Immersion

March 27, 3:00-4:00 pm Central Library Second Floor Gallery Peabody College traces its roots to the University of Nashville and its predecessors, Cumberland College and Davidson Academy.  It is a rich history that the Buchanan Library Fellows have been exploring… Read More

Thursday, February 28th from 4:10 pm – 6:10 pm Central Library Community Room Please join us this Thursday in the Central Library Community Room for the competition portion of the Wild Bunch Library Design Challenge. Watch as student teams pitch their ideas to improve the Libraries and compete… Read More

In this increasingly open and connected world, does privacy really exist? Does it matter? If so, what are the links between privacy and intellectual freedom? The Libraries is pleased to welcome Alison Macrina to campus on March 14. Ms. Macrina is the founding director of the Library Freedom Project, an… Read More

Melissa Mallon (Director of Peabody Library and Director of Teaching & Learning) and Derek Bruff (Director of the Center for Teaching) recently interviewed Mike Caulfield for the Vanderbilt University sponsored Leading Lines podcast. The interview covered media literacy and misinformation and the importance of developing students’ critical thinking… Read More

Vanderbilt Libraries’ offices of Teaching and Learning and Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications are pleased to welcome Christina Hendricks, University of British Columbia professor of teaching in philosophy and Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC Vancouver to campus for an event exploring students as… Read More

Next week, the Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications Office is hosting a GitHub boot camp. This boot camp will consist of three one-hour sessions that range from beginner- to advanced-level topics.  The first session will teach you how to get started creating and using an online Github repository.  The second… Read More

I am pleased to remind you of the third installment of our Spring workshop series: sharing and preserving your born-digital work, to be held Friday in Central 418a 11:10-12:00.   Continuing on our theme of creating, sharing, and preserving multimodal works, Elisabeth Shook will discuss mechanisms for effectively sharing and preserving… Read More

LIBRARY DESIGN CHALLENGE BOOTCAMP SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 11:00-4:00 P.M. PEABODY LIBRARY GROUND FLOOR The Library Design Challenge is open to all Vanderbilt students interested in learning about design thinking and applying those principles to make the library’s collections, facilities, and/or programs & services more accessible and meaningful for users. … Read More

The second installment of our Spring workshop series: Tools for Creating Multimodal Works, will be held Friday in Central 418a 11:10-12:00. Continuing on our theme of creating, sharing, and preserving multimodal works, Stacy Johnson will offer a brief overview of sources of reusable content, followed by an introduction to the… Read More

January 2019 is a great month for free information. Public Domain Day on January 1st marked the first time in 20 years that films, books, artworks and more created in 1923 came into the Public Domain. Studies have shown that public domain books are less expensive, available in more editions… Read More