A professional storyteller will tell ghost stories at the Tree of Knowledge on Library Lawn from 11pm-1:00am on Thursday, October 29th. Bring a blanket and enjoy some hot chocolate at this event.

A performance panel discussion will be hosted October 8 at Noon at The Vanderbilt Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, located at 1207 18th Avenue, South, 37212; with the Company actors and Vanderbilt Performance Art students. The event promises to be memorable as the topic of Censorship in the Arts is explored [...]

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents an exhibition titled Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris from September 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010. This exhibition has borrowed many books from the Pascal Pia Collection, from the Library’s W.T. Bandy Center.  For more information about the Twilight Visions exhibition, please see http://www.fristcenter.org/site/exhibitions/exhibitiondetail.aspx?cid=688

Central Library Book Sale
Friday, April 17th, 8am – 6pm
Library Plaza (Rain location 2nd floor breezeway)
Thousands of books at bargain prices!!!
8am – 2pm : $2 hardbacks ; $1 paperbacks
2pm – 4 pm : Everything half-price!!!
4pm – 6pm : $1 for a plastic grocery bag of books!!!

Europe Beyond Your Means: The Paris Edition
Reading and Book Signing
April 3, 2009
12:00 noon
Peabody Library Fireside Reading Room
Summer is just around the corner and for those planning a summer getaway and others who enjoy dreaming of adventure, this event is for you. Please join the Jean and Alexander Heard Library system in welcoming Conrad Lucas [...]

Artist’s Talk: A Life behind the Camera
Associate Provost Lucious Outlaw, Jr.
Monday, March 16, 2009
5:00 to 7:00 pm
Peabody Library Fireside Reading Room

Please join us in the Peabody Library Fireside Reading Room to hear Associate Provost Lucious Outlaw discuss his passion for photography. Following the talk there will be a reception for the exhibition in the [...]

During the Spring 2009 semester, the Stevenson Science and Engineering Library will be sponsoring a Science Documentary Film Series. Four films will be shown, approximately one per month, on Wednesdays at 4:00PM in Stevenson Lecture Hall 4327. All films are free and open to the Vanderbilt community. Light refreshments will be served. A [...]

All are invited to participate in the a race across campus that involves GPS units, walking directions, and reading a map to follow the clues to a final destination. The race was designed for the Vanderbilt Visions program but we would love to give everyone an opportunity to participate. For more information: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/visions/race.html Please [...]

The library will host a brown bag session for the greater Vanderbilt GIS community for a bit of networking and discussion on GIS day. All are welcome and the library will provide cookies for the meeting. Several GIS users from different departments on campus will briefly share how they are using GIS and their areas [...]

“Who Speaks for the Negro,”  is a newly created database and website, that includes digital audio of interviews Robert Penn Warren made in preparation for his 1965 book of the same title.  The interviewees include a variety of people who were involved in the Civil Rights Movement.  The library database was created in part to accompany [...]