Year: 2011

The Vanderbilt University Library is pleased to announce the adoption of the fifth installment of JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collection. This represents an important advance in support of research and teaching across humanities and social sciences disciplines. This collection adds an additional 3 million pages of content to the… Read More

The library has purchased the ebrary Academic Complete collection of over 70,000 electronic books in all subjects. Records for these books can be found in both library catalogs, Acorn and DiscoverLibrary. One click on the URL will lead to the e-book. Links to Academic Complete and other e-book collections are… Read More

Read VU student and Hustler reporter Angelica Lasala’s Inside Vandy article, A guide to campus libraries, about many of the libraries’ study spaces.      … Read More

Vanderbilt’s 2011 Second Harvest food drive is underway and there is still time to contribute. The library has set up donation boxes in the Divinity, Management, Peabody, and Science libraries. The drive ends Dec. 19th. Second Harvest is looking for canned vegetables and fruits, canned meats,… Read More

The university will be performing a service pack upgrade to OAK on December 21-22, 2011. The system will be unavailable to all users during this period. This upgrade will not affect how courses look, but it should fix a number of bugs that have caused sporadic problems in the system. Read More

Study rooms available The libraries provide a variety of study spaces. In addition to open seating, there are group study rooms and study carrels. For more information, please see: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/heard/studyrooms… Read More

Extended hours for finals (Nov. 27 – Dec. 16)… Read More

Library items can become due during winter break, and all library items are still be subject to recalls! Faculty members will have visions of spring courses dancing in their heads (most probably unrelated to sugar-plums) and might need checked-out library items to prepare. Please plan on returning library items… Read More

John Siegenthaler’s October 21 lecture, “Wikipedia, WikiLeaks and Wiccans: Historical Accuracy Online” aired on C-SPAN Thursday, November 24. The library frequently hosts lectures on topics of interest to the Vanderbilt community in the Community Room located in the Central library. Watch video of the lecture… Read More