Gilded treasures belonging to university founder Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and railroad magnate and one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century, are among the items featured in All That Glitters: Silver and Gold at Vanderbilt, currently on display at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives.
An exhibit currently on display at Vanderbilt’s Central Library explores the lesser-known history of some of the university’s earliest students. Cherokee and Chickasaw Students at Vanderbilt, 1885–1899 is the result of… Keep reading
In 2022, as Vanderbilt’s 150th anniversary approached, recent graduates Allen Zeng, BA’23, and Richard Zhang, BA’23, set out to capture the essence of the university by photographing its community members…. Keep reading
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
New Exhibition in Special Collections: Miniature Books from the Vanderbilt Libraries by Molly Dohrmann A new exhibition, opening this fall in Special Collections, highlights some of the smallest books in… Keep reading
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
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
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
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
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
