Year: 2019

This January, the Music Library upgraded its subscription to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature to include full-text content from more than 200 music periodicals from 50 countries. We retain access to RILM’s extensive international abstracts, and are pleased to offer enhanced access to content for research in musicology and ethnomusicology. Read More

Want some background on a religious topic from people you can trust?  Browse to Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Religion, where you’ll find articles about subjects like African Religions, Hinduism, Religion and Art, and Religion in America, among other categories. All of the articles are written by scholars who work… Read More

Margaret Ann Trotter (MAT) has worked for the Vanderbilt University Libraries since 1979.  She began working in the Divinity Library, moved to several other positions around the system, then returned ‘home’ to Divinity in 1994.  Her current position is Manager of Leganto Service; Coordinator of Divinity Reserves. What is something… Read More

The Cochrane Collaboration will be releasing version 6 of the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews and Interventions this year. They are providing webinar on the new handbook on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at  8:00 AM Central Time. For more information and to register, please visit, https://training.cochrane.org/introduction-new-cochrane-handbook-systematic-reviews-interventions-version-6.    … Read More

  Hoppin’ Johns Native to the South Carolina low country, Hoppin’ John is a classic Southern New Year’s dish, but where does the name come from, and why is eating it considered good luck? These questions have intrigued southerners, cooks and food historians for… Read More

RILM Music Encyclopedias offers comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of a variety of subjects and topics in musicology and ethnomusicology including popular music, opera, women composers, and blues and gospel. Currently encompassing 54 titles dating from 1775 to the present, RILM Music Encyclopedias will continue to expand. Titles include Algemene… Read More

Martin Luther King, Jr. is being celebrated on January 21 this year. To learn more about the civil rights leader’s lasting impact on the United States and beyond, take a look at the Vanderbilt Libraries TV News Archive.  This clip is of a service from MLK’s home church… 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

Vanderbilt students, faculty, and staff now have access to medici.tv, “the world’s leading classical music channel.” Watch full-length concerts, ballets, operas, masterclasses, and documentaries, and tune in to special live-streamed events. Content includes performances from the Verbier Festival, Glyndebourne, the Salzburg Festival, and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Access medici.tv from… Read More

January 2019 is a great month for free information. Public Domain Day on January 1st marked the first time in 20 years that films, books, artworks and more created in 1923 came into the Public Domain. Studies have shown that public domain books are less expensive, available in more editions… Read More