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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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

A new resource at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries is expanding avenues for digital storytelling, collaborative scholarship and experiential learning on campus. Read More

Grammy Award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons performed at the Blair School of Music’s Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall Sept. 14 as part of a two-day visit to the Vanderbilt campus. Read More

As the Heard Libraries’ director of research strategies, Stacy Curry-Johnson helps faculty, students and staff make sense of spatial data through geospatial science, methods and technology. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries announce the 2024–25 McCord Graduate Library Fellowship, an opportunity to work under the mentorship of Vanderbilt professional librarians or archivists. Read More

Vanderbilt’s History of Medicine Collections is observing the university’s Sesquicentennial with the continuing exhibit, "United in Purpose: 150 Years of Medicine and Nursing at Vanderbilt." Read More