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Books through the Ages: Genre in the Nineteenth Century | Apply Here What was the last book you got lost in? In the nineteenth century, people read potboilers for pleasure, consulted almanacs about weather, and learned how to manage their households and businesses from monthly magazines. Nineteenth-century innovations in… Read More

Gateway to Traditional Chinese Monuments: Data Curation and Web Development for Cultural Heritage Preservation | Apply Here This program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Recipients of this Buchanan Library Fellowship will help faculty to develop data for Architectura Sinica, a Chinese architectural history dynamic site archive… Read More

The Vanderbilt Libraries wish you success on your exams and a restful winter break. Here are a few things to know about Library items you have on loan: Item Due Dates: If you have an item due before the start of spring semester, we will automatically extend the due date. Read More

The Libraries are here to support students with research papers, data access, and information problem solving through the exam period and after! Subject librarian specialists continue to offer 1:1 consultations, and our continuously expanding electronic resources are available 24/7. Live Chat Hours are extended November 23 -December 13 (Chat… Read More

Case displaying illustrated editions of Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire This 8th floor room in the Central Library houses a selection of over 3,000 books on French literature, including works by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Hugo, Rimbaud, Colette, Duras, George Sand, and Francophone authors. The room is enhanced by… Read More

Artists: Back row (L to R): Jessica Wu, Katherine Xie, Annie Zheng, Jon Ma. Front row (L to R): Rachel Lee, Nazirah Khairi Vanderbilt Kefi Collective Artwork collaboration by Calendula Cheng and Isabel Kinney Every artwork in the Unprecedented Connections exhibition from Vanderbilt Kefi Collective is a joint work… Read More

The program of events is open to everyone! Join via Zoom GIS Day is an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) that was initiated by spatial analytics world-leader Esri, and first took place in 1999. Schedule: 9:00 am… Read More

Back, Spine and Front of Emerson’s Essay on Friendship From Golden Type to Wild Waves: Fine Press Books in Vanderbilt Special Collections | Apply Here William Morris used the most up-to-date nineteenth-century technology—photography—to create handmade replicas of Medieval romances and epic poems. Morris’ designers and artists at Kelsmcott Press… Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are pleased to announce the acquisition of an important collection of rare photographs of and by The Rev. James M. Lawson, a pivotal figure in the history of the civil rights movement and Vanderbilt University. Read the full story in MyVU. Read More

Intermediate Python Lessons – Tuesdays, November 3, 10, and 17 This is the fourth in a series of six lessons that cover loading data from files and working with various Python data structures including Pandas DataFrames. These lessons are appropriate for anyone who has completed the Python beginner lessons or… Read More