Technology

The interface and searching features of 36 ProQuest, CSA and Chadwyck Healey databases have changed. For a list of databases now searchable on a uniform and new ProQuest platform, see http://bit.ly/9m8cen. Questions about your old My Research, My Archives, or RSS feeds? Ask Us… Read More

Many online services will be unavailable from 10:00pm Friday September 17th through 7:00am Saturday September 18th. Campus Plant Operations has scheduled a complete power outage for the Central and Divinity Library building in order to clean the electrical transformer and install a new electric panel in the building. As a… Read More

The Library, together with Boopsie, a company specializing in mobile device application development, has created a new Vanderbilt Library mobile application. This service is now available for most mobile devices including the iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile, and others. Current features include the ability to search Acorn, view your Acorn… Read More

On June 15th a revised and enhanced version of the Revised Common Lectionary went into production, after several months of beta version review and comment by many of its regular users.  The culmination of a 9 month development effort, the new design and enhanced features of the web-site can… Read More

All Vanderbilt libraries offer computing resources for public use. Approximately 200 computers are located throughout the libraries and are equipped with a variety of useful software applications and hardware. Most provide access to e-mail, the Internet, electronic library resources such as ejournals and ebooks, and to Acorn, the online library… Read More

Access the libraries vast online resources remotely by logging in with your VUnetID and e-password. For more information and troubleshooting tips see: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/public/accesstips.shtml… Read More

The Central, Divinity, Music, Peabody, and Science & Engineering libraries have Dell laptops available for checkout. Peabody Library also has Mac iBooks. More information is available at: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/heard/circlaptops.shtml… Read More

Vanderbilt will be getting access to all Duke University Press publications in electronic format as we participate in a pilot program.  By subscribing to the front-list (2008 publications), we will also have access to all of the previously published titles, accessed via the Ebrary e-book reader platform. Several features of… Read More

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

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