Year: 2008

Library News Online is a blog that provides faculty, students, staff and scholars up to date information about the resources, services, events and activities of the Heard Library. We encourage you to send us suggestions and comments about the type of news that will support your research. You are… Read More

“Who Speaks for the Negro,”  is a newly created database and website, that includes digital audio of interviews Robert Penn Warren made in preparation for his 1965 book of the same title.  The interviewees include a variety of people who were involved in the Civil Rights Movement.  The library database… Read More

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… Read More

Peabody Library will be open 24 hours beginning on April 22 and lasting until 6 pm on May 5. Read More

Vanderbilt will be getting access to all Duke University Press publications in electronic format as we participate in a pilot program.  By subscribing to the front-list (2008 publications), we will also have access to all of the previously published titles, accessed via the Ebrary e-book reader platform. Several features of… Read More

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… Read More