The Wikimedia Foundation has awarded Vanderbilt University a grant to advance WikiCite among information professionals. WikiCite is a “Wikimedia initiative to develop open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve… Keep reading
Technology
Library Summer Project Attracts Grant Funding
New feature broadens Libraries’ Scan and Deliver service
The libraries are pleased to introduce a new button to “request chapter/article scan” found in the bibliographic record for any user logged into their library account. (Please see screen shot… Keep reading
Access online articles more easily with LibKey Nomad
The Vanderbilt University Library provides access to LibKey Nomad, a browser extension that provides instant links from publisher web sites to full-text articles subscribed to by the Library. Nomad is… Keep reading
Contactless checkout@VandyLibraries Expanding for Fall
The well-received contactless materials checkout system checkout@VandyLibraries introduced last year in the Biomedical, Central, Divinity and Peabody libraries is expanding this fall to the Management and Science libraries. Take a… Keep reading
Call for Applicants for Fall Buchanan Library Fellowship: Privacy, Surveillance and Intellectual Freedom
Open to undergraduate students, the Buchanan Library Fellowship Privacy, Surveillance, and Intellectual Freedom is seeking additional applicants. New online research environments have made the discovery and consumption of information easier… Keep reading
Call for Applicants for Fall Buchanan Library Fellowship: Modalities of Text Mining
Open to undergraduate students, the Buchanan Library Fellowship Modalities of Text Mining is seeking additional applicants. How can you identify and explore patterns across millions of documents? In this fellowship,… Keep reading
VMWare Moving to Multi-Factor Authentication
As a measure to increase network security, use of the VMWare Horizon client software, including the Management Library Virtual Machines, will require Multi-Factor Authentication beginning 8:00pm Central Time, Friday, March 27th. This will require… Keep reading
AV Equipment for Online Learning
Through its Gear2Go service, the Libraries also lends out a variety of audio-visual technology that can be used to support online learning. This includes: DSLR cameras, GoPro cameras, 360 cameras, digital recording… Keep reading
What’s Happening in the Libraries: March 2020
IMPORTANT: Please note that given University policy about in-person events during the coronavirus crisis and all face-to-face in-person workshops have been cancelled until further notice. Some of these workshops may… Keep reading
Workshop: Intro to Geospatial Analysis with QGIS
This two-session course will focus on introductory spatial analysis in QGIS, a free and open source GIS platform. If you have always been curious about GIS and how to get… Keep reading