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Campus libraries are open, Wednesday 2/18. Read More

Due to continued winter weather, the libraries closed at 4:00PM today, Tuesday 2/17. Plans are to re-open at 9:00 AM, Wednesday 2/18. Read More

Due to weather, Vanderbilt academic libraries will close at 4:00 PM today, Monday February 16th. On Tuesday, February 17th, the libraries plan on opening later than usual, at 9:00 AM. We apologize for the inconvenience. Stay safe and warm!… Read More

The Divinity Library has added several new resources including: America’s Historical Newspapers (1690-1789) “Comprising titles from Readex’s Early American Newspapers collection, this resource allows full-text access to newspapers from communities across New England, the Mid-Atlantic, to coastal South Carolina and Georgia.  Publications include news, opinion, prose, advertisements and more.” Check… Read More

“The digital Loeb Classical Library presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of Greek and Latin literature.   Works of epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; and those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan… Read More

Lost? Confused?  Check out our Divinity Library orientation guide – and for those entering MDiv and MTS students, don’t forget to attend your meeting with your personal librarian.  Questions?  Let us know!… Read More

In conjunction with the Jean & Alexander Heard Library Special Collections’ exhibit, “The Fight for Freedom,” the Divinity Library has a display on minister-activists the Rev. Kelly Miller Smith and Rev. James Lawson, both of whom have ties to the Divinity School and whose papers reside in our Special Collections. Read More

Listen to an interview with Lenn Goodman, Professor of Philosophy and Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities, about his soon-to-be-published book Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere. Read More

Room 221 in the Divinity Library will be reserved every Thursday from 9 to 10 o’clock for walk-in reference help and database training sessions. The library has a wealth of resources — books, databases, periodicals, and digital material on multiple platforms. But all of this wealth can be overwhelming.  We… Read More

The Kelly Miller Smith Collection is built around the papers of a former Nashville civil rights leader, pastor, and Assistant Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. Housed and serviced by Vanderbilt Library’s Special Collections, the collection is built on the strengths represented by Kelly Miller Smith and includes materials on Black… Read More