Events

Author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength and of Bechdel test fame will be discussing her career and artistic process with the wider Vanderbilt and Nashville community. This event is free and open to the public. There will be a… Read More

Are you a Blair undergraduate? Do you like tacos? If so, register to join us for our final Lunch at the LiBlairy on Wednesday, Nov. 2 from 12-1 p.m. Enjoy a free lunch and casual conversation with Professor Peter Kolkay. Registration is limited to the first ten students who sign… Read More

The Blair Academy Halloween Open House is back in-person at the Wilson Music Library on Oct. 27 from 4-6 p.m.! Put on your costume and join us for refreshments and a ton of fun activities, including miniature golf, temporary tattoos, scavenger hunts, crafts, and the Haunted Stacks. There will be… Read More

This workshop will offer tips and strategies for using the Vanderbilt Television News Archive in your next research project on American politics. The Archive can be used to develop assignments requiring students to research relevant topics and develop critical thinking skills and using evidence to support arguments, which are useful… Read More

With the recent emergence of very high-resolution three-dimensional models via photogrammetric techniques as a primary method of archaeological documentation, the construction of near perfect simulated environments is within reach. In efforts to “think beyond the tool,” this presentation considers how the scales at which the human body interacts with these… Read More

A notebook environment is an increasingly popular way to develop and share code. This workshop will introduce two of the most popular types of notebooks: Jupyter and Colab. We will briefly discuss the literate programming paradigm, then examine the main features that are common to both platforms. In the process,… Read More

Blair faculty, students, and staff are invited to an Open House and continental breakfast on the first day of classes, Aug. 24, from 8 a.m. to noon. Come meet our new students and visit with faculty and returning students. Read More

Sponsor: Digital Commons Presenter: Pam Morgan Facilitator: Cazembe Kennedy, Assistant Director, Digital Commons Date and Time: Thursday, August 11, 2:00pm to 3:00pm Location: Zoom While you may be familiar with Google Scholar as a way to use the Google search capabilities to find scholarly literature, you may not… Read More

Sponsor: Digital Commons Presenter: Pam Morgan, Central Library Librarian Facilitator: Cazembe Kennedy, Assistant Director, Digital Commons Date and Time: Tuesday, August 9, 11:00am to 12:00pm Location: Zoom Research takes a lot of time, especially keeping track of sources, finding them again, and learning about new ones. Did you… Read More

Sponsor: Digital Commons Presenters: Kayce Gill, MSIS, Health Sciences Collections Librarian, Eskind Biomedical Library and Rachel Lane Walden, MLIS, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Eskind Biomedical Library Facilitator: Cazembe Kennedy, Assistant Director, Digital Commons Date and Time: Tuesday, August 2, 10:00am to 11:00am Location: Zoom Covidence is a web-based tool that… Read More