By Randy Gue, Kayla Annan, Jonathan Coulis, and Jennifer Gunter King. The new school year has arrived, and the Rose Library has a variety of new collections available for use, research, and teaching. These exciting acquisitions span our collecting strengths—African American history and culture, Emory Oral History Program, Emory University Archives, literary and poetry collections, Read More …
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the sixth and final post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. One of the main things that I have learned while working in archiving is: “It Depends”. I am usually scanning other finding aids on Emory’s Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 Read More …
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, Read More …
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 Read More …
“The Rose Library is thrilled to add the Scott papers to our holdings that document spaceflight and the American experience during the Cold War,” says Jennifer Gunter King, the Director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. “These unique primary source materials are a perfect companion to the Apollo 15 Learning Read More …
Abbey Hafer is a PhD Candidate in the Art History department at Emory University specializing in early modern Italian art and architecture. She is a Graduate Processing Assistant for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Rose Library. This newly available subseries of the Geoffrey Holder papers consists of hundreds of scripts and Read More …
Accessioning Archvisit Meaghan O’Riordian talks about accessioning and the Kathleen Cleaver Papers. Here at the Rose Library, we are committed to providing access to new collections we acquire as soon as possible. In archives jargon, this is known as “accessioning as processing.” Accessioning is: …a rich hybrid of pre- and post-custodial work that requires physical, intellectual, and emotional labor. Read More …
Writers, actors and artists like James Baldwin, Eartha Kitt and Ada “Bricktop” Smith found inspiration, escape and illustrious careers in Paris. It was in a Paris nightclub that composer and piano virtuoso Mary Lou Williams stood up from her piano and retired from music for three years, in search of a more spiritual path (Wilson, Read More …
The Rose Library is proud to announce that the papers of Atlanta civic leader, Boisfeuillet Jones, are open and available for use. From 1935 until his death in 2001, Boisfeuillet Jones influenced health, education, and welfare policy, and charitable actions on the national, state, and local levels. The Atlanta area especially bears Jones’ mark: the Read More …
