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

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

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

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

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

Utilizing Trint, a speech-to-text web application that uses machine learning to transcribe audio and video, a summer project team made amazing progress towards the goal to eliminate the CBS, NBC… Keep reading

The Campus Event Photography summer project team accepted the challenge of migrating 44,369 Photographic Archives digital images and their metadata from an old legacy database built in the 2000s to… Keep reading

Almost everyone has heard of Wikipedia,  a free online encyclopedia created and edited by volunteers, but what about its sister project, Wikidata?  Like Wikipedia, Wikidata is a free and collaboratively… Keep reading

Following in the path of WikiCite: a worldwide, crowdsourced initiative to create a freely-accessible database of academic literature in Wikidata, the VandyCite team contributes bibliographic information about faculty at Vanderbilt… Keep reading

A small but mighty team of five library staff set out to make previously digitized but not publicly accessible items from the library’s general and special collections freely available to… Keep reading