Year: 2019

Sam Douglas is the Coordinator for Collections at Peabody Library. He has worked at Vanderbilt for ½ a year. What is something about your job that you wish everyone knew? Working with our various patrons here at Peabody is one of my favorite things about my job. Whether… Read More

Join the Special Collections Library for fascinating talks this semester led by faculty, librarians, archivists, and curators. Topics this fall will range from Thomas Hobbs’ Leviathan to Cuneiform Tablets. The talks take place weekly in the Special Collections Reading Room on the second floor of the Central & Divinity Libraries… Read More

Antonio Fantuzzi da Trento (1510–1550), after Parmigianino (1503–1540)The Virgin, Christ Child, and St. John, Italians, ca. 1540/50Chiaroscuro woodcut on wove paper7-3/8″ x 9-1/4″The Anna C. Hoyt CollectionVanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Nearly a millennium after its origination in fifth-century Chinese textiles, the woodcut became a… Read More

Greetings and Happy New Year to everyone, First of all, let me apologize and thank the VU/VUMC community for their patience and cooperation with last week’s PubMed/NCBI access situation. I must also commend the University Library’s Technology and EResources team for implementing quick solutions so we may continue to use… Read More

As of July 1, the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery has moved out of the College of Arts & Science purview and now reports to the Provost’s office, under the direction of University Librarian Valerie Hotchkiss. Professor Hotchkiss’s expertise with special collections and curation make this an excellent fit for… Read More

Please check out some of the events happening in January 2019 in the libraries and art gallery. Read More

Antonio Fantuzzi da Trento (Italian, 1510–1550), The Virgin, Christ Child, and St. John, after Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540), ca. 1540/50, Chiaroscuro woodcut on wove paper, 7-3/8″ x 9-1/4,” The Anna C. Hoyt Collection, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery. Then & Now: Five Centuries of Woodcuts January 10–March 1, 2019 You… Read More