LITS recent headlines and upcoming events

Recent LITS headlines:

• ECDS news: ECDS collaboration with Georgia Tech to support accessible crowd-sourced digital archive receives grant from NEH
• Emory Report news: Energy Innovators: Emory students spend the summer in a castle competing for $1 million to develop their device to help cope with climate change.

Upcoming LITS events:

(go HERE for more information for each event)

• August 31 – Decatur Book Festival: “Take You Wherever You Go” (Keynote – Kenny Leon), 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
• September 1 & 2 – Decatur Book Festival: Emory Booth in Downtown Decatur
• September 11 – Atlanta Fulton County Public Library Card Drive: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Level 2, Woodruff Library
• September 12 – Event: Celebrating Randall Burkett, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., Jones Room, Woodruff Library
• September 13 – InfoForum: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Jones Room, Woodruff Library
• September 13 – Event: Building Emory’s African American Collections, TBD, Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library
• September 26 – Symposium: Wikipedia for Higher Education, 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Jones Room, Woodruff Library
• September 26 – Event: Conversation with Kosmo Vinyl (former Clash manager), TBD, Rose Library
• September 27 – Event: Tayari Jones and Pearl Cleage, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., Jones Room, Woodruff Library