Shore Griffin

Join colleagues this Monday, April 17, for an in-person information session, catered lunch and workshop on how the International Image Interoperability Framework expands faculty research capabilities. Facilitated by Loyola University of Maryland Associate Professor of Philosophy, Jeffrey Witt, Ph.D., who will share the potential for IIIF in research, using examples… Read More

First session: Friday, March 24, 11:00 AM-noon CDT in the Science and Engineering Library Seminar Room (SC 3211). Registration for Zoom or in-person: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdumurDMpGNwU2dGQPwVDN_4RMdI_02k_ Second session (same content): Friday, March 31, 11:00 AM-noon CDT in the Eskind Biomedical Library Training Room (EBL lower level). Registration for Zoom or in-person:… Read More

Skip Pfeiffer worked on the TV news archive index for 13 years before switching to abstract writing, which he does to this day. (photographer unknown/Vanderbilt) The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Vanderbilt Television News Archive recognize Skip Pfeiffer for reaching the 50-year milestone at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Mary Magdalene, long diminished by the church as the penitent sinner or prostitute, is almost universally represented at the feet of Jesus in church-commissioned art. This exhibition Reclaim Mary Magdalene featuring four contemporary artists, Lázaro Ceballos Fernández, Laura James, Janet McKenzie and Sue Ellen Parkinson, on the contrary, portrays Mary… Read More

Vanderbilt University is making big plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the university, dating from Cornelius Vanderbilt’s letter of March 17, 1873, in which he offered to endow a university in the Nashville area. In honor of that event, our distinctive collections curators… Read More

VU History is a new podcast series created by Vanderbilt student Jaylan Sims, a communications and political science major. Episode one explores the Vanderbilt Television News Archive and delves into topics related to objective news sources, comparisons of local, national, cable, and new media broadcast options. Jaylan is a… Read More

Extended Library Hours Most of the undergraduate libraries are open extended hours for finals.  Science & Engineering, Peabody, Central and Divinity libraries will be open 24/7 from Tuesday, December 6 through Saturday, December 17. Check the hours page for individual library schedules. Study Rooms available for booking You… Read More

Buchanan Library Fellowships Celebration of Learning You are invited to a Celebration of Learning for the fall 2022 Buchanan Library Fellowships. Join us this Thursday as students share their final projects and reflections on their experience. Student presentations will start at 4:15 p.m., with a reception and refreshments to… Read More

The 2022 Free and Open Source Software for GIS users meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee Nov. 31–Dec. 2, is being hosted at Vanderbilt University at the Digital Commons. Co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Libraries Office of Digital Scholarship and Communications and the Vanderbilt Institute of Spatial Research, it’s an opportunity for FOSS… Read More

Vanderbilt Libraries is pleased to announce the virtual exhibit for  Black Studies As (A) Movement: AADS @50 is now available.  The exhibit draws content from the physical exhibit that ran from September 2019 to January 2020 in Special Collections.  It celebrates and documents 50 years of history, growth, and… Read More