Open Education Week (OE Week) is a key event that brings together educators, students, policymakers, and technologists from across the globe to celebrate the benefits of open education. Taking place March 3–7, 2025, Open Education Week marks a critical moment in the global education landscape—one that emphasizes the importance of making education more inclusive, accessible, Read More …
Emory Libraries has been selected to host the 2025 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Symposium, which will be held Feb. 26–March 1 in the Woodruff Library’s Jones Room. The ARL Annual Leadership Symposium is a professional development program for those in library degree programs, focused on ARL’s strategic priorities, career transitions, and networking in Read More …
In honor of Women’s History Month in March, join us on Friday, March 28 to help edit Wikipedia to make sure women are represented. Less than 20% of English Wikipedia biographies profile women, according to the Women in Red Project. The Women of Wikipedia Edit-a-thon strives to write more articles about notable women of all Read More …
Kevin Young, an award-winning poet, former Emory professor and Rose Library curator, and poetry editor of The New Yorker, returns to Emory University to share his work at two events in March. Young will be the special guest poet at the 25th anniversary 12th Night Revel, the annual fundraiser for the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Read More …
Emory Libraries has launched a campus-wide engagement survey to learn how members of our community perceive and use the libraries’ services, programs, and spaces. Our last survey, distributed in 2022, provided valuable feedback from our most frequent users that helped us to shape our policies, collections, and offerings over the last three years. However, we Read More …
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is the proud home of the C.T. and Octavia Vivian papers. Emory University acquired the collection in 2014 and since that time, it has been a boon for scholars, students, and faculty researching the civil rights movement and its aftermath. A new exhibit, “Hello Darling”: Read More …
This Black History Month, read acclaimed African American authors from the physical and digital collections of the Emory Libraries. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, NAACP Image Awards, Caldecott Medal and more—these authors inspire and celebrate Black excellence. Visit the second floor of the Woodruff Library to find our selection of Read More …
The database PressReader was launched in 1999 as an overnight print-on-demand service to hotels wishing to provide global news to their guests. That year was memorable for other things, too, for example, the airing of the last season of the television show “Early Edition.” In each episode, for an inexplicable reason, the following day’s edition Read More …
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (now known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day). Sixty years earlier, on that day in 1945, Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz concentration camp and began to organize assistance for the survivors whom the Read More …
It’s quite easy to type a few keywords into a library search engine and forget that there is a human (actually, many humans) working behind the scenes and contributing to the results you see. Scrolling through a library catalog, like Emory’s Library Search, everything seems polished and objective. Interestingly, library catalogs have long been a Read More …
**Rescheduled for Wednesday, March 5, from 1-3 p.m. from an earlier date.** Emory Libraries will celebrate Public Domain Day 2025 with a symposium: “The Expanding Public Domain,” on Wednesday, March 5, from 1-3 p.m. in the Woodruff Seminar Room, Rose Library. This symposium will showcase opportunities afforded by the public domain for research and teaching. The Read More …
Colorful works by Indigenous artists await Atlanta audiences and the Emory community when Emory Libraries opens the exhibition “This Land Calls Us Home: Indigenous Relationships with Southeastern Homelands.” The exhibition, which opens Monday, Jan. 27, in the Schatten Gallery on Level 3 of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, will feature the work of 25 contemporary Native Read More …
