Year: 2012

Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: CLOSED Additional Hours by appointment, please call 615-322-5227 or email holling.smith-borne@vanderbilt.edu. We will be closed May 5 & 6 and on these holidays: Memorial Day Monday, May 28: CLOSED Independence Day Wednesday, July 4:… Read More

Congratulations graduates! If you’re staying in the Nashville area or have any plans to return, don’t forget to pick up your alumni card from the Commodore Card Office. Please return library materials before June 1st. Users with alumni cards staying in the Nashville area may also transfer print… Read More

Continuing students, Maymester courses will begin soon and the Music Library will be open during the summer (9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays). All library items will still be subject to recalls and due dates still apply. Please take a moment to return library materials before you… Read More

Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews William Franke, Professor of Comparative Literature, Italian, and Religious Studies, about his forthcoming book Dante and the Sense of Transgression: “The Trespass of the Sign.” Listen to the interview now or download it!… Read More

While reflecting on the development of the auto industry in the state, local businessman Nelson Andrews mentions a forum hosted by Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management called “The Auto Industry Comes to Tennessee,” an event held in conjunction with Sen. Lamar Alexander’s donation of his pre-Senate papers to the… Read More

Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews Bonnie Miller-McLemore, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling, about the new book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology, which she edited and to which she contributed the introduction. Listen to the interview now or download it!… Read More

There are many inviting study areas in our libraries. In the Central Library, try the Student Commons on the 8th Floor (individual, groups, conference and classrooms), The Payne Reading Room on the 6th floor (graduates), the Parkes Armistead Room on the 4th Floor or the Community Room on 4th… Read More

On Monday, April 23, the USS Sisyphus will attack the Tree of Learning in front of the library. This will be the submarine’s first mission. 9 students are hidden inside… guiding the vessel through the dangerous waters (grass) of the library lawn. Two clandestine attacks…. one at 2:05… Read More

Last week was a wistful one for Lamar Alexander, Tennessee’s senior U.S. senator, and former U.S. education secretary and two-term governor of Tennessee, writes editorial page editor Ted Rayburn. On Monday night, as part of an exhibit of Alexander’s papers at the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt, Alexander… Read More

Divinity Librarian Chris Benda interviews Melissa Snarr, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Divinity School and Associate Professor of Ethics and Society, about her new book, All You That Labor: Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement. Listen to the interview now or download it!… Read More