November 29-December 18th: during all open building hours, until 1/2 hour before closing. The Electronic Classroom is room 211, adjacent to the Divinity Library administration offices For building hours see the Extended Hours for the Central or Divinity libraries

All libraries will be closed for Thanksgiving. Library hours surrounding the Holiday vary. See Holiday Hours for all Libraries for times.

The Library’s Geographic Information Systems service is hosting its second annual GIS Day event this Wednesday, November 18 in the Peabody Library Learning Commons from 12-1:30 pm. Several Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students from various disciplines will speak about how they use GIS. More information, including a printable flier and a schedule of speakers, is [...]

October is National Information Literacy Month

Library Annex service for periodical article requests has been enhanced. We now offer email delivery of articles, within a four-hour window of receipt, Monday – Friday, until 4:30 p.m. The form for requesting articles to be faxed from periodicals housed at the Annex has been revised. The form is now a [...]

Banned Books Week September 26 - October 3, 2009

“Intellectual freedom can exist only where two essential conditions are met: first, that all individuals have the right to hold any belief on any subject and to convey their ideas in any form they deem appropriate; and second, that society makes an equal commitment to the right [...]

The Commodore Card has been redesigned for the first time in 12 years. The new card takes advantage of updated technology and provides greater security.  In the coming academic year, cards belonging to university students, faculty, and staff will be replaced.  Cards will continue to function seamlessly as borrowing cards for library materials and [...]

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 is a co-sponsor of the 23rd Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, hosted by the Graduate Student Council on Monday, March 30, 2009.
http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/gsc/2008/10/033009-gsrs-keynote-speaker-susan-basalla/

Be Brilliant, Be Involved –
Take the Heard Library system’s LibQUAL+ Survey

As we plan for the future of the Jean & Alexander Heard Library system, it is important that we understand our users’ perceptions and expectations so that we can provide the services you, our users, need. We will be conducting a survey from March [...]