Year: 2025

Philip Walker, director of Vanderbilt’s Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Biomedical Library and Learning Center, has been elected chair of the National Library of Medicine’s Board of Regents. Walker will serve a one-year term beginning Aug. 4. Read More

On Friday, July 25, 2025, beginning at 9:00 p.m. EDT, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will perform planned maintenance on its data center infrastructure. This upgrade is part of an ongoing effort to enhance the long-term reliability and stability of NLM-hosted services. The maintenance window is expected to last… Read More

Rachel Salvatori, Information and Resource Services Associate at EBL, is the 2025 recipient of the American Library Association’s Miriam L. Hornback Scholarship.  The award is given to an ALA or library support staff member to help finance the pursuit of a master’s degree in library and information studies. The scholarship… Read More

The influence of Vanderbilt University writers on acclaimed author Flannery O’Connor—and the extensive reach of O’Connor’s work on literature and beyond—are the subjects of a new Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries exhibit. Read More

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