Year: 2010

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,… Read More

The IMPACT Symposium project began as a Library Dean’s Fellow project in the 2014­2015 school year. The Deans Fellow Program provides students the ability to complete an in­ depth project of a particular focus. With the help of an assigned mentor, these projects aim to produce a final product that… Read More

Alexander Heard was born in 1917 in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and received a PhD. from Columbia University before going on to a career in education, public affairs and research. He served in the Navy during WWII, was a vice consul at the… Read More

Unfortunately, OCLC will no longer be providing access to the music databases RILM and RIPM on the FirstSearch platform. We will now have access to RILM from ProQuest, and RIPM will be hosted by Ebsco. The links will be changed on Thursday, October 28, because access to FirstSearch will be… Read More

“The Sixties at 50,” an exhibition of unique video, photographs and other treasures from one of society’s most significant decades, is now open at the Vanderbilt University Central Library and Special Collections. “With the beautiful new spaces and the libraries’ expanded exhibition program, we will become a destination for… Read More

Fly into the Music Library for a  special Halloween Open House on Oct. 28th (Thursday) from 4-6 PM. Join us for a scavenger hunt, music bingo, stories, mini-golf, fresh popcorn, crafts and prizes. Wear your costume and plan on being part of the costume parade at 5 PM. All ages… Read More

Due to the generosity of one of our donors, the library has begun to acquire volumes from the New Collected Works of Dmitri Shostakovich. Dmitri Shostakovich’s New Collected Works in 150 volumes differs from Shostakovich’s Collected Works in 42 volumes primarily in its full embrace of the composer’s creative work. Read More

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive,… Read More

The exhibit cases have arrived, students are hard at work, and library staff are beginning to feel like hard work really does pay off. Please drop in and see the new library or if you can’t get by just yet, check out this slideshow to see what all the… Read More

October is DigitalVU month, Vanderbilt’s annual technology learning series organized by University Web Communications.  A variety of presentations and information sessions are scheduled throughout the month, and the Library will host 3 sessions in Central Library’s new 4th floor classroom, room 418A.  For a full schedule of DigitalVU sessions… Read More