Year: 2019

In honor of Shakespeares birthday week, we recreated a salad that you might have seen during Shakespearean times. Salad or “Sallet” to writer John Evelyn (1620-1706) was not an elaborate dish piled high with minced capon (like chicken), capers, and lettuces dressed with sugar. To Evelyn, who in 1699… Read More

Ball Player in Warrior Bird Costume, Pre-Columbian, Classic Period, 600–800 A.D., The Marjorie and Leon Marlowe Collection, Vanderbilt University. 1994.532 The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present a collection of ancient Latin American artifacts curated by undergraduate students as part of a semester-long course led by Dr. Read More

The AAMC Faculty Salary Report for FY18 has been received and processed at the Eskind Biomedical Library. It is located in the Reference section (W 79 R425 2019). Read More

The Religious Magazine Archive is a collection of 22 periodicals that represent a variety of religious traditions.  The coverage of the entire collection ranges from 1845 to 2015. Contents include The American Theosophist, The Catholic World, Islamic Horizons, and The Sikh Messenger, among other titles.  More popular than… Read More

Beginning Sunday, April 14, Peabody Library will offer extended hours for students studying finals. Peabody Library will be open 24/7 from April 14th through May 2nd. Summer hours begin at at 9:00pm on Thursday, May 2nd. Up-to-date information on all VU Libraries hours can be found here. Best of… Read More

A new episode of Chris Benda’s Authorial Intentions podcast is available, featuring an interview with Professor Jaco Hamman about his book, The Millennial Narrative: Sharing a Good Life with the Next Generation. More interviews are available on the Authorial Intentions site on SoundCloud. Read More

The Wilson Music Library will offer extended hours on the following dates so students have additional time to study for finals and use the Library’s resources: April 19 (Friday) 8 a.m.-6 p.m. April 20 (Saturday) 12-5 p.m. April 26 (Friday) 8 a.m.-6 p.m. April 27 (Saturday) 12-5… Read More

Co-sponsored with the Peabody Office of  Professional & Graduate Education, we invite all undergraduate, professional & graduate students to join us on Tuesday, April 16 from 7:15 PM to 8:30 PM for a night filled with spoken word poetry and powerful stories of social justice. For this first Spoken Justice… Read More

Tuesday, April 9 is National Library Workers Day. Established in 2003 to recognize the contributions library staff make to our communities.  Please join us in celebrating library workers today!… Read More

Join us in the Special Collections Library from 11:10am-12:00pm  Wednesday mornings during this semester for fascinating talks led by faculty, librarians, archivists, and curators.   The talks take place weekly in the Special Collections Reading Room on the second floor of the Central & Divinity Libraries building.  This event is free and open… Read More