Books

        Please join us this Thursday, November 30, as the Buchanan Library Fellows present their new exhibit, The Once and Future Book, at an opening reception from 12:00PM to 1:00PM in the second floor gallery.  The six fellows researched objects in Special Collections from almanacs and… Read More

The Harriet Lane Handbook, 21e, has been restored to ClinicalKey Please note: A dosage error for hydromorphone HCL (in Child and Adolescent ≥50 kg) has been found and corrected in The Harriet Lane Handbook, 21st edition. The original text indicated that the dose was weight-based, and it is not. The correct… Read More

Students learning the Japanese language gathered at Central Library to read their favorite Japanese books last Friday, March 24, 2017, from 3:30 to 5 pm. Tadoku collection (Japanese materials) at Central Library The books are from the new Tadoku Collection on the main floor of the Central Library in the… Read More

Walker Management Library is happy to share recently added business bestsellers with the Vanderbilt community. Located on the first floor, these new books are available to all university faculty, staff, and students, and can be borrowed for three weeks. Some notable additions from the New York Times bestsellers include: Finerman’s… Read More

Book Sale will be held August 22-September 2, 2012 during operating hours at the Wilson Music Library on the second floor of the Blair School of Music Come to the Music Library’s annual book sale on August 22nd starting at 8 AM and going until Sept. 2nd at 10 PM. Read More

Ever wonder how books get on the shelf ? Why Amazon will never replace the library? Follow the adventures of librarian Paula Covington as she travels throughout Cuba to acquire rare and scarce materials for the Vanderbilt library’s first rate Latin American Collection. (read article) | (Vanderbilt International… Read More

Listen to Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interview Douglas Knight, the Drusilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible and Professor of Jewish Studies, about his forthcoming book, Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel. Hear it now or get the podcast at iTunes!… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Center for Latin American Studies will host a public conversation and reception with Alberto Fuguet, an acclaimed Chilean author, journalist and filmmaker, on March 22 at Fido in Hillsboro Village. The event begins at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. (more) Works… Read More

For your consideration, Central Library has a collection of best sellers in its leisure reading section, as well as a collection of travel guides. Want a quick book exchange? Exchange leisure reading books with the Gnome Tome (Peabody Library) or at the Stevenson Science & Engineering Library. Read More

As you plan to pack up for the summer, please consider donating your gently used popular fiction to Peabody Library’s free book swap, Gnome Tome. Books may be dropped off at the Peabody Library’s service desk. Visitors may take a book from the shelf, located in the Fireside Reading Room,… Read More