Year: 2010

The papers of Julian Goodman, an NBC broadcast pioneer who helped bring to life the network news programs that we watch today, have been placed at Vanderbilt University Libraries’ Special Collections. Goodman began at NBC as a correspondent in 1945 during the formative years of television news. His experiences provided… Read More

We always enjoy having visitors at the General Library Building, but we understand that our current renovation project may not be conducive to a wonderful library experience. The Library’s online services offer a number of ways for you to have access to the resources you need without having to navigate… Read More

Temporary entrances for both the Central and Divinity libraries will be in place beginning Saturday, May 15.  Access to the Central Library will be through the door on the south end of the building by Library Lawn. The Divinity Library entrance will be via the south end of the breezeway,… Read More

Listen to Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interview Douglas Knight, the Drusilla Moore Buffington Professor of Hebrew Bible and Professor of Jewish Studies, about his forthcoming book, Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel. Hear it now or get the podcast at iTunes!… Read More

What is a library? There may be as many ways to answer that question as there are answers for it. We are used to answering with words, but it is also possible to answer a question with images, which is what assistant professor of art Vesna Pavlovic’s Photography II class… Read More

Beginning this Saturday, May 8, 2010, the open hours for the Music Library will be the following: Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Saturday through Sunday: CLOSED As well, The Wilson Music Library will be closed on Monday, May 31 (Memorial Day), and Monday, July 5 (observance… Read More

• Checked shelves for lost items. • Shifted scores. • Shelf read entire collection each semester. • Inventoried CD collection . • Assisted with the Global Music Archive, Blair Performance Archive and the Bartles Collection. • Staffed the reference desk. • Scanned 2 1/2… Read More

Students from Professor Vesna Pavlovic’ Art 220 Photography II class took on the assignment of photographing Peabody Library as part of their spring semester class work.  The resulting images speak to the topic of “What is a library?”.  The eight students, Ashley Carter, Hannah Fasick, Teresa Han, Jean… Read More

The W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies invites you to a lecture by Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair, Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University. The lecture, titled “L’hyperbole et l’apostrophe: Baudelaire and the Theory of the Lyric”, will take… Read More

Professor Michael Aurbach’s Art 151 Assemblage class put together their final class project on Monday afternoon, April 26 on Library Lawn near the bronze Tree of Knowledge.   The assemblage, Giant Bronze Eating Termites, was a display of several army-fatigued termites marching toward the Tree of Knowledge with the… Read More