Along with all living, learning and study spaces on campus, Vanderbilt libraries underwent tremendous de-densifying of spaces to be ready for a physically distanced fall semester. Students returning to campus… Keep reading
Between the Lines 2020
Preparing our library spaces for fall semester 2020
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
Transcribing television news
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
Special Collections Photographic Archives soon to have a new home
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
Wikidata Bots: How library staff elevate faculty information and publications for research on the web
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
Southern Festival of Books 2019
The Southern Festival of Books, held in downtown Nashville since 1989, is a great event for the city and a easy way for Vanderbilt libraries to promote reading and spread… Keep reading
Veterans Day 2019 recognized with Morton Dean and medevac veterans
Thanks to contributions from The Wild Bunch, Vanderbilt Television News Archive partnered with a number of Vanderbilt departments to bring retired CBS News Correspondent Morton Dean to campus for a… Keep reading
VandyCite
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
Publications and manuscripts now searchable through JSTOR
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
Library PUP: Pick-up Program provides materials to users as quickly and safely as possible
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries staff designed a pick-up program (PUP) to safely provide materials that were not accessible while the library buildings were closed due to the pandemic…. Keep reading