Q. What are those colorful stairs in front of the library?
A. http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/myvu/news/2009/10/07/art-makes-place-continues-on-vanderbilt-campus.93214

The Divinity Library has a new exhibit featuring Charles Soong, one of Vanderbilt’s Alums from the 1880’s. Mr. Soong and his family are often regarded as “republican China’s first family.”
His daughter Ch’ing-ling married Sun Yat-sen. Another daughter married Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. The third daughter married the Chinese finance minister (said to be the richest [...]

The Divinity Library is pleased to have recently received three pieces on loan from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery. All three pieces are compositions by the Japanese artist, Sadao Watanabe and are from the Herman D. Doochin Collection, donated to the Fine Arts Gallery in 1992.

In the south wing of the Divinity Library [...]

Born into extreme poverty prior to the Civil War, Edward Emerson Barnard rose to prominence as an astronomer. Credited as being the world’s greatest observer, Barnard began his career at the Vanderbilt University Observatory in 1883 before moving on to larger observatories at the University of California and the University of Chicago. This exhibit, titled [...]

The Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University Medical Center announces the first in a series of online, 3D page-turning volumes from its collection of rare books on the history of medicine, nutrition and related subjects.
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Online Rare Book Comments on Corpulency

“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 [...]

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From the first of April until the end of August 2007, Special Collections and University Archives will feature a Civil War exhibit entitled, “Gone But Not Forgotten: Civil War Materials in Special Collections. This exhibit will feature materials from the Mary Margaret and John L. Farringer, Jr.; Harris D. Riley, Jr.; Sam Fleming; James G. [...]

Special Collections just posted a new World War II Online Exhibit on the exhibits page. The home page for the exhibit is http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/exhibits/ww2/ww2.shtml. Here’s a description of the exhibit from its home page:The online version of our 2006 exhibit on World War II features material from a variety of sources including the manuscript collections [...]