Year: 2026

Celebrated authors and avid readers came together in downtown Nashville Oct. 17–18 for the 2026 Southern Festival of Books presented by Vanderbilt University in collaboration with Humanities Tennessee. Read More

Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff can now access thousands of top-tier global newspapers and magazines for free, thanks to a new Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ subscription that brings the PressReader digital news platform directly to the university community. Read More

The Music Library will be open the following hours for Fall Break: Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, 2026: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular opening hours will resume on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026. Read More

Friends and supporters of the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries gathered Sept. 30 to mark the tenure of Jon Shaw as dean of libraries and letters and to celebrate the legacy of Connie Vinita Dowell, M.L.S.’79, the Vanderbilt Libraries’ first dean. Read More

Winston, the rather awe-inspiring St. Bernard, will be present at the Music Library from 12-2 p.m. on October 5, 2026, along with his handler, Johanna. We are told he will not be signing autographs in ink, but feel free to stop by anyway!… Read More

The complete papers of pioneering Colombian intellectual and cultural activist Manuel Zapata Olivella are now available to the public, and access has been expanded to the papers of his sister, master dancer and folklorist Delia Zapata Olivella, thanks to archival efforts by Vanderbilt’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives. Read More

Many writers and performers with Vanderbilt ties will be featured at the 2026 Southern Festival of Books, which returns to the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Tennessee State Museum, and Tennessee State Library and Archives Oct. 17–18. Read More

The Nashville Comic Arts Festival, a free event celebrating independent comics, graphic novels and zines, will return for a third year to Vanderbilt University’s Central Library on Saturday, Oct. 3. Read More

Vanderbilt Law School now has access to Vincent, vLex’s legal AI platform. Vincent combines generative AI with vLex’s collection of legal materials to support legal research and a range of litigation, transactional, and document-analysis tasks. Vincent’s research tools allow users to ask legal… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Peabody Library will host “STEAMrolling into Discovery,” part of the 10th annual Tennessee STEAM Festival, on Saturday, Oct. 24, from noon to 3 p.m. Read More