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During the time when we are all practicing social distancing, Flipster, our popular magazine database, has expanded online offerings of its complete collection through June 30, 2020. With over 1,400 magazine titles in 27 categories, Flipster has something for almost everyone to enjoy! From food and cooking (Eating Well, Epicure,… Read More

Pets are seen regularly on campus this time of year – from therapy goats to dogs being walked across the lawns on a beautiful spring day. The Peabody Library and the Peabody Office of Student Engagement & Well-Being recently decided to bring a little of that cheer online. The Peabody… Read More

Kelly LaVoice is a member of Owen’s Remote Teaching Task Force (developed in response to COVID-19), which has been planning for and working with faculty to move all courses online. She is in the “classroom,” helping to moderate and troubleshoot MGT 6560 : Marketing Strategy with Professor Goldsmith (section 1). Read More

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Dream for Light Years, a two-year collaboration between Ali Smith, a California-based contemporary artist, and Michael Alec Rose, professor of composition at the Blair School of Music, can now be enjoyed online. The opening for the exhibition at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery has been postponed until an unknown future… Read More

Walker Management Library business librarian Kelly LaVoice presented “Add a Job-Ready Skill by Utilizing the O’Reilly for Higher Education Platform” on April 3rd in collaboration with the Owen Graduate School of Management’s Career Management Center.    The O’Reilly platform contains reference materials on computer programming, technology,… Read More

The staff at the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library continue to support faculty and researchers during the Covid-19 pandemic: Michael Jones worked closely with instructor Carl Smith on a course “The Movement of Line,” MUSO 2200. This course examines in detail interrelated examples from calligraphy, drawing, verse, and… Read More

Available remotely to Vanderbilt Students for a limited time, Bloomberg Market Concepts is a self-paced electronic course that provides learners with an introduction to the core concepts underpinning the information available via Bloomberg Terminals.  Core Concepts includes four modules: Economic Indicators, Currencies, Fixed Income,… Read More

April 21 @ 12 p.m. Link to Meeting: https://cengage.zoom.us/j/134679167?pwd=QWZvelNFRlFPaEhnNk5XeTZTZm8rZz09 In the past year, Gale, a company that partners with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights, has launched a new text mining tool for digital humanities research and teaching—the Digital Scholar Lab. It gives users… Read More

While you may be familiar with Google Scholar as a way to find scholarly literature, you may not know all the tools that can help you link to VU resources, find other possible sources on a topic or research question, and be more precise in your searching. Read More