Digital Commons

Join colleagues this Monday, April 17, for an in-person information session, catered lunch and workshop on how the International Image Interoperability Framework expands faculty research capabilities. Facilitated by Loyola University of Maryland Associate Professor of Philosophy, Jeffrey Witt, Ph.D., who will share the potential for IIIF in research, using examples… Read More

Manuscripts and photographs pertaining to the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike from the Reverend James M. Lawson Papers are now available in Jstor to campus scholars. On February 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two sanitation workers for the city of Memphis, were crushed to death in a garbage… Read More

This workshop will offer tips and strategies for using the Vanderbilt Television News Archive in your next research project on American politics. The Archive can be used to develop assignments requiring students to research relevant topics and develop critical thinking skills and using evidence to support arguments, which are useful… Read More

Join your friends at Central Library next Thursday for ice cream and an orientation to the libraries! Meet subject librarians and learn about the many services the libraries have to offer that will help you research smarter and faster. When you visit you can enter a raffle for Beats Studio… Read More

With the recent emergence of very high-resolution three-dimensional models via photogrammetric techniques as a primary method of archaeological documentation, the construction of near perfect simulated environments is within reach. In efforts to “think beyond the tool,” this presentation considers how the scales at which the human body interacts with these… Read More

A notebook environment is an increasingly popular way to develop and share code. This workshop will introduce two of the most popular types of notebooks: Jupyter and Colab. We will briefly discuss the literate programming paradigm, then examine the main features that are common to both platforms. In the process,… Read More

Sponsor: Digital Commons Presenter: Pam Morgan Facilitator: Cazembe Kennedy, Assistant Director, Digital Commons Date and Time: Thursday, August 11, 2:00pm to 3:00pm Location: Zoom While you may be familiar with Google Scholar as a way to use the Google search capabilities to find scholarly literature, you may not… Read More

Sponsor: Digital Commons Presenter: Pam Morgan, Central Library Librarian Facilitator: Cazembe Kennedy, Assistant Director, Digital Commons Date and Time: Tuesday, August 9, 11:00am to 12:00pm Location: Zoom Research takes a lot of time, especially keeping track of sources, finding them again, and learning about new ones. Did you… Read More

Sponsor: Digital Commons Presenters: Kayce Gill, MSIS, Health Sciences Collections Librarian, Eskind Biomedical Library and Rachel Lane Walden, MLIS, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Eskind Biomedical Library Facilitator: Cazembe Kennedy, Assistant Director, Digital Commons Date and Time: Tuesday, August 2, 10:00am to 11:00am Location: Zoom Covidence is a web-based tool that… Read More

Are you aware that the mixing of quantitative and qualitative research analysis methods offers power and flexibility that sometimes is not possible through simply focusing on one or the other?  It is a research methodology that is adaptable to diverse settings, including those that involve teaching and learning in digital… Read More