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DAR WILLIAMS Book Signing and Discussion The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, and the Office for Student Transitions and Community Engagement present Dar Williams, a critically acclaimed writer, who will share with us her book “How to… Read More

Author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength and of Bechdel test fame will be discussing her career and artistic process with the wider Vanderbilt and Nashville community. This event is free and open to the public. There will be a… Read More

Nashville Business Journal Online Access!   All current Vanderbilt students, staff, and faculty now have digital access to The Nashville Business Journal. You can register for an individual account using your Vanderbilt email address. Your account can be used on up to 4 devices. … Read More

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 exhibition.  The exhibition contains documents, photographs and realia from more than seven decades of Lawson’s life which capture moments… Read More

Join your friends for a spooky movie night in Central Library, Thursday, October 27 at 8:00 p.m. Our featured film is NOPE, a 2022 Horror/Sci-Fi film from writer/director Jordan Peele. Refreshments and bottled water will be provided while supplies last. Grab your friends and have a movie night on Central… Read More

This workshop will offer tips and strategies for using the Vanderbilt Television News Archive in your next research project on American politics. The Archive can be used to develop assignments requiring students to research relevant topics and develop critical thinking skills and using evidence to support arguments, which are useful… Read More

Vanderbilt Libraries invite you to this timely panel discussion, reception and book signing funded by the Wild Bunch Programming and Lecture Fund. Please register for this event. Data Dilemmas: The Past, Present, and Future of our Privacy Thursday, October 6, 2022, 5:00 p.m. CT Central Library Community… Read More

New Art, New Directions: Recent Acquisitions Exhibit Open House, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2:00–4:00 p.m. Vanderbilt Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, New Art, New Directions: Recent Acquisitions features thirty-one artworks added to the collection between 2013 and 2022. Yusef Lateef’s complex “autophysiopsychic music” score drawings and jailed Cuban dissident-artist Luis… Read More

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 our collections. For centuries miniature books have captured the imagination of readers around the world. Miniature books require specific skills… Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries joined colleagues across campus to welcome new students back to campus for the fall 2022 semester. In addition to college and school-specific orientation activities, a dozen library staff participated in information fairs and orientations across campus. The libraries had a combined presence at the… Read More