Year: 2008

The Central, Divinity, Music, Peabody, and Science & Engineering libraries have Dell laptops available for checkout. Peabody Library also has Mac iBooks. More information is available at: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/heard/circlaptops.shtml… Read More

Looking for a place to study? The libraries provide a variety of study spaces. In addition to open seating, there are group study rooms and study carrels that can be reserved. For more information, please see: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/heard/studyrooms… Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Library delivers VU and ILL materials to faculty and faculty surrogates 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 handled along with interlibrary… Read More

We currently have a trial for ReferenceUSA.  For more information and to review the resource, please visit the ETrials Blog at the URL below.  Trial ends August 31, 2008. http://weblog.library.vanderbilt.edu/etrials/… Read More

The library currently has a free trial to Cambridge Histories Online.  For more information and to review the resource, please visit the ETrials Blog.  Trial ends October 3, 2008. http://weblog.library.vanderbilt.edu/etrials/… Read More

ITS will be installing a new power panel in the Hill data center on Sunday morning August 10th between 11:30pm (Saturday evening) and 6:30am. During this time they will need to turn-off several library servers resulting in some services being unavailable. These services include: VUPrint etd server SFX (Findit@VU) All… Read More

Connie Dowell, currently the dean of the library and information access at San Diego State University has been appointed dean of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt. Visionary leadership among strengths of new dean of Vanderbilt Heard Library… Read More

The Library has set up trials with two sources which provide demographic and mapping data.  For more information and to review these resources, please visit the Trial Databases blog.  Trials are only available on campus and end July 11, 2008. http://weblog.library.vanderbilt.edu/etrials/  … Read More

Did you know you could renew library materials online? To renew your materials online, login to your ACORN account. You may renew materials checked out from any Vanderbilt library. There is a limit to the number of times an online renewal will be allowed. For further information on… Read More

Beginning July 1, 2008, all libraries on campus (with the exception of Central Library) will cease charging fines for books that are overdue. This policy does not apply to recalled items that are overdue. Read More