Peabody Library will be offering two training sessions on the citation manager Mendeley the week of November 11. Mendeley is an excellent, free, easy-to-use program for extracting citations from the web, saving and organizing them, and generating bibliographies in various styles in Word documents. It also has a rich suite of online features for finding… Keep reading
Please join the Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries in celebrating the Peabody Library 100th Anniversary with remarks by Tipper Gore, Peabody College alumna, activist, author, photographer, and former second lady of the United States. Remarks will begin around 4:15pm and the event will conclude with a reception in Peabody Library’s Grand Reading Room. Location: Peabody… Keep reading
R is a particularly useful programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. All are welcome to attend this, no experience necessary, introductory workshop series in three sessions: Wednesdays in November (6, 13, 20) 1:00 – 1:50, Team Room 15 in the Walker Management Library. After this series you will learn the basics of R… Keep reading
Peabody Library hopes you will join us in celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Library. Our next event, on Thursday, October 17th, from 4:00-6:00 pm, is a catered reception featuring champagne and refreshments. We hope you will join us to toast and celebrate the historic nature of this Carnegie Library. The event will be held… Keep reading
You’ve just spent the last several hours arranging your disparate ideas into a coherent research paper — and now you have to spend several more hours typing up your citations and bibliography. Does this sound depressingly familiar? Bibliographic management software can make things easier, and staff at the Vanderbilt libraries are available to provide one-on-one… Keep reading
Every October, the academic and research community worldwide celebrates Open Access Week to highlight the efforts and achievements of the Open Access Movement. In past years, Vanderbilt’s Libraries have used Open Access Week to explore such topics as open access publishing, authors’ rights, gender issues, and green and gold open access. Vanderbilt’s OA Week 2019 theme for… Keep reading
Peabody Library hopes you will join us for our first (of several!) events celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Library. Drop in anytime on Thursday, September 26th, from 1:00-2:30 pm to enjoy cake, refreshments, and a trivia contest. The event will be held in the Peabody Library Fireside Reading Room (1st Floor). More information about… Keep reading
The Central, Divinity, Biomedical, and Peabody libraries have launched a new method for letting their users check out library materials on their mobile devices, such as phones or tablets. Self-checkout is also available for those patrons who do not want to use their own devices by providing a self-checkout kiosk to use instead. Self-checkout is… Keep reading
Would you like to sharpen your research skills? Is there a particular citation or other research tool that you’ve always wanted to learn more about? If so, plan to attend one (or more) of central library’s Research Hacks Workshops this fall! Subject librarians are offering free-of-charge hour-long workshops on a range of research hacks to… Keep reading
Peabody Library has 25 lockers available for graduate and professional students. Locker assignments are on a first-come, first-served basis, and can be shared by up to 3 students. Lockers are available for one semester at a time. Each student will need to adhere to the Locker Use Policies and Guidelines, and fill out a locker… Keep reading
