Year: 2025

The collected papers of celebrated humorist Roy Blount Jr. are now housed at Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Blount, a 1963 graduate of Vanderbilt, donated the collection in late 2024. Read More

Holling Smith-Borne, director of the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library at Vanderbilt University, has been elected president of the Music Library Association, the premier professional organization for music libraries and librarianship in the United States. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, will discuss his latest book, "American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union," at Vanderbilt on Wednesday, Feb. 25.   Read More

The Music Library will be open the following hours over the Holiday Break: Monday, December 15, 2025-Friday, December 19, 2025: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, December 20, 2025-Thursday, January 1, 2026: CLOSED Friday, January 2, 2026, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Normal hours will resume on Sunday, January 4, 2026. Read More

The Music Library will be offering the following extended hours for Fall Semester 2025 Finals: Friday, December 5, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, December 6, 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Read More

In celebration of GIS Day on Nov. 19, the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ GIS Lab created “Mapping Vanderbilt’s Past, Present, Future,” an interactive story map that documents how the university’s campus has been imagined, built, contested and reshaped across its 150-year history. Read More

Bestselling contemporary romance author Sarah Adams will discuss her latest book, In Your Dreams, on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, at Vanderbilt University. Adams will be in conversation with fellow author Ally Carter beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Commodore Ballroom at the Student Life Center. Read More

Vanderbilt University faculty, postdocs and staff who use REDCap, the secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases, should set up new projects within the university’s dedicated REDCap instance beginning Nov. 18. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Central Library and Divinity Library will be closed beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21, through Sunday, Nov. 30, for scheduled facility maintenance. The libraries’ regular operating hours will resume on Monday, Dec. 1. Read More

The Music Library will have the following hours for the Thanksgiving Break: Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025: CLOSED Monday, Nov. 24-Wednesday, Nov. 26: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 27-Friday, Nov. 28: CLOSED Regular hours will resume on Sunday, Nov. 30. Read More