Heard Libraries Communications

Tuesday November 14, 2017 The Wond’ry @ Vanderbilt University 2414 Highland Ave #102, Nashville, TN 37213 10:00am to 3:00pm   Speaker: Dr. Alice White, Wellcome Library, London Schedule 10:30                     Dr. Alice White, “Women and Wikipedia in the Wellcome Collections” 11:15                     How to… Read More

This exhibition will be curated by a cohort of Buchanan Library Fellows and their librarian mentors. The J. León Helguera Collection of Colombiana is a unique resource housed by the Vanderbilt University Library. The Collection is comprised of thousands of pamphlets, newspapers, books, and broadsides from 19th-century Colombia. Over the past… Read More

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive now has a monthly podcast called News Knowledge, which you can subscribe to through iTunes, or listen to by going to our News Knowledge website. In this podcast we explore the many ways that the Vanderbilt Television News Archive’s collection of national news broadcasts… Read More

The Libraries are working on a number of projects that address accessibility issues for persons with print disabilities or whose disabilities do not allow them to use printed books. Individuals on campus – students, faculty or staff – with a print disability can now request electronic copies of… Read More

L-R: University Librarian Valerie Hotchkiss is pictured with Library Fellows Emma Dahill, Mason Eiss, Kelly Perry and Tori Phillips along with Osher Lifelong Learning attendee Jo Church. This fall, six library fellows worked with Osher Lifelong Learning (OLLI) students and librarians to curate an exhibition on the history of… Read More

A new Quarterly Report is out! Click here to see what’s been going on in the Libraries. Read More

Kanopy is an online video streaming service with a collection that includes thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases and a number of leading producers, such as the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel and hundreds more.   You can easily share films, create clips or… Read More

A special exhibition from the Eskind Biomedical Library’s Historical Collections is now on display in the Heard Library Special Collections. The exhibit, entitled “Elixirs, Remedies, and Maladies,” opened this past July and features rare books, documents, and artifacts from the last 400 years. Point of purchase display, 1939. Eskind… Read More

A special exhibition from the Eskind Biomedical Library’s Historical Collections is now on display in the Heard Library Point of purchase display, 1939. Eskind Biomedical Library artifact collection. Special Collections. The exhibit, entitled “Elixirs, Remedies, and Maladies,” opened this past July and features rare books, documents, and artifacts from the… Read More

Everyone knows what a book is. But what do gutters, fore-edges, diapers, running heads, and pilcrows have to do with books? In this course, the students learned interesting and amusing stories behind useful, though specialized terms in the history of communication from medieval manuscripts to digital publishing. Along the way, students learned… Read More