GIS

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries will celebrate 2024 Geography Awareness Week and GIS Day with a series of events Nov. 18–21—including hands-on workshops, exhibits and discussions of rare maps, and a campus scavenger hunt—highlighting the significance and artistry of historical maps and map making. Read More

As the Heard Libraries’ director of research strategies, Stacy Curry-Johnson helps faculty, students and staff make sense of spatial data through geospatial science, methods and technology. Read More

Credit: Shutterstock.com The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have opened a new Geographic Information Systems Lab in Peabody Library that gives Vanderbilt University scholars a significant computing edge in the rapidly growing field of geospatial visualization and analysis. Designed to uncover relationships, trends and… Read More

The 2022 Free and Open Source Software for GIS users meeting held in Nashville, Tennessee Nov. 31–Dec. 2, is being hosted at Vanderbilt University at the Digital Commons. Co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Libraries Office of Digital Scholarship and Communications and the Vanderbilt Institute of Spatial Research, it’s an opportunity for FOSS… Read More

Join us on GIS Day 2022, Wednesday, November 16 1–2 p.m., Central Library, Room 418A – Getting Started with ArcGIS Online StoryMaps – Learn to make a StoryMap, see examples, and get resources. 2–3 p.m., Library Lawn* – Geophysics on the Lawn – Ground Penetrating Radar Demo *If inclement weather,… Read More

The program of events is open to everyone! Join via Zoom GIS Day is an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems (GIS) that was initiated by spatial analytics world-leader Esri, and first took place in 1999. Schedule: 9:00 am… Read More