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In honor of Read Across America our Central Library student workers produced a reading of Wherever You Go written by Pat Zietlow Miller and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler. Watch the full reading (this video has limited access to the VU Community and requires a VUnetID and password to… Read More

The National Organization for Women was founded in 1966 in response to the failure of the Equal employment Opportunity Commission to enforce a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and to presidential studies on the lack of equal rights women faced on a daily basis. Local chapters of… Read More

It’s no secret that the Libraries provide access to A LOT of research sources, but how do you know the right ones to use or the best way to use them? Consider attending one of our Research Productivity Workshops every Tuesday in March at 2:10 p.m. Led by librarians,… Read More

Are the statistics and graphics in a news story fact-based and free from ideology and bias? Media sources use statistics and visualizations to support claims, but these elements can be abused to mislead the… Read More

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is excited to share news of the Kress Collection Digital Archive, a comprehensive archive and database for the nearly 3,500 works of European art that Samuel H. Kress collected, and subsequently gifted to almost 100 institutions. The Kress Foundation donated twelve Renaissance… Read More

To get started enjoying a new ebook visit https://vanderbilt.overdrive.com or download Libby. For more information on OverDrive or installing and using Libby, please see our Overdrive Guide. … Read More

Keeping track of sources for a research project can be challenging. Citing your sources in the appropriate style required for your project can be confusing. This workshop will introduce you to the free research productivity tool Zotero that can help you collect, organize, and cite your research. … Read More

Demystifying Library Resources and Expenditures: Collecting Distinctive Collections  |  Tuesday, March 2, Noon – 1:00 p.m.  OR  Friday, March 5, Noon – 1:00 p.m. Join us for this lunchtime talk to learn more about how distinctive collections are acquired, the costs associated with… Read More

Candid Conversations: Supporting a Positive Mood through Food  |  Friday, March 5, 1:00-1:45 p.m. Featuring: Jamie Pope, Assistant Professor of Practice in Medicine, Health, and Society Can food boost our mood? Evidence supports that mental health can suffer when our eating pattern is irregular or we aren’t consuming sufficient essential… Read More

The Libraries provide many tools for tackling the research process. One tool is LibKey Nomad, a browser extension to access library resources and get you the content you need quickly. This tool provides single-click access to library content from publisher websites, PubMed, Wikipedia, and more. Another tool you should keep… Read More