Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the contributions of self-identifying women to science, technology, engineering, and math. So to celebrate their achievements, Vanderbilt Libraries and the Wond’ry are gathering at the Wond’ry on Tuesday October 9th to share their work on Wikipedia’s pages. While Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in the world, notching up more… Keep reading
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Ada Lovelace Day Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Oct 9
Celebrate the Open Access Movement with Us
Every October, the academic and research community worldwide celebrates Open Access Week to highlight the efforts and achievements of the Open Access Movement. In past years, Vanderbilt’s Libraries have used Open Access Week to explore such topics as open access publishing, authors’ rights, gender issues, and green and gold open access. Vanderbilt’s OA Week 2019 theme for… Keep reading
“Black Studies As (A) Movement: AADS @50” Exhibit Opens at Vanderbilt’s Special Collections
An exhibit marking fifty years of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University will be on display in Vanderbilt University’s Special Collections through November 2019. The exhibit highlights materials held in Vanderbilt University Special Collections, University Archives, as well as items loaned from the Department of African American and Diaspora Studies. The Department of… Keep reading
Curator’s Talk 9/5: Food for Wealth and Health: Five Centuries of Cookbooks and Recipes
Join the Special Collections Library for fascinating talks this semester led by librarians, archivists, and curators. Topics this fall will range from cookbook collections to the 1969 Moon Walk. The talks take place monthly in the Special Collections Reading Room on the second floor of the Central & Divinity Libraries building on the first Thursday… Keep reading
Welcome to the Law Library!
On behalf of the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library, welcome to Vanderbilt Law School! TOURS: We will be offering 30-minute tours during Orientation Week. If you are interested in a tour, meet at the Law Library Service Desk at the following times: Tuesday at 2:15 pm and 3:15 pm Wednesday at 2:15 pm Thursday at… Keep reading
Spring/Summer 2019 Quarterly Report
The latest issue of the Libraries’ Quarterly Report, Spring/Summer 2019 is now available for reading.
VU community discussion of 2019 Commons Reading set for July 23
The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center and the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will host a discussion of the 2019 Commons Reading, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah, on Tuesday, July 23. All in the Vanderbilt community are invited to read the book and join in the discussion. The event is scheduled for noon… Keep reading
Book Love Interviews Reveal Treasures
What was your favorite book as a child? Has it stayed important to you as you reread it? Do you travel with a copy of your favorite novel? The library vlog Book Love celebrates reading and how books connect us. Clips of interviews with colleagues, students, faculty and visiting speakers about their favorite books will… Keep reading
Libraries’ Winter/Spring 2019 Quarterly Report
The latest issue of the Libraries’ Quarterly Report, Winter/Spring 2019 is now available for reading. You may find the issue online at: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/9467 Earlier issues are archived online and available at: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/9282
Resource Spotlight: Religious Magazine Archive
The Religious Magazine Archive is a collection of 22 periodicals that represent a variety of religious traditions. The coverage of the entire collection ranges from 1845 to 2015. Contents include The American Theosophist, The Catholic World, Islamic Horizons, and The Sikh Messenger, among other titles. More popular than scholarly, these magazines show how religious traditions… Keep reading