Events
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April Calendar of Events
3.30.2021 UPDATE: This event has been CANCELLED: Edible Book Festival 2021 | April 1, 2021, Noon–1:30 p.m. CT Join Alice Randall, writer-in-residence, African American and Diaspora Studies and the Vanderbilt Libraries for a re-imagined, diet conscious, intellectual celebration of food! Until we can join together in person, we will celebrate… Read MoreMar 26, 2021
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Faculty Collection Series Session Recordings Now Available
The acquisition of library resources for scholarship and teaching known as “collection development,” is a complicated process that strikes a balance between access and ownership. Factors, such as price, budget, availability, and licensing, increasingly impact the libraries’ abilities to provide the most relevant and useful set of resources for our… Read MoreMar 24, 2021
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Join Us for Two Panel Discussions on Nashville’s Founders
Vanderbilt’s libraries, the Vanderbilt University Press, and Middle Tennessee State University are teaming up to offer two Zoom webinars in the month of April on the legacy of John Donelson and James Robertson. We hope you will register to be part of these discussions. For more information, contact ACE@vanderbilt.edu. Read MoreMar 24, 2021
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Virtual Story Times for Blair Academy Students and Families
The Wilson Music Library is hosting bi-monthly virtual story times for Blair Academy students and their families. At 4:00 p.m. on March 23 and 25, Sara Manus will read Trombone Shorty by Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, illustrated by Bryan Collier. At 4:00 p.m. on April 6 and 8, she will… Read MoreMar 22, 2021
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Print & Paper from Home: Build a Commonplace Book | Two-Part Series: Fridays 3/26 and 4/2, Noon–1 p.m. CT
Heures Gotiq, 1503The Nettie Hale Rand Collection of Fine BindingsSpecial Collections Print & Paper from Home: Build a Commonplace Book Two-Part Series: Fridays 3/26 & 4/2 | Noon–1 p.m. CT Have you ever wondered how sheets of paper become a book? In this two-part series,… Read MoreMar 19, 2021
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EVENT CANCELLED: Fourth Annual Edible Books Festival Celebrates Food in Poems and Prose
3.30.2021 UPDATE: This event has been CANCELLED. We hope you will join us in 2022, when we hope to be together again in person. Join Alice Randall, writer-in-residence, African American and Diaspora Studies, and the Vanderbilt Libraries in a reimagined, diet-conscious, intellectual celebration of food! Until we can… Read MoreMar 12, 2021
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Makenzy Orcel Discusses his first Novel February 16 at 11:00am
The Immortals is set in an infamous neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, on Grand-Rue, where many women, young and old, trade in flesh, sex, and desire. We learn, in glimpses and fragments, about the lives of women who fall in love with the moving images of television, the romance of a novel, and… Read MoreFeb 2, 2021
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Demystifying Library Resources & Expenditures: Faculty Discussion Series
The acquisition of library resources for scholarship and teaching known as “collection development,” is a complicated process that strikes a balance between access and ownership. Factors, such as price, budget, availability, and licensing, increasingly impact the libraries’ abilities to provide the most relevant and useful set of resources for our… Read MoreDec 1, 2020
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Join Us for GIS Day Programming next Wednesday, November 18
The program of events is open to everyone! Join via Zoom GIS Day is an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) that was initiated by spatial analytics world-leader Esri, and first took place in 1999. Schedule: 9:00 am… Read MoreNov 12, 2020
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Zoom Q&A with Michael Alec Rose and Ali Smith, moderated by Leonard Folgarait
The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery presents: A Q&A with Ali Smith and Michael Alec Rose Moderated by Leonard Folgarait, Professor of History of Art This talk was open to the public and held via Zoom on Friday, October 30, 1:00pm CDT Join us for… Read MoreOct 28, 2020