Year: 2009

Author Doris Kearns Goodwin will be at Vanderbilt May 7 to speak to graduating seniors and receive the Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal. Find Doris Kearns Goodwin’s books at the library. If the book you want is checked out, click “Get It” and then click “Recall this item.” More info about the… Read More

The Heard Library system’s Electronic Classroom will be open for student study: April 21-30, daily until 1/2 hour before closing The Electronic Classroom is room 211, adjacent to the Divinity Library administration. For building hours see the hours for the Central or Divinity Libraries… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Peabody, Science & Engineering, and Central have extended hours at the end of the semester. Peabody April 19 – May 1, open continuously Science & Engineering April 19 – April 30, open continuously Central April 12 – April 29 Monday – Thursday 7:30 – Midnight… Read More

Note author Augusten Burroughs will be at Vanderbilt on April 8. Augusten Burroughs books at the library More info on the event: Brooks Fund welcomes New York Times Bestselling Author Augusten Burroughs to Nashville… Read More

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. Read More

The Heard Library system is a co-sponsor of the 23rd Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, hosted by the Graduate Student Council on Monday, March 30, 2009. http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/gsc/2008/10/033009-gsrs-keynote-speaker-susan-basalla/… Read More

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… Read More

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Library is highlighting the following databases North American Women’s Letters and Diaries, Colonial-1950 British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries: 1500-1900 American Civil War: Letters and Diaries Each of these databases contains the full text… Read More