Heard Libraries Communications

Uncertain times can often result in higher than normal levels of stress and anxiety. The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have created a collection of fun, uplifting, and engaging resources to promote stress-relief and well-being. The guide, which also links to resources from Vanderbilt University, has a little something… Read More

This is a first in a series of articles written by the Science and Engineering library’s student assistants about their life during the COVID-19  quarantine. My name is Nairah (Nay- er-ah) Moustafa , a junior biomedical engineering (BME) major with an engineering management (EngM) minor. I am from Alexandria,… Read More

Pick-up service for resources that are not available electronically will be expanded during the week of June 15 to include items from all Vanderbilt Libraries and offsite storage locations. Online requests are fulfilled with electronic versions of resources whenever possible. We are happy to help you locate items.  Please allow… Read More

Looking for some summer reading?  Owen professors have picked some of their favorite books and recent reads in both non-fiction and fiction. Some recommendations are available through the library as e-book or audio, like Michael Lapre’s recommendation Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive, e-book and audiobook. Read More

This exhibition will be curated by a cohort of Buchanan Library Fellows and their librarian mentors. Students learned about book history and curated an exhibit about reading using Special Collections books. Their exhibit explores sixteenth- to nineteenth-century popular literature from occult philosophy to herbology, and personal essays. Each Fellow explored how… Read More

An exhibition curated by Gawon Lee and Jiayi Hou, 2019-2020 Buchanan Library Fellows   Netsuke depicting two masks: a female Noh face and a demon or guardian face, ca. 18th–19th century, glazed and unglazed porcelain, The Herman D. Doochin Collection, 1992.159Netsuke depicting a hat, ca. 18th–19th century, porcelain with blue,… Read More

Follower of Domenico Ghirlandaio (possibly, Giovanni Battista Bertucci)Lorenzo di Bicci (Italian, ca. 1350–1427)Amico Aspertini (Italian, 1472/75–1552)Andrea di Bartolo (Italian, 1389–1428)Vittore Crivelli (Italian, 1481–1502)Bonifacio di Pitati (Italian, 1487–1553)Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli (Italian, 1458–1496)Goswyn van der Weyden (Netherlandish, 1465–1538)Gerolamo Giovenone (Italian, 1490–1555)Jacopo di Paolo, Italian (active 1380–1426)St. Barbara, Flanders, ca. 1500Pietro… Read More

Vanderbilt University Library is excited to share how our subscription to O’Reilly for Higher Education is being used by Vanderbilt students to learn new skills and software programs virtually. This is the final article in a three-part series of student-authored articles. Nairah Moustafa, an undergraduate student (’22) majoring in… Read More

See what has been happening in the Libraries. The Winter/Spring 2020 Quarterly Report is online. Read More

The Vanderbilt Heard Libraries video Vanderbilt libraries are here for you was one of seven videos that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) featured in a recent blog post. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ARL member libraries are sending video messages of support to their communities, and the Vanderbilt libraries are… Read More