Year: 2012

The Global Music Archive recently added Inanga: A Song of Survival in a Daughter’s Rwanda, a 38-minute documentary conceived and filmed by Blair School of Music faculty member Dr. Gregory Barz during the summers of 2009 and 2010. Barz attempted to document the rich role played by the inanga within… Read More

Calling all students, faculty and staff: What do you call the projection of search terms that you see when you enter the Central Library on the 4th floor? The Word Cloud? The Word Fountain? That Thingy? We need your help in naming this beautiful design feature. Beginning… Read More

Twitter: MusLibBlairVU Facebook: Anne Potter Wilson Music Library Don’t miss the news and updates on new acquisitions, staff recommendations, tips on music research, new collections, and important music news. Read More

World Scholar: Latin America-this database now includes an additional segment on trial of statistical and journal literature relating to Latin America and is available until January 31, 2012. http://worldscholar.galegroup.com/region/latin-america?u=nash87800… Read More

Latino Literature is available on trial until February 2, 2012 (from campus only) and includes Latino folk tales, poetry, fiction, and drama-some of which have never been published before and some in audio format. http://lali.alexanderstreet.com… Read More

During National Engineers Week (Feb. 19 – Feb 25), the Library sponsors the Zome Design & Build Competition. This year, the challenge relates to the possibility of extremophiles on Mars. Sign up your team at the Science & Engineering Library. See complete rules for entering the competition at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/science/zome/… Read More

The Wilson Music Library recently completed adding two rich collections of compact disc recordings to its holdings. The collection donated by blues scholar Peter Redvers-Lee numbers nearly 200 items ranging from rereleases of early blues recordings from the early 20th century to newer releases of 1990s-era blues and soul. In… Read More

Thanks to everyone who helped us select the new graphic for the Food For Thought Cafe. After being closed during winter break, the cafe resumed regular hours on Monday and is now open Monday – Thursday 9:00 am to 10:00 pm, Friday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, and Sunday 3:00… Read More

For some of us, it’s hard to believe that the first pictures of the red planet were received 40 years ago. It’s only one of over 40 news stories in the Vanderbilt Television News Archive interactive on display on Central Library’s 4th floor, changed out over the holiday break to… Read More