{"id":119,"date":"2016-02-29T22:32:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:03:47","slug":"libraries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/student-services\/libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jean and Alexander Heard Library System: <\/strong>419 21st Avenue South. 615-322-2800.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">library.vanderbilt.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Jean and Alexander Heard Library System is comprised of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/about\/guidetolibraries\/\">eight libraries<\/a> as well as 91³Ô¹ÏÍø&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/specialcollections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Collections and University Archives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"319\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alyne Queener Massey Law Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Potter Wilson Music Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/biomedical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eskind Biomedical Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/central\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Library<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"319\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/divinity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Divinity Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/peabody\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peabody Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Shannon Stevenson Science &amp; Engineering Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walker Management Library<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Among the top research libraries in the nation, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø&#8217;s libraries are home to more than eight million items, including print publications, microfilm items, and digital collections, and provide electronic access to tens of thousands of full-text journals and more than 800,000 e-books and other research resources.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest manuscript in the collection dates from c. 1300 and new publications are being added every day. Among the libraries&#8217; expansive offerings are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.vanderbilt.edu\/bandy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies<\/a>, a comprehensive collection of materials on Charles Baudelaire and French literature and culture; the Southern Literature and Culture Collection; Latin American collections for Brazil, Colombia, the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Argentina; the <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnews.vanderbilt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Television News Archive<\/a>, the most extensive and complete archive of television news covering 1968 to present; the <a href=\"http:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Revised Common Lectionary<\/a>, one of the first published Web-based resources of scriptural readings for the liturgical year; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalmusicarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Music Archive<\/a>, a multimedia reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean and Alexander Heard Library System: 419 21st Avenue South. 615-322-2800. library.vanderbilt.edu The Jean and Alexander Heard Library System is comprised of eight libraries as well as 91³Ô¹ÏÍø&#8217;s Special Collections and University Archives: Alyne Queener Massey Law Library Anne Potter Wilson Music Library Eskind Biomedical Library Central Library Divinity Library Peabody Library Sarah Shannon Stevenson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/2243"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/enrollmentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}