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Heard Libraries to explore the art of cartography Nov. 18–21

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will celebrate 2024 Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day with a series of events Nov. 18–21—including hands-on workshops, exhibits and discussions of rare maps, and a campus scavenger hunt—highlighting the significance and artistry of historical maps and map making.

West Indische Paskaert by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, c.1630-1674. Donated from The Collection of Stephen and Carina Bruce.

Tennessee, national political history celebrated in new Heard Libraries collection

Some seven decades of Tennessee and U.S. political history are commemorated in the Pitts Family Political Papers, a collection recently acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries.

Heard Libraries’ LGBTQ+ collections give voice to a community by preserving its past

Curator of Community Histories Sarah Calise is telling the stories of underrepresented groups in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, starting by steadily expanding the Heard Libraries’ LGBTQ+ collections.

Innovation defined: HD McKay is re-envisioning the role of libraries

HD McKay’s journey to Vanderbilt has taken a winding and distinctly transdisciplinary path. She considers her arrival at the university a return to her “first love”—academic librarianship—armed with a new curiosity about how best to apply the breadth of her skills as the Walker Management Library’s librarian for business and a lecturer at the Owen Graduate School of Management.

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