Year: 2010

Videocast “Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910” Sponsored by the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, Central Library and the Department of French & Italian Jeff Jackson, Professor of… Read More

Update: January 25-31 The move of library materials is complete! The construction on the 8th floor is scheduled to begin Feb. 1.  The vacated portion of the 8th floor will become inaccessible soon. Expect noisy conditions as the barrier is installed. Books: Call numbers DJK-DX, E, and F have been… Read More

A selected list of nominees from the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards is below.  Check Acorn for current availability and more nominees. Best Chamber Music Performance Emerson String Quartet, Intimate Letters CD MUS-12650 Best Choral Performance Krzysztof Penderecki, Utrenja (Warsaw Phil. Choir and Orchestra, Antoni Wit, cond.) CD MUS-12648 Best Classical… Read More

Harrison Dreves, a first-year Vanderbilt student, created a video about the 8th floor renovation project currently underway. He videotaped activity on the 8th floor as the shelves were being removed, and he talked with David Carpenter and interviewed Jared Ingersoll and Flo Wilson. Harrison is a videographer for InsideVandy.com, the… Read More

VU Staff: Did you know? *Spouses and Domestic partners can also check out books at the library *You can use Library databases from home *The Library has leisure reading, movies, and much much more Check out the library! and if you have a… Read More

Paris Underwater: How the City of Light Survived the Flood of 1812 Article in City Paper about lecture From City Paper: IF YOU GO What: Author and historian Jeffrey H. Jackson reads from and signs copies of his new book Paris Under Water: How The City of Light… Read More

In honor of National Engineers Week, February 14 – 20, the Sarah Shannon Stevenson Science & Engineering Library is sponsoring the 3rd Annual Zome Design Competition in February, 2010. Teams of student engineers build and describe unique devices during a four-hour block of time using special zonahedron pieces and struts. Read More

ACS Publications debuts its ACS on Campus initiative at Vanderbilt, January 27-28, 2010. With the assistance of Kitty Porter, Vanderbilt librarian, American Chemical Society staff from the Publications and Membership divisions will provide on site providing training on ACS web tools, introduce new ACS products, and share the American Chemical… Read More

8th floor: Some shelving and furniture is being removed from the 8th floor. This area will be noisy at times. Call numbers DJK-DX, E and F have been relocated from the 8th floor to the 6th floor. Bound Periodicals: Many of our bound periodicals have moved to the Library Annex. Read More

The library now offers a calendar of library instruction sessions that covers topics that are NOT course- or discipline-specific. So if you want to attend a session to learn more about EndNote, Excel, etc., use this calendar to find out what’s being offered, when, and where. Read More