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Explore a collection of alternative press journals, magazines, and newspapers covering feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, gays, lesbians, etc.  (Off-campus access requires logging in.)… Read More

All Vanderbilt libraries plan to open as scheduled today. Stay safe and warm!… Read More

Take this 5 to 8 minutes, confidential survey to let us know how we are doing! Your participation in past surveys have created improvements like: Food for Thought Café in the Central Library Additional Group Study Rooms Implementation of a faculty delivery service Help us continue to improve… Read More

A new Tech Hub will open at the Central Library Sunday, Oct. 4th. Vanderbilt community members will be able to receive walk-up tech support during their operating hours: 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. Learn More. Read More

Beginning at 10:00pm on May 31st all links to the Acorn library catalog will be re-directed to DiscoverLibrary, the library’s information discovery tool.   This is necessary while the system is migrated to a new server and  the software is upgraded. DiscoverLibrary allows users to search across a wider-breath of… Read More

Friday, March 27th 11:00 AM, Central Library It is said that every person is only six degrees of separation from any other person in the world. This idea birthed the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game in which players try to connect an actor to Kevin… Read More

Friday, March 20th 11:00 AM, Central Library Spring is traditionally a time for cleaning—a closet, a house, or a room. Few people think about cleaning and preserving their datasets. These types of data management make it easier to use and share data in the long run. Some funding agencies even… Read More

Friday, March 13th 11:00 AM, Central Library Data and analytics are essential to success in any field. As Carly Fiorina, HP’s former CEO, stated, “The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” The process of turning data into insight begins with analysis, and analysis is made… Read More

Want a better way to manage your citations for papers — besides typing them all in yourself? Sign up for a workshop on EndNote Web (aka EndNote Basic; learn more) or Zotero (learn more). All sessions will be held in Room 418A of the Central Library. Zotero: Friday, March 13, 2 – 3:30… Read More

Friday, February 27th 11:00 AM, Central Library These days, languages are more than words that shape human interaction. Languages also shape technological communication. There is no shortage of document formats, and each format is written in its own “language.” For most people, it’s impractical–or impossible!–to learn all of the computer… Read More