The Buchanan Library Fellows program supports hands-on student learning opportunities that build desirable skills and deepen students’ understanding of resources and services in the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. With a focus on undergraduate instruction, the program connects faculty and professional librarians with students to work on experiential library projects and present their work at the end of their fellowship.
Grammy Award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons will perform at Vanderbilt University on Saturday, Sept. 14, in a concert presented by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Wild Bunch Lecture Fund.
In 1935, the Vanderbilt medical library acquired a unique, 840-item collection of books, pamphlets and newspaper clippings on hypnotism from the personal library of the prominent German psychiatrist Dr. Albert Moll. Offered sight unseen by a German bookseller, the multilingual collection offered a unique perspective on the history of hypnosis as well as related subjects.
A new partnership between the government of Québec and Vanderbilt University will bolster opportunities for academic and cultural exchange involving the Canadian province and the Nashville institution. The collaboration was announced June 18 at an event celebrating Québec’s deep ties to Middle Tennessee that also served as an early observance of Québec’s annual national day.
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives has fully digitized the Rev. James Lawson Papers and made these materials available to the general public, giving students, scholars and historians a more complete picture of the distinguished activist’s life and legacy.
A new article in “EdTech Magazine” and a case study by the Center for Digital Education highlight how the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries continue to innovate in the area of digital preservation.
The complete archive of Vanderbilt University’s flagship publication has been fully digitized and is now available online, making more than a century of university history accessible to the Vanderbilt community and others around the globe.
Gilded treasures belonging to university founder Cornelius Vanderbilt, a shipping and railroad magnate and one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century, are among the items featured in All That Glitters: Silver and Gold at Vanderbilt, currently on display at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives.
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in 2023 with the acquisition of eight prints by celebrated hip-hop illustrator and documentarian André LeRoy Davis…. Keep reading
“Dante Behind Bars: Not Made to Live Like Brutes.” The Annual Dante Lecture the Vanderbilt editions the Divine Comedy Created in the Fall of 2022, the Annual Dante Lecture at… Keep reading
