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As part of a system-wide change, document delivery service requests at Eskind Biomedical Library will now be submitted through Heard Libraries’ new resource sharing request form. This form, which is available via the document delivery service link on EBL’s quick guide, provides one interface for users to request library… Read More

On Friday, July 25, 2025, beginning at 9:00 p.m. EDT, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will perform planned maintenance on its data center infrastructure. This upgrade is part of an ongoing effort to enhance the long-term reliability and stability of NLM-hosted services. The maintenance window is expected to last… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Libraries signed an agreement with HathiTrust in March of 2020 that provided faculty, students, and staff with online access to approximately 17% of the libraries copyrighted print circulating collections. Hathi Trust’s Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) was invaluable for virtual instruction and research while access to campus… Read More

If you need a quiet place to study, bookmark the list of reservable rooms in Central Library. Updated for 2020-2021 social distancing during COVID-19, this page has current details about room capacities, available rooms and a link to the EMS Room Reservation System.  Rooms can be reserved during library… Read More

In keeping with the Metro Public Health Department’s Safer at Home Order — directing all residents of Nashville and Davidson County to stay inside their homes, and immediately limit all movement outside of their homes beyond what is absolutely necessary to take care of essential need–all Vanderbilt Libraries… Read More

The violent fall of the Socialist Republic of Romania captured the world’s attention in December, 1989. As anti-Communist demonstrators ransacked party headquarters, propaganda and paraphernalia of the Ceaușescu regime were literally tossed out into trash heaps in protest. In the spirit of “contemporary archeology”, historian Paul Michelson—with family and friends—scavenged… Read More