FEATURED
The Commons is NOT your parent’s freshman dorm
The Commons, a brand new community of first-year students, residential faculty and professional staff, welcomed its first class last fall. This is not your parents’ freshman dorm. All first-year students live in The Commons in one of 10 new residence halls called houses, which are grouped around quads on the Peabody side of campus.
Q&A with Dean of Libraries Connie Vinita Dowell
Connie Vinita Dowell, a Vanderbilt University graduate with three decades of experience working in academic libraries including two senior leadership positions, became the first dean of libraries at Vanderbilt on March 1.
Spring 2009 Issue
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Vanderbilt students offer music piracy solutions
At Vanderbilt University, college students—the group most targeted by the recording industry for prosecution for illegal downloading—are proposing solutions instead of adding to the problem.
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Timely pass gives Wirth a great book
Two other teammates had read the novel Redeeming Love when they sent it Christina Wirth’s way after her freshman year. The fictional work by Francine Rivers turned out to be a page-turner that dramatized religious truth like no novel Wirth had encountered before.
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McCarty haunted by A Thousand Splendid Suns
Vanderbilt Provost Richard McCarty turns to fiction only rarely, usually as a relaxing mental escape. But he miscalculated when he picked up A Thousand Splendid Suns.
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- Special Collections: 1955 Gator Bowl Win
- Champagne, poetry highlight Bandy Center 40th anniversary party
- Online exhibit honors astronomer Barnard
- Library helps make Robert Penn Warren interviews accessible via Internet
- Divinity Library displays three loaned artworks
FROM THE DEAN
Creating a destination library
This is my first letter to all of you and is an invitation to join us in planning the future of Vanderbilt’s libraries.
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