Books

A new episode of Chris Benda’s Authorial Intentions podcast is available, featuring an interview with Professor Jaco Hamman about his book, The Millennial Narrative: Sharing a Good Life with the Next Generation. More interviews are available on the Authorial Intentions site on SoundCloud. Read More

Edible Books Festival Flyer The campus and community are invited to join us for the second festival on April 1st to experience the delightful collision of books and food. “Last year’s entries were extremely clever. The libraries are glad to again be part of this global celebration of books and… Read More

Please check out these programs, lectures and workshops taking place in the libraries in February2019. Read More

Congratulations to Peabody Library for winning the statewide Tennessee Library Association Banned Books Week display competition for their exhibit.  Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books… Read More

A cottage industry of book-related news reminds us that books are dying, or dead, or on life support. But as librarians, we know that’s not the whole story. On National Book Lovers’ Day, let’s look at loving books and re-reading them.  As children, learning to read opens doors for us. … Read More

Special Collections Library student Kena Cheatham at Opportunity NOW Showcase. Friday, July 13th, was a great day for Special Collections as we celebrated the successful completion of another year’s work with Opportunity NOW, the Nashville program that gets high school students working at local companies across Davidson County.  Our students, Rana… Read More

For highlights about the Libraries’ activities and events for Winter/Spring 2018, enjoy our Quarterly Report. QR-VUL-2018-Winter-Spring.pdf… Read More

The International Edible Book Festival has been held annually since 2000 in countries around the world, and now Vanderbilt is joining in for the first time! Vanderbilt community members are welcome to submit their most creative—and edible!—literary work of art on Monday, April 2. Participants create an “edible book,”… Read More

Vanderbilt Libraries welcome a new acquisition: The first edition of the Amsterdam Haggadah (1695) Amsterdam Haggadah of 1695 A special exhibition at the Central Library titled “Why is this Book different from any other?”  celebrates the recent acquisition of a rare guide to the Passover Seder.  The Amsterdam Haggadah… Read More

The Secret Game This spring the Wild Bunch sponsors a talk and book signing with historian Scott Ellsworth from University of Michigan. His book The Secret Game (2015) brings to light an important, nearly-forgotten story about WWII, the New South, and basketball. Focusing on a game played in Durham,… Read More