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3.30.2021 UPDATE: This event has been CANCELLED. We hope you will join us in 2022, when we hope to be together again in person. Join Alice Randall, writer-in-residence, African American and Diaspora Studies, and the Vanderbilt Libraries in a reimagined, diet-conscious, intellectual celebration of food! Until we can… Read More

Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon: Women of Digital Humanities  |  Wednesday, March 17, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Wikipedia suffers from a well-documented gender bias, but we’re working to correct that imbalance. Prominent women scholars working in the digital humanities like Melissa Terras, Laura Mandel, Johanna Drucker and Roopika Risameither lack articles or… Read More

Don’t forget that the Libraries are also here for you when you need a break! In addition to our lovely library buildings with quiet corners to cozy up in, check out our “for fun” collection, which includes fiction and travel books, audio books, and digital magazines. Read More

How can you defend yourself against manipulation by fabricated media?  ‘Deepfakes’ are synthetic images, videos, and audio that can undermine our ability to detect deception. Discover the machine learning… Read More

Python Series These lessons allow learners to develop programming skills as part of a group of learners working through the curriculum together, or on their own and at their own pace. They are designed to get you started using Python in Jupyter notebooks and teach the basics of the Python… Read More

Complex technical information and research data can confuse an audience if not presented clearly. Learn how to use the narrative structures of storytelling to communicate your research in a way that will resonate with your audience. Register for the Workshop  … Read More

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