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The Wilson Music Library has a wide range of equipment available for checkout to VU students, faculty, and staff, including MIDI keyboards, Zoom video and audio recorders, microphones, audio interfaces, and microphones. See the full selection of equipment and individual availability on our Equipment for Loan page. Read More

Join us for a panel discussion with a group of seniors, members of the Class of 2023, who as first-year students were selected to have their work published in Scaffold: A Showcase of Vanderbilt First-Year Writing, Vol. 2 (Spring 2020). We’ll be asking them to reflect back on… Read More

Extended Library Hours Most of the undergraduate libraries are open extended hours for finals.  Science & Engineering, Peabody, Central and Divinity libraries will be open 24/7 from Tuesday, December 6 through Saturday, December 17. Check the hours page for individual library schedules. Study Rooms available for booking You… Read More

Buchanan Library Fellowships Celebration of Learning You are invited to a Celebration of Learning for the fall 2022 Buchanan Library Fellowships. Join us this Thursday as students share their final projects and reflections on their experience. Student presentations will start at 4:15 p.m., with a reception and refreshments to… Read More

We are excited to announce a new program that we are piloting in the Spring 2023 term titled “Write On!”  This program will take advantage of new and existing resources to support and guide writing progress and productivity during your academic training at Vanderbilt through a radical collaboration between The… Read More

The 2022 Free and Open Source Software for GIS users meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee Nov. 31–Dec. 2, is being hosted at Vanderbilt University at the Digital Commons. Co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Libraries Office of Digital Scholarship and Communications and the Vanderbilt Institute of Spatial Research, it’s an opportunity for FOSS… Read More

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 from September 2019 to January 2020 in Special Collections.  It celebrates and documents 50 years of history, growth, and… Read More

Join us on GIS Day 2022, Wednesday, November 16 1–2 p.m., Central Library, Room 418A – Getting Started with ArcGIS Online StoryMaps – Learn to make a StoryMap, see examples, and get resources. 2–3 p.m., Library Lawn* – Geophysics on the Lawn – Ground Penetrating Radar Demo *If inclement weather,… Read More

Join library staff on Zoom as we explore newly accessible materials in distinctive collections. We’ll follow up on collections that were recently digitized, including collections from Delia Zapata Olivella, Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr., John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, Yusef A. Lateef and Senator… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Inclusive Book Group will meet online Wednesday, Nov. 9, to discuss The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. The virtual gathering, hosted by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center in partnership with the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and Vanderbilt Human… Read More