The Emory Libraries for Anti-Racism Forum was held on Monday in response to a nation-wide call for change following incidents of police brutality in recent weeks. Organized by the Emory Libraries Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, LEAF, and the Librarians Assembly Council, 145 people attended the forum via Zoom and took part in large […]
As head of the Interlibrary Loan (ILL), Course Reserves, Stacks and Science Commons teams, I am excited about the support these teams have been able to provide to library users during the coronavirus pandemic, despite a myriad of challenges with collection access and almost no onsite staffing. Under normal circumstances, ILL is responsible for borrowing […]
The Electronic & Continuing Resources (ECR) Team has been working diligently during these strange times. Much of the team’s regular work can be done remotely, and its members are tackling several projects. During normal times, the ECR team manages the lifecycle of electronic and physical continuing resources. The ECR team is responsible for acquiring and […]
Solomon Hilliard joins the LTDS team, after spending nearly four years on the LITS Web Management Team. He recently partnered with the libraries on the digital repository development effort during the launch of Emory Digital Collections. He also spent the last year serving on the LITS PATH Committee. Solomon originally came to LITS after a […]
Ashley Stevens arrives in Atlanta to be the new historical collections archivist for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. She previously spent over two years as the archives and research manager at the Edsel & Eleanor Ford House, a historic estate in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan. The estate tells the story of a prominent American […]
Brad Watson is a software engineer who has joined the Library Technology and Digital Strategies (LTDS) team to work on the Digital Library Project. He previously spent a year as a software support engineer at BioIQ and six months as a software engineer at Designzillas. Raised in Cherry Hill, NJ, Brad earned an associate degree […]
A record crowd tuned in to the first-ever virtual IT Briefing this week. The longtime Emory IT project update meeting had 177 attendees, shattering the old mark of 115 set when CIO Rich Mendola addressed the Briefing in 2013. The IT Briefing returned after taking a month hiatus while LITS transitioned into a mobile workforce […]