Year: 2026

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

The Heard Libraries, in collaboration with key university partners, are making 2026–27 the Year to Unplug—a sustained, institution-wide effort to cultivate a campus culture of reading, reflection and community. Read More

We’re excited to share that DepoSim is now available at the law school. Vanderbilt is the first law school to offer AltaClaro’s AI-powered deposition simulation to students, through a partnership announced in September 2026 that pairs platform access with integration into VAILL… Read More

Jeff Kinney, author and illustrator of the juggernaut middle-grades "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" book series, will appear at Vanderbilt University on Saturday, Oct. 24, to celebrate the release of the 21st book in the series, "Fight or Flight." Read More

Grammy and Emmy award-winning entertainer Harry Connick Jr. will discuss his debut book, "Babe: Elaboratio–A Tribute to My Mother," on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

A new pilot program between Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and Cambridge University Press will expand Vanderbilt’s Evidence-Based Acquisitions (EBA) ebook agreement with Cambridge to include book publishing opportunities for Vanderbilt authors. Read More

We’re excited to share that Legora is now available at the law school. Vanderbilt is one of nine founding members of Legora’s Legal AI Scholars Program, announced in March 2026, which brings professional-grade legal AI into law school teaching and pairs platform access with training support for faculty and… Read More

New exhibits in Central Library and in Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music celebrate the musical legacy of jazz pianist, composer and arranger Mike Longo, and the award-winning Blair Big Band will open its 2026–27 season with “Archive Grooves: The Music of Mike Longo” on Sept. 28. Read More