Vise Library, Cumberland University

The library will be open through the summer! Catch up on your favorite series or stop by to see your librarians!

"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!" - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

No matter where you go or what you do, you will always have a place at CU!

Finals got you stressed? Take a break! Join the Art of Life tomorrow for a 15-minute Yoga Pop-Up event. Meeting in Vise Library's Classroom 1 at 11am - we'll see you there!

Take a moment to relax this week with Mary Oliver's works, available in Vise Library!

Countdown to summer! One week left!

The Library has all your finals needs! Book a study room, borrow a textbook, or just catch your breath at the Charge Bar. Don't worry, you've got this!

ATTENTION: Vise Library will be closed on Friday 4/18 and Sunday 4/20 in observance of the holidays. We will return to our normal hours on Monday 4/21.

Don't forget! Join us today in the Vise Library at 2pm to celebrate April’s National Poetry Month! Contemporary Poetry students will present poems that have meaning for them during their study of poetry, and you can share too! We'll see you there!

Don't forget to join us tomorrow in Vise Library at 2pm for Senior Artist Talks!

Find meaning in PAUSING for Poetry this week. Join us in a casual sharing and appreciation for April’s National Poetry Month this coming Wednesday in the Vise Library at 2pm! The class members of Professor Gertz’s Contemporary Poetry Literature course will present poems that have come to have meaning for them during their study of poetry, and you're invited to share a poem you love or a poem you wrote! We'll see you there!

Join us this coming Tuesday in Vise Library at 2pm! Graduating BFA students Isabella Bouch and Addasyn Brewington will speak on their artistic practices and discuss their senior thesis exhibition!

"The Great Gatsby" was published 100 years ago today, April 10, 1925.

100 years later, 'The Great Gatsby' still speaks to the troubled dream of America Great works of art are great, in part, because they continue to have something to say to the present: They're both timebound and timeless. And, boy, does Gatsby have something to say to us in 2025.