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Join us for a discussion with Carole Boston Weatherford, award-winning-author, tomorrow, Friday March 31, at Peabody Library in the Fireside Reading Room, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. In partnership with the National Museum of African American Music, this event will feature a discussion with Boston Weatherford facilitated by Alice… Read More

First session: Friday, March 24, 11:00 AM-noon CDT in the Science and Engineering Library Seminar Room (SC 3211). Registration for Zoom or in-person: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdumurDMpGNwU2dGQPwVDN_4RMdI_02k_ Second session (same content): Friday, March 31, 11:00 AM-noon CDT in the Eskind Biomedical Library Training Room (EBL lower level). Registration for Zoom or in-person:… Read More

Skip Pfeiffer worked on the TV news archive index for 13 years before switching to abstract writing, which he does to this day. (photographer unknown/Vanderbilt) The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Vanderbilt Television News Archive recognize Skip Pfeiffer for reaching the 50-year milestone at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Mary Magdalene, long diminished by the church as the penitent sinner or prostitute, is almost universally represented at the feet of Jesus in church-commissioned art. This exhibition Reclaim Mary Magdalene featuring four contemporary artists, Lázaro Ceballos Fernández, Laura James, Janet McKenzie and Sue Ellen Parkinson, on the contrary, portrays Mary… Read More

A huge congratulations to EBL’s Rachel Lane Walden, Health Sciences Informationist, who was recently named a 2023 MLA Rising Star. The MLA Rising Star program gives members the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge, and personal characteristics needed to become a leader in the Medical Library Association. https://www.mlanet.org/page/rising-stars  … Read More

Vanderbilt University is making big plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the university, dating from Cornelius Vanderbilt’s letter of March 17, 1873, in which he offered to endow a university in the Nashville area. In honor of that event, our distinctive collections curators… Read More

Please join us Thursday, February 16, Noon–1:00 p.m. in the Central Library Community Room for a moderated lunchtime panel (lunch served first come, first serve) on the life of one of the most well-known American librarians and experts in illuminated manuscripts in the early-mid twentieth century, Belle da Costa Greene,… Read More

Please join us Tuesday, February 14, Noon–1:00 p.m. in the libraries’ Special Collections for a reception catered by Hattie B’s for the exhibition, The Reinvented Life of Belle da Costa Greene. One of the most well-known American librarians and experts in illuminated manuscripts in the early-mid twentieth century, Belle… Read More

Manuscripts and photographs pertaining to the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike from the Reverend James M. Lawson Papers are now available in Jstor to campus scholars. On February 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two sanitation workers for the city of Memphis, were crushed to death in a garbage… 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