Year: 2015

An exhibition has opened this spring commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Mary and Harry Zimmerman Judaica Collection in the Vanderbilt University Divinity Library. The collection, established in 1945, has grown to over 20,000 titles and includes archival material from Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Nahum Glatzer. Read More

Three short educational videos on copyright are now available to the Vanderbilt community. The videos cover copyright basics, knowing your rights and using others’ works.  … Read More

Friday September 25th, 11:00 AM to noon at the Central Library. In this session, we’ll teach you how to analyze networks using the open source graph database Neo4J. We will show you how to set up a sample network, analyze the relations between its parts, and visualize the results using… Read More

Peabody Library has acquired a subscription to the online version of Education Week.  Previously only available in print on campus, Education Week online is now available to all VU users from any location.  Through edweek.org, users can access the latest edition of the periodical, as well as back issues… Read More

Friday September 18th, 11:00 AM to noon at the Central Library. This workshop will explore the basics of GIS (Graphical Information Systems), to create, analyze and display geographic data. No need to RSVP. Hands on. Drop in. Learn More. Read More

Don’t run out of (electronic) juice! Charge your phone at the library’s new charging station located on the first floor of the Walker Management Library adjacent to the computers. The charging station has 8 chargers and works with many OS and Android devices. Read More

It was a sweet start to the school year with the library’s annual Ice Cream Social, held on September 10th at the Central Library. Students enjoyed Ben and Jerry’s ice cream while they met and mingled with librarians. Librarians with special subject expertise connected with new and returning… Read More

Lost? Confused?  Check out our Divinity Library orientation guide.  Questions?  Let us know!… Read More

Friday September 11th, 11:00 AM to noon at the Central Library. GitHub is a social network for computer programmers. In this session, we’ll introduce you to git, the distributed version control system that powers GitHub. By the end of the session, you’ll be ready to create repositories and collaborate with… Read More

Join fellow students and Vanderbilt librarians and staff for an ice cream social Thursday September 10 from 1 to 3pm in the Central Library 4th floor Community Room. Build a Ben & Jerry’s sundae, get your hands on some artifacts from our Special Collections, and take a… Read More