Year: 2022

The Eskind Biomedical Library is pleased to announce that we are now Institutional Fellows of the British Medical Journal. This membership is required to submit BMJ Case Reports. See below for more information: BMJ Case Reports  VU and VUMC authors (faculty, staff, and students) can submit case reports. Publication fee… Read More

The June 2022 Primary Source Friends newsletter is available here. Read More

We invite you to visit the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery for these July events: Exhibit Tour, Tuesday, July 5, 2022, Noon – 1:00 p.m. (the first Tuesday of the month) Join curator for a guided tour of the current exhibition Foujita’s Cats &c. with focus on a specific… Read More

School of Nursing Dean Pamela R. Jeffries and Philip Walker, recipient of the School of Nursing Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service to Faculty and Students Eskind Biomedical Library Director Philip Walker was recognized at the May 2022 Vanderbilt School of Nursing awards ceremony for outstanding service to faculty and… Read More

The Office of LGBTQI Life and the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are hosting an outdoor movie night at the KC Potter Center featuring Brian Wayne Peterson and James Babbit’s 1999 American satirical romantic teen comedy film But I’m a Cheerleader. BYOB (Bring Your Own Blanket – and pillow!)… Read More

As noted in today’s story in MyVU, Vanderbilt has temporarily reinstated the indoor masking protocols on campus. A few of the protocols of note: New masking protocols go into effect Monday, June 20 Wear a mask indoors if you cannot maintain 6 feet of physical distancing from others Masking… Read More

[Optic Disc Edema], Susan H. Wilkes, 1932. Susan H. Wilkes Collection. Vanderbilt University History of Medicine CollectionsThe History of Medicine Collections has collaborated with Dr. Karla Johns and the Vanderbilt Eye Institute on a new exhibit on the evolution of the ophthalmoscope and of ophthalmology pioneers in Nashville. Along with… Read More

Artists, writers, models and creatives met, partied, and worked in the cafes, bars and restaurants of Montparnasse, the 14th arrondissement of Paris. In the early 20th century, artists drawn to Paris dreaming of success included Picasso from Spain, Modigliani from Italy and their friend Tsugouharu Foujtia from Japan. Foujita enjoyed… Read More

Jon Shaw has been appointed the new leader of the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University, effective July 1. Previously, Shaw served as associate vice provost and deputy university librarian for the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. With experience in collaborative partnerships, strategic initiatives and digital strategy, as well… Read More

What’s old is new again. In 2020, a group of retrocomputing enthusiasts published Nox Archaist, a new role-playing adventure game for the 1983 Apple IIe computer. Why would anyone write 8-bit games for an obsolete platform released nearly forty years ago? In this exhibit, located in the Stevenson Science and… Read More