Year: 2015

The J. León Helguera Collection at Vanderbilt University houses over a thousand broadsides from nineteenth and early twentieth-century Colombia. Dean’s Fellow, Emma Banks, has selected 150 of these documents for digitization. In nineteenth-century Colombia, people used broadsides to announce events, proclaim political decrees, spread important news, and report on local… Read More

Friday, November 6th, 11-12 at the Central Library. All of the data provided for us on the Internet comes in different formats such as .pdf, .xls, or .csv. Come explore the different tools used to combine a variety of data into one source for analysis with Morgan Daniels, Postdoctoral Scholar… Read More

We are pleased to welcome nine Japanese scholars in a bilingual conference (English/French) that examines the impact of poetry and the work of the French poet Charles Baudelaire from a Japanese perspective. November 5-6, 2015 W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies Central Library, 8th Floor   For… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Libraries are dedicated to providing students, faculty, and staff with the best resources and services available. We need you to tell us how we’re doing! This important survey will reveal the service areas in which we excel, but also identify those we can improve. Read More

This fall, staff members from the Peabody and Science & Engineering Libraries have been volunteering a bit of their time to promote the importance of early childhood literacy at one of the Vanderbilt Family and Child Centers. Each week, students are introduced to books from Peabody Library’s Youth Collection that… Read More

Are Your Private Conversations Fully Protected? Friday October 30th, 11-12 at the Central Library. When discussing confidential information, it is essential that your conversation is protected. Encryption is the process of concealing messages that only authorized people can understand. Come join Derek Bruff, director of the Center for Teaching and… Read More

Don’t miss this spooktacular event: the Blair Pre-College student Halloween Open House. On Tuesday, Oct. 27, from 4-6 PM in the Wilson Music Library, wear your costume, join in the fun, and learn about the Music Library. Food, games, music and prizes are all a part of this friendly event. Read More

Friday October 23rd, 11-12 at the Central Library. The Semantic Web links, formats, and shares data, enabling machines to go beyond simply identifying key words in data to extracting meaning from data. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the model of the semantic web. Once data has been stored and… Read More

Previously only available for reference, the Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary commentary series is now available for 3-day check out. Ask for it at the Divinity service desk!… Read More

Friday, October 16th and Saturday, the 17th the “Digital Humanities and the History of Slavery”  conference takes place at Central Library. The conference, organized by Jane Landers, Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of History, will feature the library hosted  Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS) and other U.S. Read More