Year: 2010

The GLB renovation project began with a goal of achieving LEED Silver certification.  The process is defined by certain actions and decisions that can accrue points, with 50 points needed for Silver and 60 points for Gold level certification.  At this point the Silver certification seems a strong likelihood.   The… Read More

The Library, together with Boopsie, a company specializing in mobile device application development, has created a new Vanderbilt Library mobile application. This service is now available for most mobile devices including the iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile, and others. Current features include the ability to search Acorn, view your Acorn… Read More

The latest set of renovation photos has been posted to the library’s renovation page.  Much progress continues to be made as the new handicap ramp takes shape and the first bricks are laid, walls are cut out for the new elevator, and the first signs of new flooring appear… Read More

Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviewed Dennis Dickerson, James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History, about his books African Methodism and Its Wesleyan Heritage: Reflections on AME Church History and African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago. Listen to the interview now or get the podcast on… Read More

The latest set of photos of the Central Library renovation has been posted to the renovation page.  Construction of the handicap ramp in underway, furniture was recently delivered to the 8th floor Student Commons area, and progress continues on the 4th floor and the breezeway.  Stay tuned for… Read More

We’ve been advised by the construction crews that the jack hammering on the elevator shaft that will generate a lot of noise has not yet begun.  The noise heard from that area recently is from cutting through concrete. We expect the much increased noise levels in the next few days. Read More

Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviewed Lenn Goodman, Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, about his recent book Creation and Evolution. Listen to the interview now or get the podcast on iTunes!… Read More

In late March 2008, musicologists Stephan Blaut and Michael Pacholke from the University of Halle discovered a hitherto unknown organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach among recent acquisitions of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt. Now numbered BWV 1128, this work is a large-scale fantasia based on the chorale Wo Gott… Read More

A slideshow of recent photos of the GLB demolition and renovation have been posted online.  Take a sneek peak inside the Central Library lobby and Reading Room, the breezeway outside the Divinity entrance, and see progress being made outdoors to the handicap access ramp area.  Stay tuned for renovation… Read More

The Music Library will close at 2:30 pm on Tuesday, June 29. Read More