Library Annex service for periodical article requests has been enhanced. We now offer email delivery of articles, within a four-hour window of receipt, Monday – Friday, until 4:30 p.m. The form for requesting articles to be faxed from periodicals housed at the Annex has been revised. The form is now a [...]

Banned Books Week September 26 - October 3, 2009

“Intellectual freedom can exist only where two essential conditions are met: first, that all individuals have the right to hold any belief on any subject and to convey their ideas in any form they deem appropriate; and second, that society makes an equal commitment to the right [...]

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

The Library has completed negotiations with an external service to provide catalog records for our Arabic language materials, enabling us to add records for these materials to our catalog for the first time.  By outsourcing cataloging to Arabic language experts,  the library will be able to make information about our growing collection in this important [...]