Year: 2007

The Jean and Alexander Heard Library now delivers VU and ILL materials to faculty on campus. Loans are delivered to department offices; copies are delivered electronically. (Eskind Biomedical Library offers a separate document delivery service for Medical and Nursing School faculty.) Faculty deliveries are now handled along with… Read More

Professor Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, Department of French & Italian Title: Envisager Dieu avec Edmond Jabès par Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller. Paris, Collection Cerf Littérature, 2007. English Abstract from the publisher– “Will my work [… ] be contained in the countless and contradictory definitions of God and my solitude, in the death of that… Read More

It’s easy tobe alerted to new items of interest that appear in your favorite EBSCOhost database (e.g.,ATLA,Religion and Philosophy Collection).  Just set up an RSS feed,… Read More

Through the library’s membership in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, the 2006 General Social Survey (GSS) data are now available to researchers at Vanderbilt. The GSS is a personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. The 2006 study contains cumulative data… Read More

  From the first of April until the end of August 2007, Special Collections and University Archives will feature a Civil War exhibit entitled, “Gone But Not Forgotten: Civil War Materials in Special Collections. This exhibit will feature materials from the Mary Margaret and John L. Farringer, Jr.; Harris… Read More

Special Collections just posted a new World War II Online Exhibit on the exhibits page. The home page for the exhibit is http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/exhibits/ww2/ww2.shtml. Here’s a description of the exhibit from its home page:The online version of our 2006 exhibit on World War… Read More

The New York Times is offering complimentary subscriptions to TimesSelect. You must be a student or faculty member with a valid college or university e-mail address to be eligible for this offer.  To learn how to subscribe, visit http://www.nytimes.com/gst/ts_university_email_verify.html… Read More

Welcome to our first online newsletter designed for faculty, students and university staff who use the resources and services of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library.  The Library News Online is published on a monthly basis and you may subscribe to the newsletter by clicking on the RSS link at the… Read More

Did you know that articles from the journals, stored at the Library Annex, can be faxed to any local fax number?  Although our service is more frequently  used by graduate students, absolutely anyone with fax capability can request this service. Acorn, the online catalog, has an Annex request button for… Read More

Access Sarah gives you one-click access from your browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox – sorry no Safari) to Stevenson Science and Engineering Library resources. To install the toolbar, point your browser to http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/science/toolbar/sarah.html.To customize the toolbar, simply select the “Options” button once Access Sarah has been installed. Changes… Read More