Year: 2018

Congratulations to Peabody Library for winning the statewide Tennessee Library Association Banned Books Week display competition for their exhibit.  Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books… Read More

Did you know that the Vanderbilt University Libraries provide access to over 1.5 million full-text e-books, including thousands of online textbooks? Titles cover a wide range of subjects and are available for immediate download. To see if the Libraries have an electronic version of the textbook you’re looking for, search… Read More

Thanks to everyone who participated in the flag ceremony in Central Library’s Community Room.  Special thanks go to Provost Wente, Col. Dustin Mitchell, Brandon Hulette, Sergeant Kotz and everyone from Vanderbilt ROTC. We will post the video of the ceremony once the recording is ready, but in the meantime, have… Read More

Join us in the Special Collections Library from 11:15am-12:00pm every Wednesday morning during this semester for fascinating talks led by library librarians, archivists, and curators. To see the full series, click here. This week’s talk: Franz Rosenzweig and His ‘Star’ Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929)… Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Library has acquired a beautiful bound volume by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), containing three monographs on ancient monuments in the Alban Hills near Rome: Descrizione e disegno dell’emissario del Lago Albano (Description and Design of the Emissarium of Lake Albano), 1762; Di due spelonche ornate… Read More

The Global Commodities database from Adam Matthew “brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years.” Among the imaginative features of… Read More

Due to inclement weather, the historic flag ceremony will take place in the Central Library Community Room.  Please join us as we honor the flag and our veterans and enjoy red, white and blue cookies. Read More

The Libraries is pleased to announce GIS Day(s) coming this November 14-16. In coordination with International GIS Day, Vanderbilt University is hosting three days of keynote speakers, hands-on training opportunities, and even a drone mapping project. Join VU to celebrate all things Geographic Information Systems (GIS) November 14-16, in various… Read More

The latest issue of the Libraries’ Quarterly Report, Summer/Fall 2018 is now available for reading. You may find the issue online at: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/9297 Earlier issues are archived online and available at: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/9282… Read More