Year: 2020

Music Library users can use the library catalog to request materials for contactless pickup from the Music Library. After your initial search of the library catalog, sign in with your VUnet ID/password to take advantage of this service. This video shows you how: https://youtu.be/uQ9UrcSEfNE… Read More

Peabody librarians have created a new digital Library Research Channel, designed to demystify the research process: https://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/peabodyresearch. The Research Channel has content for everyone: Undergraduate students – university-level research includes several parts, and starting early will help make sure you’re not pushing everything until the last minute. Find… Read More

The Management Library is continuing to provide library services, along with even more ways to connect with us: Virtual office hours: Monday–Friday, 3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Ask us for the link. Live chat with librarians: Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Library consultations are available via Skype or Zoom. Email… Read More

On November 3 Americans will cast their ballots at polls all across the country. Thanks to the work of Alice Paul and women’s suffragists in each of our United States, women will vote alongside men.  Exactly 100 years ago today, on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th and final… Read More

As part of a short series, the Heard Libraries are highlighting unique experiences from Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff through the lens of donations to the Vanderbilt COVID-19 Archive. This archive will provide future historians and researchers detailed insight into the pandemic and how it affected members of the campus… Read More

We are pleased to report that the Libraries have extended our agreement with Hathi Trust’s Emergency Temporary Access Service that provides electronic access to many items in our print circulating collections for current students, faculty and staff at Vanderbilt, both onsite and remote. Read More

The well-received contactless materials checkout system checkout@VandyLibraries introduced last year in the Biomedical, Central, Divinity and Peabody libraries is expanding this fall to the Management and Science libraries.  Take a minute now to download the checkout@VandyLibraries app, available for both iPhone and Android, so you are ready to safely check… Read More

“Vanderbilt’s librarians are harnessing the power of Wikidata to enhance the online reputations of Vanderbilt’s faculty and our overall status as a tier-one research university,” University Librarian Valerie Hotchkiss said. “These efforts also advance the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ broader mission of contributing to the public good… Read More

Vanderbilt’s spring 2020 class of Buchanan Library Fellows, who signed on for immersive research experiences, embraced skills they had not expected to use during the COVID-19 pandemic. See the Vanderbilt News story here. The story was picked up by the Association of Research Libraries’ August 6 Day in… Read More

The Music Library will be open on Friday, Aug. 21. Hours for Fall semester will be: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 8 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday 8 a.m.–5 p.m. The Music Library offers a variety of socially distanced space for studying and taking online classes. Please bring your headphones. Read More