Vanderbilt University is expanding its distinguished partnership with Fulbright Canada through a new, five-year memorandum of understanding.
Kara Furlong
Vanderbilt University, Fulbright Canada establish new visiting research chair at the Heard Libraries
Black artists’ enduring impact on country music celebrated at Heard Libraries event featuring author Alice Randall
Bestselling author Alice Randall discussed the historic significance of Black musicians and their many contributions to country music during a talk at Central Library on Nov. 20, part of the unique slate of programming hosted by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries this semester.
Collective success: Alex Carroll promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration
Alex Carroll, associate director of the Sarah Shannon Stevenson Science and Engineering Library, champions thinking across disciplines to meet faculty and students’ research needs.
Heard Libraries to explore the art of cartography Nov. 18–21
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will celebrate 2024 Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day with a series of events Nov. 18–21—including hands-on workshops, exhibits and discussions of rare maps, and a campus scavenger hunt—highlighting the significance and artistry of historical maps and map making.
Tennessee, national political history celebrated in new Heard Libraries collection
Some seven decades of Tennessee and U.S. political history are commemorated in the Pitts Family Political Papers, a collection recently acquired by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries.
Heard Libraries’ LGBTQ+ collections give voice to a community by preserving its past
Curator of Community Histories Sarah Calise is telling the stories of underrepresented groups in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, starting by steadily expanding the Heard Libraries’ LGBTQ+ collections.
Innovation defined: HD McKay is re-envisioning the role of libraries
HD McKay’s journey to Vanderbilt has taken a winding and distinctly transdisciplinary path. She considers her arrival at the university a return to her “first love”—academic librarianship—armed with a new curiosity about how best to apply the breadth of her skills as the Walker Management Library’s librarian for business and a lecturer at the Owen Graduate School of Management.
Heard Libraries host 2024 Southeastern Resource Sharing Conference
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries hosted more than 100 library professionals from 21 U.S. states and Canada at the 2024 Southeastern Resource Sharing Conference held Oct. 3–4 on the Vanderbilt University campus.
International P.G. Wodehouse society dedicates collection at Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries hosted members of The Wodehouse Society on Sept. 27 as part of the organization’s biennial convention held in Nashville. The gathering at Vanderbilt’s Central Library drew members from 23 U.S. states and seven countries.
Heard Libraries exhibit celebrates the works of P.G. Wodehouse
A new exhibit at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries celebrates the rich world and colorful characters created by popular 20th-century British writer P.G. Wodehouse.
