Year: 2026

Former first lady of the United States Jill Biden will discuss her new memoir, "View from the East Wing," on Monday, June 8, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The Wilson Music Library will offer extended opening hours during the finals period: Friday, April 17, 2026: 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, April 18, 2026: 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Read More

Winston the Therapy Dog will be present at the Wilson Music Library on Monday, April 13, 2026, from 1-3 p.m. Come and take a break and hang!… Read More

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has announced a new collaboration with Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries that will provide digital preservation support for the world’s largest open-access repository of natural history materials. Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will host a pair of panel discussions on Monday, April 13, designed to support Vanderbilt graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and early career faculty as they navigate the complexities of the scholarly publishing landscape. Read More

The rise of practical phrenology in the U.S. via the work of one 19th-century family, who not only built a cultural empire around the pseudoscience but made it central to various reform movements, will be the topic of a talk on Tuesday, April 14, at the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have received a pair of grants supporting Tennessee America 250 initiatives from the Tennessee Commission for the United States Semiquincentennial. The funding, made available by the state of Tennessee, is administered by the Tennessee State Museum in support of statewide America 250 activities. Read More

Due to ongoing facility upgrades in the Blair School of Music that have shut down the water to a significant portion of the building, the Music Library will be closed on Thursday, March 12, 2026. We will return to our regular Spring Break hours on Friday, March 13, 2026 (9… Read More

The online component of the Phil Schaap Jazz Collection continues to expand. As of March 5, 2026, there are nearly 5800 recordings available in Vanderbilt’s instance of the media platform Aviary. These include the following: Schaap’s regular radio shows over decades, mostly on Columbia University radio station WKCR, including… Read More

University staff and postdoctoral researchers currently using REDCap through the Vanderbilt University Medical Center instance must migrate their projects to the university instance by Wednesday, April 15, 2026, to avoid loss of project data. Read More