Year: 2019

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

This January, the Music Library upgraded its subscription to the RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals to include full-text content. Featuring periodicals from 1760 to 1966, RIPM provides indexing for more than 270 music periodicals and the complete full-text of more than 180 rare primary source journals. New titles are… Read More

LIBRARY DESIGN CHALLENGE BOOTCAMP SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 11:00-4:00 P.M. PEABODY LIBRARY GROUND FLOOR The Library Design Challenge is open to all Vanderbilt students interested in learning about design thinking and applying those principles to make the library’s collections, facilities, and/or programs & services more accessible and meaningful for users. … Read More

March 13, 3:00-4:00 pm Special Collections Reading Room Join Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and Professor of American Studies at Vanderbilt University Cecelia Tichi as she takes us through the many “do’s” and “don’ts” of Mrs. William Astor’s rules of manners in her… Read More

  According to the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network about 1 in 59 children, in the United States, have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.  To help our patrons better appreciate the complex communication skills and needs of people with autism, Peabody Library’s new pop-up exhibit features some… Read More

Please check out these programs, lectures and workshops taking place in the libraries in February2019. Read More

The second installment of our Spring workshop series: Tools for Creating Multimodal Works, will be held Friday in Central 418a 11:10-12:00. Continuing on our theme of creating, sharing, and preserving multimodal works, Stacy Johnson will offer a brief overview of sources of reusable content, followed by an introduction to the… Read More

Dr. Andrea Seri, Professor of Ancient History at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina will give two lectures on the Cultures in Clay exhibit.   The Cuneiform Tablets in the Vanderbilt Divinity Library Collection   Jan. 30, 4:10 PM at Divinity Library, Reference Room   Before Noah: Gilgamesh and… 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… Read More

Heather Laferriere, MLIS, is a Health Sciences Informationist at the Annette and Eskind Irwin Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center. As a reference and instruction librarian for the medical and nursing communities, some of her primary duties include literature searching, research consultations, and resource training. Heather has been with the… Read More