Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., a global media company that publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed academic journals, today announced a three-year read-and-publish agreement with Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries…. Keep reading
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. and Heard Libraries establish read-and-publish agreement in support of open science, effective January 2025
Collective success: Alex Carroll promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration
Alex Carroll, associate director of the Sarah Shannon Stevenson Science and Engineering Library, champions thinking across disciplines to meet faculty and students’ research needs.
Music Library Thanksgiving Break Hours
The Wilson Music Library will be open during Thanksgiving Break for the following hours: Sat.-Sun., Nov. 23-24: CLOSED Mon.-Wed., Nov. 25-27: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thu.-Sat., Nov. 28-30: CLOSED Sun., Dec…. Keep reading
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.
EBL will be closed on Friday, November 8th
The Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center will be closed on Friday, November 8th. The library will re-open Saturday, November 9th at 12:00 PM. EBL staff… Keep reading
Hotshot Subscription Now Available to Students, Staff, and Faculty
The Alyne Queener Massey Law Library is excited to introduce Hotshot, a digital learning platform for lawyers to help them develop their legal, business, and technology skills. The video-based learning… Keep reading
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.
Heard Libraries host 2024 Southeastern Resource Sharing Conference
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries hosted more than 100 library professionals from 21 U.S. states and Canada at the 2024 Southeastern Resource Sharing Conference held Oct. 3–4 on the Vanderbilt University campus.
