Acquisitions

The Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. who has played key roles in the Civil Rights Movement and Vanderbilt University’s history, has donated a significant portion of his papers to Vanderbilt Libraries’ Special Collections. The announcement was posted in the University’s MyVU on February 19 and picked up by… Read More

The library has purchased the ebrary Academic Complete collection of over 70,000 electronic books in all subjects. Records for these books can be found in both library catalogs, Acorn and DiscoverLibrary. One click on the URL will lead to the e-book. Links to Academic Complete and other e-book collections are… Read More

August 22, 2011 Media contact: Ann Marie Deer Owens, 615-322-NEWS annmarie.owens@vanderbilt.edu Lamar Alexander donates pre-Senate papers to Vanderbilt Exhibit featuring early swearing-in as governor to open in renovated library NASHVILLE, Tenn. – U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, whose leadership roles have included Tennessee governor, U.S. secretary of… Read More

The papers of Julian Goodman, an NBC broadcast pioneer who helped bring to life the network news programs that we watch today, have been placed at Vanderbilt University Libraries’ Special Collections. Goodman began at NBC as a correspondent in 1945 during the formative years of television news. His experiences provided… Read More