As the Library Technology and Digital Strategies Team puts the finishing touches on their rollout of Emory Libraries’ new web site, lead web developer Kristian Serrano delivered a presentation at the InfoForum on how the team is taking new approaches to web development. The following are excerpts from his presentation. Employing the Principles of Atomic Design Atomic […]
Philippe Mongeau (pronounced fuh-LEE-pay MOHN-jhoe) is the new rare book cataloging specialist for African American materials in the Rose Library. Before coming to Emory, he worked as a Toronto Academic Library intern at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Born in the US but raised in Montreal, Canada, Philippe holds a Diplôme d’Études […]
Cari Lovins is the new assistant director of digital product strategy in the Library Technology and Digital Strategies department. Prior to her Emory work, Cari was a project manager in the central IT division at Georgia Tech. In her 14 years at Tech, Cari also served as a service delivery manager, partnering with the library. […]
Katie Sparks is the new electronic and continuing resources (ECR) binding specialist in Emory Libraries. In addition to her Emory work, she is a visitors’ service coordinator at the Center for Puppetry Arts in midtown Atlanta. Before coming to Emory, she was the head of the Laboratory and Research Academy at the American Institute of […]
The Emory Libraries Fall Magazine was published before the holiday break and is now available online at web.library.emory.edu/documents/libraries-magazine/Libraries-Magazine_2018-Fall.pdf. This issue’s theme is “Innovation,” and the magazine explores how the Emory Libraries applied technological and academic innovation in 2018. Among the initiatives covered are creating an oral history archive at Emory, a grant in support of Wikipedia in higher education, […]
During this week’s InfoForum, Emory historian Gary Hauk treated LITS to a fascinating deep dive into the origin of the naming of the Woodruff Library’s central conference space, the Jones Room. His lecture, entitled “Mr. Woodruff and the Three Wise Men,” reintroduced the audience to a group of leaders whose history has been mostly forgotten […]
Thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s Doggie Study Break, in which we brought therapy and service dogs into the Jones Room of the Woodruff Library in order to give our stressed-out students a much-needed respite from their studies. We worked with two groups last week for the Study Break – Pet Partners (therapy […]