Year: 2025

Elizabeth Gilbert, who has mined personal experience and deep observation for three bestselling memoirs, will discuss her latest work, "All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation," in a Sept. 17 talk at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will mark the centennial anniversary of the landmark Scopes trial with a new exhibit at Vanderbilt’s Central Library. Read More

The Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center will be closed Friday, July 4th  in observance of Independence Day. The library will re-open Saturday, July 5th at 12:00 PM. To see our full hours visit: https://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/biomedical/hours/… Read More

Vanderbilt University Libraries hold “The John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie Collection” in Special Collections & University Archives. Dr. Robbie Fry, professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the Blair School of Music, first assigned his Global Jazz students a mapping project using the unique photographs and items in the Middle East scrapbooks… Read More

An after-school program at Nashville’s Ida B. Wells Elementary this spring encouraged students to explore the intersection of cultural heritage, literature and STEM skills through the art of quilting. Read More

Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff who enjoy free online subscriptions to "The New York Times" courtesy of the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries can now access The Athletic and fully access Games alongside other features. Read More

R.F. Kuang, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Babel," "Yellowface" and the Poppy War trilogy, will discuss her new novel, "Katabasis," on Sunday, Aug. 31, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The many contributions of LGBTQ people to the political, social and cultural fabric of Middle Tennessee are explored in a new exhibit at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Read More

The Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center will be closed Monday, May 26th in observance of Memorial Day. The library will re-open Tuesday, May 27th at 7:30 AM. We will also be closed for the upcoming holidays Juneteenth : Thursday June 19th Independence Day: Friday July 4th… Read More

University leaders, faculty, students and invited guests gathered at the McGee Applied Research Center for Narrative Studies on May 5 to celebrate its new home at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ Central Library. Read More