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“We often tend to think of a library simply as a collection of books.
What we sometimes forget is that a library is a place of interaction,
where the minds of students and faculty collide with other minds
removed in time and place.”
— Chancellor Emeritus Alexander Heard
The Jean and Alexander Heard Library

The Heard Library is one of the important research libraries in the Southeast, with more than 3.0 million volumes in nine libraries. Most materials are shelved in open stacks and are available to students and faculty through Acorn, the library’s online catalog. The Heard Library Web site also provides access to a growing number of full-text journals, as well as indexes and other research resources, and is accessible remotely via the campus network and from workstations in each library.

The divisions of the Heard Library include:

Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library
Central Library (contains resources in the social sciences and humanities)
Divinity Library
Alyne Queener Massey Law Library
Walker Management Library
Anne Potter Wilson Music Library
Peabody Library
Sarah Shannon Stevenson Science and Engineering Library
Special Collections and University Archives


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