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Year: 2016

  • Build Digital Collections with Omeka!

    Build Digital Collections with Omeka!

    Friday, February 19th 11:00-12:00 Central Library, 418a   Want to learn how to build digital exhibits and publish them online? Carla Beals and Ed Warga share the advantages of Omeka, a web content management system, at this week’s scholarly communications workshop.   No RSVP. Learn more… Read More

    Feb 17, 2016

  • Meet Tara Keil

    Meet Tara Keil

    Tara is a senior from Atlanta, Georgia. She is a Medicine, Health, & Society major and a General Music minor. She loves working at the Stevenson library because her coworkers are very pleasant and she gets to help out her fellow students. She has had a wonderful… Read More

    Feb 15, 2016

  • Cleaning Up Your Data with OpenRefine!

    Cleaning Up Your Data with OpenRefine!

    Friday, February 12th 12:00-1:00 Central Library, Room 418a Learn the benefits of OpenRefine- a free, online tool that helps you Explore large data sets Clean and transform your data Link your data with other web services See how these benefits… Read More

    Feb 10, 2016

  • Mr. Seonwoong Hwang

    Mr. Seonwoong Hwang

    I can’t believe it has already been two years since I first started to work at the service desk. It has been my great joy and honor to get to know wonderful staff members of SEL and have chances to help students who are experiencing “lostness” in various… Read More

    Feb 8, 2016

  • Research Productivity: Picking the Perfect Research Topic

    Research Productivity: Picking the Perfect Research Topic

    Wednesday, February 10th 12:00-1:00 Central Library, room 418a Join us in our next Student Research Productivity workshop to learn how organizing your knowledge with concept mapping can help you focus your research topic in a timely matter.   Drop in, no RSVP… Read More

    Feb 7, 2016

  • Freedom Riders in the South, 1961

    Freedom Riders in the South, 1961

      View a collection of documents detailing the activities of the Freedom Riders, an interracial group who rode buses in May 1961 from Washington, DC, bound for New Orleans to protest segregation in… Read More

    Feb 5, 2016

  • Alumni Access to Law Databases

    Alumni Access to Law Databases

    When on campus, alumni may access most of the library’s electronic resources available through Vanderbilt libraries. We are also able to offer remote, off-campus, access to a select group of specially licensed alumni databases . To gain remote access, alumni will need a VUNet ID. If you do… Read More

    Feb 4, 2016

  • Minecraft as an Educational Technology

    Minecraft as an Educational Technology

    Friday, February 5 11:00-12:00 Central Library, 418a   Want to play video games for school? Minecraft is a video game that allows you to build a virtual 3D environment. Cliff Anderson and Lindsey Fox will teach you how to revise the Minecraft environment with… Read More

    Feb 2, 2016

  • Meet Julie Hornsby

    Meet Julie Hornsby

    My name is Julie Whitaker Hornsby and I am from Manhattan, even though my heart belongs in the South 🙂 I’ve been wanting to move to a Southern state for quite a good time and I am very happy that going to college has given me the opportunity to… Read More

    Feb 1, 2016

  • Student Research Productivity Workshops at VU

    Student Research Productivity Workshops at VU

    Vanderbilt Libraries is offering a new workshop series this spring, designed to strengthen students’ research skills and use of online tools to increase productivity and improve coursework. These interactive workshops will be held in 418a Central Library and will be taught by a variety of subject liaison librarians. See the… Read More

    Jan 28, 2016