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February 16 Panel Discussion: “The Morgan, The Woman, and Her Illuminated Life”

Posted on February 15, 2023February 10, 2023 by Celia Walker

Please join us Thursday, February 16, Noon–1:00 p.m. in the Central Library Community Room for a moderated lunchtime panel (lunch served first come, first serve) on the life of one… Keep reading

Text and picture of woman with her head resting on her gloved hand
Categories: Books, Exhibits, Heard Homepage, Special Collections

Exhibition Opening: The Reinvented Life of Belle da Costa Greene

Posted on February 12, 2023February 14, 2023 by Celia Walker

Please join us Tuesday, February 14, Noon–1:00 p.m. in the libraries’ Special Collections for a reception catered by Hattie B’s for the exhibition, The Reinvented Life of Belle da Costa… Keep reading

woman resting her head on a gloved hand
Categories: Books, Current Exhibit, Events, Exhibits, Heard Homepage, Special Collections

Virtual Exhibit for Black Studies As (A) Movement: AADS @50 Now Available

Posted on November 11, 2022November 18, 2022 by Shore Griffin

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… Keep reading

Categories: Exhibits, Heard Homepage, Teaching and Learning

“Education, Preparation, Negotiation”: Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. and His Legacy of Nonviolence

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Celia Walker

The libraries are pleased to announce a timely exhibition on the life of Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. now on display in Central Library’s foyer and on an accompanying online… Keep reading

protestors sitting with linked arms talking to police
Categories: Divinity, Exhibits, Heard Homepage, Special Collections

Closing Soon: Fine Press Books Exhibition

Posted on August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 by Celia Walker

Don’t miss seeing From Golden Type to Double Gilt: Fine Press Books at Vanderbilt Libraries, which runs through August 28, 2022, in Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives Library on… Keep reading

exhibition wall text and cases
Categories: Books, Buchanan Fellows, Current Exhibit, Exhibits, Heard Homepage, Special Collections

2012-2022: A Decade of Library Fellows

Posted on August 8, 2022August 8, 2022 by Celia Walker

2012-2022: A Decade of Library Fellows Online Exhibition In spring 2012 Dean Connie Dowell established the first library fellowship, with a little bit of extra funding and a lot of… Keep reading

exhibit cases and interactive touchscreen
Categories: Current Exhibit, Exhibits, Heard Homepage

Ophthalmology Pioneers of Nashville

Posted on June 7, 2022August 8, 2022 by Shore Griffin

The History of Medicine Collections has collaborated with Dr. Karla Johns and the Vanderbilt Eye Institute on a new exhibit on the evolution of the ophthalmoscope and of ophthalmology pioneers… Keep reading

Categories: Current Exhibit, Exhibits, Heard Homepage, Special Collections

Foujita’s Cats &c.

Posted on June 7, 2022October 10, 2022 by Shore Griffin

Artists, writers, models and creatives met, partied, and worked in the cafes, bars and restaurants of Montparnasse, the 14th arrondissement of Paris. In the early 20th century, artists drawn to… Keep reading

Categories: Exhibits, Fine Arts Gallery, Past Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition

Retrocomputing

Posted on May 18, 2022August 8, 2022 by Shore Griffin

What’s old is new again. In 2020, a group of retrocomputing enthusiasts published Nox Archaist, a new role-playing adventure game for the 1983 Apple IIe computer. Why would anyone write… Keep reading

Categories: Current Exhibit, Exhibits, Heard Homepage, Science, Science & Engineering Library

Pop Up Exhibit: Octavia Butler

Posted on May 13, 2022October 10, 2022 by Teresa Gray

Octavia Butler: Grand Dame of Science Fiction Central Library Lobby May-July 2022 Octavia Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction author.  In her early publishing career, she was one of… Keep reading

Categories: Central, Exhibits, Heard Homepage, Past Library Exhibit, Special CollectionsTags: #specialcollections, #vandylibraries, exhibits, Octavia_Butler, sciencefiction

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