The Library’s Geographic Information Systems service is hosting its second annual GIS Day event this Wednesday, November 18 in the Peabody Library Learning Commons from 12-1:30 pm. Several Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students from various disciplines will speak about how they use GIS. More information, including a printable flier and a schedule of speakers, is available on the Library GIS website. All are welcome and refreshments will be served.

Wondering if you can borrow a calculator from the library, or a digital video camera? Need to use Adobe Acrobat Professional, or SPSS? Browse to the Hardware and Software in the Libraries site, where you’ll find information about computer-related hardware and software as well as things like copiers, printers, GPS units, and other types of equipment. Discover the Library – books and more!

For your consideration, Central Library has a collection of best sellers in its leisure reading section, as well as a collection of travel guides. Want a quick book exchange? Exchange leisure reading books with the Gnome Tome (Peabody Library) or at the Stevenson Science & Engineering Library.

A professional storyteller will tell ghost stories at the Tree of Knowledge on Library Lawn from 11pm-1:00am on Thursday, October 29th. Bring a blanket and enjoy some hot chocolate at this event.

The prototype J. Leon Helguera Collection of Colombiana is completed and now openly accessible

This collection contains digital versions of 66 selected items from the library’s special collection of pamphlets, broadsides and programas acquired by Professor Helguera during his travels to Colombia. The small sample was digitized as a prototype for a grant proposal that has been submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

October is National Information Literacy Month

Q. What are those colorful stairs in front of the library?
A. http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/myvu/news/2009/10/07/art-makes-place-continues-on-vanderbilt-campus.93214

D&B Million Dollar Database provides brief information on 15 million private and public U.S. companies and 8 million international companies.  The directory information includes: address, sales, number of employees. industry classification (SIC and NAICS), type of ownership, and names of chief executives.  You can generate lists of companies meeting specific criteria (geography, sales size, employee size, industry) and download the results.

Search it here

A performance panel discussion will be hosted October 8 at Noon at The Vanderbilt Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, located at 1207 18th Avenue, South, 37212; with the Company actors and Vanderbilt Performance Art students. The event promises to be memorable as the topic of Censorship in the Arts is explored in both historic and contemporary witty terms as Vanderbilt’s Department of Art Performance students incorporate the Vanderbilt Library as a field lab for modern censorship studies. Check Website for more details.

Library Annex service for periodical article requests has been enhanced. We now offer email delivery of articles, within a four-hour window of receipt, Monday – Friday, until 4:30 p.m. The form for requesting articles to be faxed from periodicals housed at the Annex has been revised. The form is now a request for articles to be emailed. This form is linked from the Acorn catalog records of periodical volumes housed at the Annex. Upon submitting a request for a periodical article, patrons are given a choice of the volume being delivered to a service desk or receiving the article as a pdf.