Collections

Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives recently acquired the Dinah Shore Collection, documenting the life of Vanderbilt graduate Dinah Shore, BA’38, a prolific singer, actress and talk show host… Keep reading

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries recently received a major archival collection, The John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie Collection, as part of the collaborative Academic Archives Purchasing Fund with the National… Keep reading

A number of new titles were added over the year: Two additional, full-text products on the RIPM platform were acquired: RIPM Jazz and European and North American Music Periodicals. Vanderbilt… Keep reading

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is excited to share news of the Kress Collection Digital Archive, a comprehensive archive and database for the nearly 3,500 works of European art… Keep reading

Rare photographs of and by the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., a pivotal figure in the history of the civil rights movement and Vanderbilt University, have been acquired by the… Keep reading

Early in the pandemic, Vanderbilt University Special Collections began to collect the University’s response to COVID-19. We knew that we had little in our collections relating to the 1918 Influenza… Keep reading

We are grateful to the Joseph L. May History of the Print Fund and the Sam Fleming Southern Civilization Fund for their support of the recently acquired limited-edition pop-up artist’s… Keep reading

The libraries launched a series of webinars over the spring semester that explored key library collection issues that impact research and study at Vanderbilt. The acquisition of library resources for… Keep reading

The WT Bandy Center launched a new online series of recorded talks by leading scholars who consulted the Bandy Collections, advancing their scholarly work. This series coincided with the 2021… Keep reading