Shore Griffin
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Candid Conversations: Supporting a Positive Mood through Food | Friday, March 5, 1:00-1:45 p.m.
Candid Conversations: Supporting a Positive Mood through Food | Friday, March 5, 1:00-1:45 p.m. Featuring: Jamie Pope, Assistant Professor of Practice in Medicine, Health, and Society Can food boost our mood? Evidence supports that mental health can suffer when our eating pattern is irregular or we aren’t consuming sufficient essential… Read MoreFeb 26, 2021
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Student Success Tip: Research Smarter
The Libraries provide many tools for tackling the research process. One tool is LibKey Nomad, a browser extension to access library resources and get you the content you need quickly. This tool provides single-click access to library content from publisher websites, PubMed, Wikipedia, and more. Another tool you should keep… Read MoreFeb 25, 2021
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Demystifying Library Resources and Expenditures: Collecting Distinctive Collections
The acquisition of library resources for scholarship and teaching known as “collection development,” is a complicated process that strikes a balance between access and ownership. Factors, such as price, budget, availability, and licensing, increasingly impact the libraries’ abilities to provide the most relevant and useful set of resources for our… Read MoreFeb 24, 2021
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Critical Thinking about Data Visualization – February 25, 2:15-3:00 p.m.
Data visualization is a valuable professional tool for conveying complex information quickly and clearly. Critically analyzing visual elements of charts, images, and infographics is vital to ensure that data is accurately represented and free from bias. Evaluating visualizations also differs significantly from evaluating text. In this workshop, we will… Read MoreFeb 24, 2021
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Chat with a Librarian!
Live Chat Hours! The Libraries are here to support students with research papers, data access, information problem solving and more. Visit our website and see each library’s “Virtual Service” chat hours. Subject librarian specialists continue to offer 1:1 consultations, and our continuously expanding electronic resources are available 24/7. Read MoreFeb 23, 2021
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Managing Your Research – February 23, 2:15-3:00 p.m.
Streamlining your research and citation process can save you hours of frustration. Learn to enhance your ability to manage your research while ensuring responsible information sharing. This session will review the basics of citation managers and demonstrate how they can make you more efficient and productive… Read MoreFeb 22, 2021
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Fall talk on How to Give an Excellent Virtual Presentation can help you
This informative presentation was offered last fall by the Office of Immersion Resources for undergraduates in preparation for the Undergraduate Research Fair. If you are a student interested in seeing the presentation, the recording is available here in the Immersion Hub. You will need to login with your… Read MoreFeb 19, 2021
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Student Success Tip: Meet Your Personal Librarian
Every student has a personal librarian. If you haven’t had a chance to meet your librarian this academic year, there’s still time! Our librarians are subject specialists dedicated to working with students in every major offered at Vanderbilt. Meet with your librarian via Zoom, phone or email – whatever works… Read MoreFeb 18, 2021
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Map Literacy: Evaluating Geospatial Data for Evidence-Based Discourse – February 18, 2:15-3:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 18, 2:15-3:00 p.m. Register for Event Can you tell if there is bias or an agenda in a map’s data or presentation? This workshop will show you how to critically evaluate geovisualizations, maps, and… Read MoreFeb 17, 2021
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Be a part of Vanderbilt History!
Imagine finding a handwritten journal of your grandfather’s in the Vanderbilt University Archives. Now try to imagine your grandchild finding materials in the archive that you created about your time at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives is documenting and archiving personal experiences of this COVID-19 pandemic… Read MoreFeb 16, 2021