The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents an exhibition titled Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris from September 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010. This exhibition has borrowed many books from the Pascal Pia Collection, from the Library’s W.T. Bandy Center.  For more information about the Twilight Visions exhibition, please see http://www.fristcenter.org/site/exhibitions/exhibitiondetail.aspx?cid=688

The Library has completed negotiations with an external service to provide catalog records for our Arabic language materials, enabling us to add records for these materials to our catalog for the first time.  By outsourcing cataloging to Arabic language experts,  the library will be able to make information about our growing collection in this important [...]

Welcome to the Library! Any time you have a question, just click on the button. We’ll answer your question as fast as we can. For a printable map to all of the campus libraries and answers to question about the library that you might have, check out the 2008/2009 Guide to [...]

On July 21, Provost Richard McCarty met with the staff of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library to offer his perspective on the future of the library and its importance to the future of the university.
Provost addresses strategic vision for Heard Library

Chancellor Emeritus Alexander Heard, fifth chancellor of Vanderbilt, passed away on Friday, July 24. A memorial service was held on July 29 at Benton Chapel. Although his legacy at Vanderbilt is manifold, in 1983 the University Board of Trust recognized Heard’s work in building the university community by naming the Vanderbilt library system [...]

L-r: Library staff Celia Walker and Sue Erickson, undergraduate student Siri Kadire (winner of the grand prize drawing), and library staff Tao You and Teri Bante.

Nearly 2,300 faculty, students and staff participated in the recent survey about Vanderbilt’s libraries that is a first step in comprehensive planning for major library-enhancement efforts on campus.
“We are grateful [...]

The Heard Library system’s Electronic Classroom will be open for student study:
April 21-30, daily until 1/2 hour before closing
The Electronic Classroom is room 211, adjacent to the Divinity Library administration.
For building hours see the hours for the Central or Divinity Libraries

With Paul Gherman retiring, a search is underway for a new University Librarian. Three candidates have been invited for on-campus, two-day interviews in April. In sessions open to the University community, April 17, 22, and 29, each of the three will talk about the thinking and planning that will need to go into a comprehensive [...]

Faculty Delivery Service is now offered to users with Faculty Surrogate accounts. This service provides faculty, and now their authorized designated borrowers, with campus deliveries of both Vanderbilt and interlibrary loan materials. Users with a faculty surrogate card can configure or create an account in the ILL/Faculty Delivery system to place requests. When users log [...]

The Jean and Alexander Heard Library now delivers VU and ILL materials to faculty on campus. Loans are delivered to department offices; copies are delivered electronically. (Eskind Biomedical Library offers a separate document delivery service for Medical and Nursing School faculty.)
Faculty deliveries are now handled along with interlibrary loans. To use the Faculty Delivery Service, [...]