In August, Christeene Alcosiba assumed the role of Manager of Operations in Public Programming for the Rose Library (MARBL). For this position, Christeene splits time between managing administrative services and coordinating communications and event management for Rose. As such, she reports to both the Rose Library and Campus and Community Relations. Christeene began her Emory […]
Dorothy (Dorry) Waugh has been promoted to Digital Archivist. Her role is to handle the born-digital materials that the Rose Library receives as a part of their manuscript collections, including floppy discs, CDs, DVDs, and hard drives. Dorry began her time at Emory in August 2012 as a Research Library Fellow working in Digital Archives at […]
As you stand in the sparkling, new Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) space on the 10th floor of the Woodruff Library, many words come to mind. “Oh my stars,” said Joe Cravens, an attorney from Richmond, VA, “This is a researcher’s heaven.” “Most impressive,” said Bruce Cauthen, a researcher and former Emory professor. “It’s a relief,” […]
The Library Software Engineering Team, Libraries & Information Technology Services: Library Systems Team, Scholarly Communications Office, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, and Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library performed a very intricate and significant migration of the data repository that is used for our production applications that include Electronic Theses and Dissertations, OpenEmory, The Keep, […]
Emory MARBL’s LGBT Collections is excited to be one of only three university initiatives selected for the launch of Emory’s crowd funding platform. Led by Randy Gue, MARBL Curator for Modern Political and Historical Collections, and Atlanta AIDS activist Dr. Jesse Peel, who has donated his papers to Emory, the project aims to raise $10,000 […]
[Ed. note: article was written by Maureen McGavin and Wade Moricle.] LITS employees are celebrating their creativity in the symbolic act of transforming an old MARBL catalog card into a new work of art. “It’s in the Cards” is an interactive art project, created by Julie Newton (with the help of many colleagues), that was inspired […]
I am writing to announce Ann Vidor’s retirement from the Emory Libraries, effective June 16th. Ann’s retirement marks the close of 26 years of service to the Emory community. She began her Emory career in 1989 as the Head of the Catalog Department, and has been a leader in cataloging and authorities ever since. In 1996, she added the […]