Scope and content: A variety of items, mostly relating to shopping malls located in Nashville or surrounding communities. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item. Items are often mall brochures, showing the general floor plan and location and types of stores within the mall. Particularly significant are mall brochures from 2009 for Opry Mills Mall, which was inundated by the 2010 flood; and a 1958 booklet promoting...

Scope and content: A variety of materials concerning the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate between Republican candidate John McCain and Democratic candidate Barack Obama held at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 7, 2008. Items include numerous materials relating to the university and city's roles in hosting and promoting the debate, including reports, programs, special events, publicity materials, corporate sponsorships, community engagement,...

Scope and content: A variety of materials documenting various ethnic groups and nationalities in Nashville. Most items date from the early 21st century. Also includes some materials from organizations who assist new residents from other countries, educate the public about languages and cultures, or aid foreign visitors and immigrants in acculturation to the United States and Middle Tennessee in particular. Quantity of materials is generally less than...

Scope and content: A variety of materials concerning film showings, film festivals, venues, and other items relating to film culture in Nashville, Tenn., predominantly from the early 21st century. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Most folders contain less than ten items, and often only a single item. Materials include: Belcourt Theatre showings and events; Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) and its predecessor, Sinking...

Abstract: Printouts from portions of the Occupy Nashville website (www.occupynashville.org) selected and printed by Nashville Public Library Special Collections Division staff in the spring of 2012. Materials date from Oct. 2011 through March 2012. Scope and content: Approximately half of the collection consists of minutes from meetings of Occupy Nashville's own "General Assembly," beginning on Oct. 9, 2011 and continuing through Feb. 2012 (the...

Scope and Content: This collection includes 35 audio-recorded interviews created in 2015 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in partnership with the Music Industry Coalition and the Nashville Public Library. The time periods covered within the interviews range from the 1940s to 2015. Each interview has a transcript, and most have indexes. Primary topics addressed in the interviews include: individuals' stories of how they got started...

Scope and content: Papers of Cynthia Maddux, documenting her personal life; her dance education in Nashville, Tenn. with instructor Albertine Maxwell; her international career as a professional dancer in the 1970s and its sudden end; and her struggles with mental illness in the years that followed. Among the dancers documented in this collection are: Jose Molina; Luis Montero; Nala Najan; La Meri; Luis Rivera; Madame Sahomi Tachibana; Bhaskar; and...