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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

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery presents: A Q&A with Ali Smith and Michael Alec Rose Moderated by Leonard Folgarait, Professor of History of Art This talk was open to the public and held via Zoom on Friday, October 30, 1:00pm CDT Join us for… Read More

We bring back to your attention this 2014 library exhibition, The Fight for Freedom, containing compelling letters, rare broadsides, and audio and video recordings which serve as witnesses to powerful moments in America’s history. Among the themes in this exhibition, Ministers as Activists includes just a few of the… Read More

Raquelle K. Bostow, Mellon postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University, and a team of six undergraduate students from Fisk University have created the digital retrospective “Women of Rosenwald: Curating Social Justice through the Arts (1928-1948).” The exhibit, made possible through the Mellon Partners for Humanities Education program, sheds light on a… Read More

Absentee Voting: Still need to print your voting form, or grab mailing materials to absentee vote? VSG has you covered with a kiosk in Central Library with everything you need! The kiosk poster has the QR code to take you to Turbo Vote, where you can access the forms you… Read More