Year: 2019

R is a particularly useful programming language for statistical computing and data visualization. All are welcome to attend this, no experience necessary, introductory workshop series in three sessions: Wednesdays in November (6, 13, 20) 1:00 – 1:50, Team Room 15 in the Walker Management Library. After this series you… Read More

During the Vietnam War, CBS News correspondent Morton Dean and cameraman Greg Cooke flew on a harrowing medevac mission to rescue three wounded infantrymen from an enemy infested rice paddy. Dean long wondered what had become of the medevac crew and the bloodied men who were airlifted to safety… Read More

Join us for the Music Library’s Halloween Open House for Blair Academy students and families on Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 4-6 p.m. We hope you’ll join us for crafts, story time, music bingo, scavenger hunts, a “stick together” art activity, mini-golf, refreshments, “Haunted Stacks,” and entertainment by our talented Blair… Read More

On Oct. 24-27, 2019, Vanderbilt will be hosting a Music Encoding Workshop & Hackathon. This Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) workshop is for newcomers and advanced users alike. All are welcome to participate, and there is no charge to attend. There will be lectures and hands-on encoding practice each day. Registration… Read More

Peabody Library hopes you will join us in celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Library. Our next event, on Thursday, October 17th, from 4:00-6:00 pm, is a catered reception featuring champagne and refreshments. We hope you will join us to toast and celebrate the historic nature of this Carnegie… Read More

A reception for the “Black Studies As (A) Movement: AADS @50” exhibit will occur in Special Collections on Friday, October 11, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. An exhibit marking fifty years of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University will be on display in Vanderbilt University’s Special Collections… Read More

August 9-October 12, 2019, Central Library (Fourth Floor Lobby) Vanderbilt’s History of Medicine Collections is home to thousands of cookbooks, receipt books, and collections of home remedies. This exhibit, featuring rare and not-so-rare selections from our collections, explores the development of cookbooks across the centuries, with emphasis on the… Read More

The Center for Knowledge Management has developed a decision support journal identification and evaluation tool to help authors find potential journals for submission.  The online tool is called SPI-Hub, the Scholarly Publishing Information Hub.  Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center users can search for journals by topic,… Read More

The latest version of the Cochrane Handbook of Systematic Reviews of Interventions is now available. The handbook can be viewed online for free.  Chapters can be downloaded with restrictions for Cochrane Collaboration registrants.  A print version of the handbook can also be purchased. More information available at https://training.cochrane.org/handbook. Read More

Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the contributions of self-identifying women to science, technology, engineering, and math. So to celebrate their achievements, Vanderbilt Libraries and the Wond’ry are gathering at the Wond’ry on Tuesday October 9th to share their work on Wikipedia’s pages. While Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website in… Read More