Year: 2019

Symbols & Archetypes: Two Millennia of Recurring Visions in Art, the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery’s fall exhibition, made headlines (and a cover page) during its fall 2019 run. The national art magazine Art & Antiques profiled the exhibition in a five-page feature titled “Ageless Images“; The Nashville… Read More

You’ve just spent the last several hours arranging your disparate ideas into a coherent research paper — and now you have to spend several more hours typing up your citations and bibliography. Does this sound depressingly familiar? Bibliographic management software can make things easier, and staff at the Vanderbilt libraries… Read More

Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 2, from 12:30-1 p.m. to learn how to Score “Big Time” at the Wilson Music Library. Professor Michael Rose will discuss some of the Music Library’s newly acquired contemporary scores, housed in the Oversize Scores section. This event is open to all students, faculty, and… Read More

Which communication outlet do you monitor most frequently to learn about library events? That’s what we asked last week in a quick online survey. This is how you, our library patrons, responded: Your feedback tells us the best avenues for promoting library programs and workshops. Follow the libraries on… Read More

Every October, the academic and research community worldwide celebrates Open Access Week to highlight the efforts and achievements of the Open Access Movement. In past years, Vanderbilt’s Libraries have used Open Access Week to explore such topics as open access publishing, authors’ rights, gender issues, and green and gold open… Read More

The Doctor Is In: Home Remedies and Recipes through History October 2, 4:30 p.m. Meet Anne Byrn, NY Times bestselling author of 12 books on cooking and baking. Anne’s talk will take place in the Central Library Community Room. A reception will follow featuring a cake recipe adapted… Read More

Begun in 2018, the Personal Librarian program connects subject librarians with undergraduates at the time they declare their majors.  The idea for the program originated in a “Design a Better Library” student workshop, funded by the Wild Bunch Fund. Students receive a gift study packet and a customized email from… Read More

Join us for a Calypso Celebration! as the Wilson Music Library introduces a new database to the Global Music Archive. J. Hunter Moore, Fulbright Scholar and long-time Nashville resident, will discuss his research and interviews with Trinidad and Tobago musicians and Mat Britain, Blair instructor of… Read More

Peabody Library hopes you will join us for our first (of several!) events celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Library. Drop in anytime on Thursday, September 26th, from 1:00-2:30 pm to enjoy cake, refreshments, and a trivia contest. The event will be held in the Peabody Library Fireside Reading… Read More

An exhibit marking fifty years of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University will be on display in Vanderbilt University’s Special Collections through November 2019. The exhibit highlights materials held in Vanderbilt University Special Collections, University Archives, as well as items loaned from the Department of African American and… Read More