Monthly Archives: August 2020

Anicka Austin, Visiting Archivist, Collection Services, Rose Library

Anicka Austin (pronounced uh-NEE-kah) is a new visiting archivist for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers in Collection Services in the Rose Library. Before coming to Emory, she worked part-time as a graduate research assistant in Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has also worked as […]

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Tierra Thomas, Visiting Archivist, Collection Services, Rose Library

Tierra Thomas is the new visiting archivist for the Southern Jewish Collection in the Rose Library. Prior to this position, Tierra spent two years as a graduate research assistant at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She also spent two years as a student assistant at […]

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LITS recent headlines and upcoming events

Recent LITS headlines: ECDS news: Carlos Museum’s “Ornament in Flux” online exhibition aided by ECDS, by Amy Li Emory Libraries news: Libraries reopening for fall with new access options for Emory patrons Emory Libraries news: Fall 2020 Undergraduate Services Upcoming LITS events: (go HERE for more information for each event) September 4 – WHSCL Seminar […]

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Ghosn Lab becomes an industry leader through AWS technology

“We are using AWS for so many things.” When Dr. Eliver Ghosn (Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Lowance Center for Human Immunology, SOM) moved to Emory from Stanford University about three years ago, he knew he would need partners in IT who could help his new lab with enormous computational needs. His solution was […]

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Last day to submit your impressions of the LITS Online News

Today is the last day to help guide the future direction of YOUR divisional newsletter. The response to the LITS Online News survey has been strong, with over 60 of your colleagues weighing in so far. Our goal is to make the LITS Online News a true peer-to-peer communication vehicle that everyone in LITS feels […]

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LITS recent headlines and upcoming events

Recent LITS headlines: ECDS news: ECDS helps Slave Voyages Project migrate to AWS cloud, by Amy Li ECDS news: Reflection, Sarah Warren: Plato 2.0 – Humanities dialogues in the digital classroom, by Sarah Warren ECDS news: ECDS resources feature: OpenTour Builder, by Amy Li Emory Libraries news: Illuminating Medieval and Renaissance materials at Rose Library, […]

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LITS Online News survey: We need your input

Campus and Community Relations (CCR) would like to invite you to complete an online survey about the LITS Online News, your weekly internal newsletter. We have not conducted a survey since 2018, and this year’s is particularly important because we are in the process of updating the overall format of the newsletter to more modern […]

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