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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 Read More …

“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 Read More …

‘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 Read More …

“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 Read More …

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.), Read More …