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Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is an entirely new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive,… Read More

What is a library? There may be as many ways to answer that question as there are answers for it. We are used to answering with words, but it is also possible to answer a question with images, which is what assistant professor of art Vesna Pavlovic’s Photography II class… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Center for Latin American Studies will host a public conversation and reception with Alberto Fuguet, an acclaimed Chilean author, journalist and filmmaker, on March 22 at Fido in Hillsboro Village. The event begins at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. (more) Works… Read More

Listen while Ann Marie Deer Owens interviews Kathy Smith, Associate Director of Special Collections and University Archives, about the exhibit, Mark Twain: An American Original. Why do people still like Twain today? Tune in and find out…. Read More

Trial runs through April 30, 2010. Click here to access Springer Materials. Read More

During e-week, cash prizes, and collegial competition. Find more info click here. Read More

Videocast “Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910” Sponsored by the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, Central Library and the Department of French & Italian Jeff Jackson, Professor of… Read More

Paris Underwater: How the City of Light Survived the Flood of 1812 Article in City Paper about lecture From City Paper: IF YOU GO What: Author and historian Jeffrey H. Jackson reads from and signs copies of his new book Paris Under Water: How The City of Light… Read More

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents an exhibition titled Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris from September 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010. This exhibition has borrowed many books from the Pascal Pia Collection, from the Library’s W.T. Bandy Center.  For more information about the Twilight Visions exhibition,… Read More

The Library has completed negotiations with an external service to provide catalog records for our Arabic language materials, enabling us to add records for these materials to our catalog for the first time.  By outsourcing cataloging to Arabic language experts,  the library will be able to make information about our… Read More