Year: 2012

Please join us in the Music Library for our 5th annual Pre-college student Halloween Open House on Thursday, Oct. 25th from 4-6 PM. Games, scavenger hunts, mini-golf, crafts and snacks are all part of the festivities. Special appearances by the Young Singers of Blair, the Boys’ Choir, and Mr. Read More

“(Always) On the Road (Again): U.S. Theatre on Tour” A lecture presented by Professor Charlotte Canning October 31, 2012 4:10 p.m. Central Library Community Room   “(Always) On the Road (Again): U.S. Theatre on Tour” looks at the history of U.S. performance in the 20th century… Read More

As part of Cheekwood’s annual Harvest Festival, more than 40 local organizations, including Vanderbilt University, were asked to create silly, spooky and scary scarecrows to greet visitors to the festival. This year’s exhibit had a literary theme, so naturally staff members from Vanderbilt’s library systems were called upon to… Read More

Peabody welcomes children’s author Patsi Trollinger for a Fireside Chat on Monday October 15th at 11:30am in the Fireside Reading Room. Patsi will discuss humor and cultural identity in middle grade and YA novels as well as share her books Perfect Timing: How Isaac Murphy Became one of the World’s… Read More

October 4-5 (Thursday-Friday): 9 a.m.-5 p.m. October 6 (Saturday): CLOSED October 7: (Sunday): 2 p.m.–10 p.m. Read More

The Library’s exhibit ‘Stage & Screen’ is highlighted in Vanderbilt News.  Click here for full article. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled to run through June 28, 2013.  For more information, contact Celia Walker, director of special projects, at (615) 343-4701 or… Read More

On September 17, 2012, the library IT department was testing a new process on the library’s servers. Unfortunately, this caused the system to erroneously send out hundreds of overdue notices to Vanderbilt students and faculty. We have had many reports of this problem this morning, with some users receiving more… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Speakers Committee will welcome Azar Nafisi, the New York Times best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, to campus Oct. 9. Nafisi will deliver an address at 7 p.m. in the Student Life Center Ballroom. There will be a book signing at 5:15 p.m. at… Read More

Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews Bruce Morrill, Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies and Professor of Theological Studies, about his new book Encountering Christ in the Eucharist: The Paschal Mystery in People, Word, and Sacrament.  Listen to the interview now or download it!… Read More