Jean And Alexander Heard Libraries

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver has appointed a committee to conduct a national search for the next university librarian. Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Vanessa Beasley and School of Medicine Basic Sciences Dean Lawrence Marnett will co-chair the committee. Read More

Staff of the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries participated in the inaugural Staff Celebration Oct. 25 to recognize and honor their commitment to the university community. Read More

A new student exhibit at Central Library explores the connection between disease and isolation while drawing parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic. Junior Lia Okenkova's “Depictions of Leprosy: Isolation for the Ages” features art and literature from the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery and Central Library as well as original poetry. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Inclusive Book Group will meet online Wednesday, Nov. 10, to discuss Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu. Read More

The Vanderbilt community can now access news stories in the Financial Times through the “News Desk” portal on the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries homepage. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will host events to mark Constitution Day on Friday, Sept. 17, including a public reading of the U.S. Constitution, handing out pocket Constitutions and hosting a social media photo booth. All are invited to participate. Read More

Last fall, five Buchanan Fellows at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries began a project to research Vanderbilt University’s first decade, from 1875 to 1885, and curate an online exhibit about what they discovered. In the process, the fellows learned how to find supporting materials, interpret historical objects, examine historically significant documents from Special Collections, and place all of them in the context of the university’s—and the nation’s—history. Read More

At Vanderbilt, resources supporting student needs are everywhere. Knowing where to look and whom to ask can help them navigate the university and set students on the course to success.   Read More

Vanderbilt University Libraries’ Digital Scholarship and Communications Office (DiSC) and the Spatial Analysis Research Lab (SARL) will host five workshops for students, faculty and staff interested in learning more about geospatial science. Read More

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery will reopen on Thursday, Aug. 26, with "Sympathetic Magic," an exhibition presenting objects from Vanderbilt University Collections alongside works by modern and contemporary artists that promote faith, healing and transformation. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Inclusive Book Group will meet online Wednesday, Aug. 4, to discuss "When Breath Becomes Air," a memoir that offers readers an intimate look at the profound moments that shaped a young doctor’s life before and after his cancer diagnosis. The virtual gathering will take place from noon to 1 p.m. CT. Read More

Hilary A. Craiglow, who has led the Walker Management Library for more than a decade, has been named interim university librarian for the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Clanitra Nejdl, head of professional development and research services librarian at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries Alyne Queener Massey Law Library, is the 2021 recipient of two distinguished honors from the American Association of Law Libraries. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Inclusive Book Group will meet online Thursday, July 22, to discuss Black Bottom Saints featuring a moderated discussion with the author, Alice Randall, writer-in-residence in African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt. Read More

Vanderbilt’s partnership with the National Museum of African American Music has moved forward with the university’s acquisition of a rich collection of photos, scrapbooks and more from the life and career of jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries' library catalog will be unavailable for up to 24 hours during the Memorial Day weekend beginning Saturday, May 29, at 8 p.m. CT, due to Ex Libris moving their servers to Seattle, Washington. Read More

The "Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal" is being revived after six years to serve as a valuable platform to publish articles demonstrating the wide array of research being done by Vanderbilt students as part of either their undergraduate progress or as the final, culminating piece of their Immersion Vanderbilt plan. Read More

'Pressed for Time: Five Centuries of Prints from the May Collection,' on view online and from January through the end of March at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, was curated by Professor David Price and students in his History of Prints class. Meeting weekly throughout the summer and fall of 2020, the students often were joined by Jack May, a longtime Nashville businessman and print collector, who inspired a new generation of collectors and connoisseurs of print art. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Inclusive Book Group will meet online Wednesday, May 5, to discuss Madeline Miller’s "Circe." The virtual gathering, hosted by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center in partnership with the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, will take place from noon to 1 p.m. CT. Read More

As Vanderbilt reflects on the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact, we are honoring the dedicated staff, faculty and students who rallied to support our One Vanderbilt mission and ensured that the university adapted amid unprecedented challenges. Read More