By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library Last summer, the National Archives of the United Kingdom tweeted: “We only know that it’s the hottest day on record because of archival records. Let that fact sink in.” While it was meant to be a bit humorous, it stuck with me. We only know that an…
Join our growing team!
By Jennifer Gunter King, Director of Rose Library The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library seeks nominations and applications for our next Curator of African American Collections and Curator for Literature and Poetry Collections positions. If you envision building library collections that advance research and public interests as part of a dynamic research…
“An archivist of some kind that will come to my house after I am gone” – the Lucinda Bunnen Papers
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the fifth post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. Today I accomplished something I had desired to do for a while: I managed to get the entirety of Lucinda’s collection onto one floor. To work on…
‘Untitled’: A Collaborative Dance & Photography-Based Activation
written by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist for Rose Library. This month, visitors to the For Keeps Bookstore and Auburn Avenue Research Library will have the opportunity to watch performances curated by Sierra King and Rose Library’s Anicka Austin. The pair have been working together on a dance and performance-based activation that reflects their archival…
The Great Speckled Bird: Researching Georgia’s Radical Press and the New Left
Amanda Stafford is a PhD student at the University of Leeds in the UK. Her research looks at the interconnected histories of the radical press and the New Left in Georgia between 1968 and 1976. I was awarded a Stuart A. Rose Short Term Fellowship back in 2020 at the height of the Covid lockdown…
“A very personal, life-long pursuit” – the Lucinda Bunnen Papers
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers This is the fourth post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. “Making photographs represents a very personal, life-long pursuit, rather than a chronological record of events or places.” – Lucinda Bunnen After accessioning and minimally processing the first…
A RACE against HIV/AIDS in Black Churches
Daniel Royles is an Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University in Miami. He is the recipient of a Rose Library short-term research fellowship. A short-term fellowship from the Rose Library at Emory University gave me the opportunity to do on-site archival research in the records of SCLC/Women’s Organizational Movement for Equality Now (SCLC/W.O.M.E.N.),…
SEEING IS BELIEVING
Yanyi is a writer and critic, author of Dream of the Divided Field (One World 2022) and The Year of Blue Water (Yale 2019), winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has been featured in or at NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Public Library, Tin House, Granta, and A Public Space. The recipient of fellowships from Asian…
“I was always trying to find strange things” – the Lucinda Bunnen Papers
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the third post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. Well, I quickly filled up my once spacious cubicle. It was decided that I would begin by accessioning the first 18 boxes. This was helpful in terms…
The Layout of a Forest – the Lucinda Bunnen Papers
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers This is the second post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. The Lucinda Bunnen Papers arrived in two accessions, one consisting of 18 boxes and the other over 100. After finishing some introductory readings about accessioning and archives,…
From Randall Mill Rd. to the Rose Library – Assisting with the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the first post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. I found myself at the Rose Library in a bit of an unusual way. I was first introduced to the Lucinda Bunnen Papers through their creator, Lucinda…
Arts & Activism in the Archives – Rose Library & Science Gallery Atlanta
by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library. Rose Library is honored to play a small role in Science Gallery Atlanta’s newest exhibition, “JUSTICE”, where we will offer finding aids to some of our related collections. In their words, “This exhibition season invites researchers, artists, and audiences to contemplate and reimagine some of the…