Food for Thought or Bad Taste? (artists’ statements) Last year, the library approached Professor Mel Ziegler to consider the Central Library’s new Food for Thought Café as a location for an exhibition of art created by one of his classes. One of the café’s unique features is a repurposing of the 1941 card catalog with [...]

by Ann Marie Deer Owens Students enjoy using the renovated Parkes Armistead Reading Room at Vanderbilt’s Central Library. (Vanderbilt University) A survey that should take only five to 10 minutes for you to complete will help guide future priorities for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library system and all of its libraries and collections. All [...]

Monday night’s panel discussion, “The Auto Industry Comes to Tennessee: Exploring the Impact of the Auto Industy and It’s Future in the State” was covered by WSMV Channel 4 and WTVF Channel 5. The panel included Senator Lamar Alexander and other leaders in the auto industry and was hosted by Dean Dowell as well as [...]

Starting on Sunday, April 22 and ending Thursday, May 3, both Peabody and Science & Engineering will be open 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Starting on April 20, the Central and Divinity Libraries will be open for extended hours. Check the hours page for details .

March 29, 2012 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Central Library 4th Floor Lobby Come Wear Your Green! 12:00 p.m. Group photo shoot Refreshments and Tours The 2010 renovation of the Central Library has earned a gold LEED certification, making it the first Vanderbilt campus renovation to achieve this honor. The Library is working with SustainVU, [...]

We invite you to visit the Scholastic Book Fair at Peabody Library and experience a celebration of reading that provides families the opportunity to get involved in a universal mission: encouraging kids to read every day so they can lead better lives. The physical book fair will be on Thursday March 15th and Friday March [...]

by Kion Sawney The Vanderbilt Library Lecture Series on Wednesday afternoon welcomed David Owens to talk on why innovation fails. Drawing on years of experience in the corporate world and academia, Owens led a discussion on the six major types of constraints that hinder innovation. Most people associate innovation with the slogan of “thinking out [...]