Digital Lab

Mission

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ Digital Lab advances the creation, development, and sustainability of faculty and student-driven digital projects while identifying opportunities to establish infrastructure, scale engagement, and introduce lifecycle and project management. Positioning the Libraries as an essential partner on across campus, the Lab articulates an understanding of our shared cultural heritage through emerging technologies and research methods, while fostering transdisciplinary teaching and learning through collaborative experimentation, shared learning, and discovery.

The Digital Lab’s service model encompasses the areas of digital project management; project development; and training, education, and consultation for Vanderbilt faculty, students, and university staff across all disciplines. The Lab actively contributes to the libraries’ and university’s strategic initiatives through digital project management, project support, and strategic planning for the Digital Lab, as well as education, communication, and outreach to the campus community.

To put in a request, please fill out our intake form here!

Goals

• Transform our understanding and creation of shared cultural heritage through emerging digital technology and research methods;
• Foster transdisciplinary teaching and learning through collaborative experimentation, shared learning, and discovery;
• Advance critical and creative thinking among students by facilitating high-impact practices including undergraduate research, common intellectual experiences, and experiential learning;
• Bidirectionally connect the Vanderbilt community with the world by both exposing unique collections and forging partnerships with the Nashville community to generate new knowledge about our local cultural heritage.

Office Hours

Feel free to stop by the Digital Lab Mondays-Thursdays between 9:00am-2:30pm for an in-person consultation. Or, reach us by email at digital.lab@vanderbilt.edu.