Vanderbilt Career Center serves: full-time enrolled undergraduate students in Blair School of Music, College of Arts and Science, Peabody College,… Read More

The Vanderbilt libraries have recently signed a deal that provides access to all Nature titles. This includes all 32 Nature research and 20 Nature review publications. This deal will include any journals that Nature publishes in the future as well. These publications can be accessed on or off-campus through the library… Read More

The Science and Engineering Library has purchased perpetual access to the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Archive. This archive includes access to all articles, conference proceedings, and eBook published by SPIE from 1963-2011. The Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center (VBC), mechanical and biomedical engineering departments are heavy users of the… Read More

Join us at Science and Engineering Library for extended hours during exams for your studying needs. We will be open extended hours starting Friday, December 9 and will remain open continuously until  closing at 5pm on Saturday, December 17. While you are studying you can enjoy a stress break with… Read More

New Exhibition in Special Collections: Miniature Books from the Vanderbilt Libraries by Molly Dohrmann A new exhibition, opening this fall in Special Collections, highlights some of the smallest books in our collections. For centuries miniature books have captured the imagination of readers around the world. Miniature books require specific skills… Read More

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Octavia Butler: Grand Dame of Science Fiction Central Library Lobby May-July 2022 Octavia Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction author.  In her early publishing career, she was one of the few Black women authors in a field dominated by white men.   Extremely shy as a child, she… Read More

Written by Elizabeth Mosiman When Vanderbilt University first opened in 1875, students lived in university-approved boarding houses near campus. The closest the university came to having a dormitory was Wesley Hall – a former boarding house – which served multiple purposes: housing faculty and divinity students; providing classroom space for… Read More

A new exhibition highlighting the history of Mechanical Engineering Hall is now on display in the Special Collections Library.    When Vanderbilt University opened in October 1875, classes and laboratories were all housed… Read More