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We invite you to visit the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery for these July events: Exhibit Tour, Tuesday, July 5, 2022, Noon – 1:00 p.m. (the first Tuesday of the month) Join curator for a guided tour of the current exhibition Foujita’s Cats &c. with focus on a specific… Read More

School of Nursing Dean Pamela R. Jeffries and Philip Walker, recipient of the School of Nursing Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service to Faculty and Students Eskind Biomedical Library Director Philip Walker was recognized at the May 2022 Vanderbilt School of Nursing awards ceremony for outstanding service to faculty and… Read More

The Office of LGBTQI Life and the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are hosting an outdoor movie night at the KC Potter Center featuring Brian Wayne Peterson and James Babbit’s 1999 American satirical romantic teen comedy film But I’m a Cheerleader. BYOB (Bring Your Own Blanket – and pillow!)… Read More

As noted in today’s story in MyVU, Vanderbilt has temporarily reinstated the indoor masking protocols on campus. A few of the protocols of note: New masking protocols go into effect Monday, June 20 Wear a mask indoors if you cannot maintain 6 feet of physical distancing from others Masking… Read More

[Optic Disc Edema], Susan H. Wilkes, 1932. Susan H. Wilkes Collection. Vanderbilt University History of Medicine CollectionsThe 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 in Nashville. Along with… Read More

Jon Shaw has been appointed the new leader of the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University, effective July 1. Previously, Shaw served as associate vice provost and deputy university librarian for the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. With experience in collaborative partnerships, strategic initiatives and digital strategy, as well… Read More

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 8-bit games for an obsolete platform released nearly forty years ago? In this exhibit, located in the Stevenson Science and… Read More

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 the few Black women authors in a field dominated by white men.   Extremely shy as a child, she… Read More

Before you leave for the summer, please return your library books to any campus library or library book drop before you depart.  If you will be in town for the summer, come see us in the libraries during our summer hours. Congratulations to all who are graduating!… Read More

Yusef Lateef posing with some of his instruments, including an oboe, flute, and baritone saxophone, Vanderbilt University Special Collections The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, in partnership with the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM), have acquired the research materials of Grammy-winning musician Yusef Abdul Lateef. Lateef’s musical… Read More