The libraries’ office of Digital Scholarship and Communications (DiSC) held a robust suite of remote workshops and lessons to support new remote needs. Series included workshops in GIS, research productivity and… Keep reading
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DiSC Remote Workshops Designed to Meet Pandemic Needs
Campus Libraries Offer Bespoke Workshops
In the wake of the pandemic, Vanderbilt’s libraries provided additional remote training to address the new needs of our students, faculty and staff. Among the bespoke workshops offered for students:… Keep reading
Blair Talks Tech: Panel Discussion on Using Digital Scores
The Anne Potter Wilson Music Library sponsored a virtual panel on digital scores. Panelists discussed their experiences with using digital scores for performance, teaching, and learning and took questions from… Keep reading
Partners in the Goal of Enhancing Wikipedia
Wikipedian-in-Residence Mary Anne Caton led multiple Wikipedia edit-a-thons this year. Four-Part Wikipedia Series on Editing for Social Justice: Sharing Nashville’s Story Before there were guidebooks, we relied on guides—people in… Keep reading
Online Exhibit: Revised Common Lectionary – Worship and Reflection
The Revised Common Lectionary is a three-year cycle of weekly Bible readings, centered around the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Widely adopted by a number of church bodies as… Keep reading
Easier access to Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery collection through ArtStor
The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery completed a migration of collection data and photographs for 6,883 objects to ArtStor over the summer. The ArtStor platform is a more user-friendly interface… Keep reading
Making searching easier and smarter
Over the summer of 2018 our entire library online catalog including records for each book, magazine, DVD, rare book, piece of sheet music, rare object, archive and so much more… Keep reading
Digital preservation progress
The Digital Preservation Summer Project Team made great progress toward the goal of developing a process for maintaining items for long-term preservation, while also keeping focus on and giving assistance to other summer digital initiatives. They met with… Keep reading
Making our library website accessible for everyone
This important summer project elevated user accessibility for our main library web pages to meet the standard set forth by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from the ADA. According to… Keep reading
Discover scholarly works by Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students
A library team enhanced the discoverability and accessibility of scholarly works this summer, specifically electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) of Vanderbilt graduate students and the eight open access journals hosted… Keep reading