Shore Griffin

We’re open! Come find a book or a place to study or take an online class.  Socially distanced study spaces are available throughout the libraries and in reservable study rooms. Find Central, Divinity, Music, Peabody, and Science & Engineering hours here.  … Read More

Learn how to quickly and conveniently access useful, quality information by attending this McGraw-Hill Webinar: An Overview of AccessEngineering. Mark your calendar for Aug 26, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, Noon CDT. REGISTER HERE This webinar will provide an overview of AccessEngineering and highlight product features, such… 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

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

The Law Library’s Sarah Dunaway will host and interview Mary Robinette Kowal & Jenn Lyons at this year’s Southern Festival of Books. Mary Robinette Kowal was the 2008 recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Hugo winner for her story “For Want of a Nail.”… Read More