Heard Libraries to explore the art of cartography Nov. 18–21

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will celebrate 2024 Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day with a series of events Nov. 18–21—including hands-on workshops, exhibits and discussions of rare maps, and a campus scavenger hunt—highlighting the significance and artistry of historical maps and map making.

West Indische Paskaert by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, c.1630-1674. Donated from The Collection of Stephen and Carina Bruce.

New GIS Lab at Heard Libraries provides major computing boost to geospatial visualization and analysis at Vanderbilt

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have opened a new Geographic Information Systems Lab in Peabody Library that gives Vanderbilt University scholars a significant computing edge in the rapidly growing… Keep reading