Libraries

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries offer a variety of study and meeting spaces along with other resources for students. (Vanderbilt University)   Welcome to the fall semester! As you get settled on campus, the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are available to help you in a… Read More

Join us at Science and Engineering Library for extended hours during exams for your studying needs. We will be open extended hours starting Friday, December 9 and will remain open continuously until  closing at 5pm on Saturday, December 17. While you are studying you can enjoy a stress break with… Read More

Faculty, staff, and students – Come to the Peabody Library Open House! September 21st from 1-3 pm See the latest library services & technology for your research and studies! -Meet your librarians to help you through your program or faculty research projects -See what digital visualization can do… Read More

Acclaimed artist and book maker Harry Reese, inventor of the Sandagraph technique, will speak March 19 at 12:30pm in Special Collections.  In his talk Word, Image, Book, Presence: The User is the Content Reese will discuss his works produced with Sandra Liddell Reese for over 40 years at Turkey Press. Read More

This year’s ART+FEMINISM theme is activism.  The goal is to correct Wikipedia’s well-known gender imbalance by adding high-quality work to articles about women artists. Join the work at Vanderbilt Visual Resources Center, Cohen Memorial Hall Room 134 on March 25, 2020 from 11am to 2pm where Rebecca VanDiver (History… Read More

Edit women’s stories into Wikipedia at Vanderbilt Libraries during Women’s History Month.  Celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of Women’s suffrage continue on the Peabody Campus in March. Women of Peabody is an Edit-a-Thon March 18, 2020 from 12 noon to 3pm. Catherine Gavin Loss, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and… Read More

Summer 2018 is proving to be an exciting and busy time for the Vanderbilt Libraries as we move to an entirely revamped digital footprint including a new Integrated Library System (the library catalog search and backend operations), as well as a new library web presence, and improved course reading list… Read More

Vanderbilt Libraries welcome a new acquisition: The first edition of the Amsterdam Haggadah (1695) Amsterdam Haggadah of 1695 A special exhibition at the Central Library titled “Why is this Book different from any other?”  celebrates the recent acquisition of a rare guide to the Passover Seder.  The Amsterdam Haggadah… Read More