LGBT History Month at the Library
October is LGBT History month! Come check out the LGBTQ display at the library: current affairs, thought provoking reads, and great movies.
Category: Exhibits
New Collection Available at Oxford Library’s Special Collections
Claude F. Sitton has given his personal library of Civil Rights Movement books to the Oxford College Library. Sitton covered the Civil Rights Movement for the New York Times before becoming their national news director. In 1968, he became editorial director of the Raleigh News and Observer and Raleigh Times and was promoted to editor Read More …
Alice Walker Exhibit now at Oxford Library
The Oxford College Library and Academic Commons is exhibiting selections from “A Keeping of Records: The Life and Art of Alice Walker,” the popular exhibition that ran at the Schatten Gallery in the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the main Emory campus in 2009. The Oxford exhibit will focus on Walker’s college years and her life as a novelist, poet Read More …
An Anthropological View of College Dorm Desktops
Last week, Dr. Alicia DeNicola’s Anthropology 101 classes used the library’s new exhibit spaces for an anthropological study of their desks in their dorms. Each student did a study of the contents on and around their work spaces and created an exhibition to present to their class. They could either do a physical display in the Read More …
Oxford College Library: The New Edition
When: August 24, 2013 – December 21, 2013 Where: Oxford College Library, Fran Elizer Exhibit Gallery This inaugural exhibit in the Fran Elizer Exhibit Gallery is a retrospective on the history of the library at Oxford College, which served as the original Emory campus from 1836 to 1919. As we celebrate the opening of Read More …
The Great Speckled Bird Traveling Exhibit
The Great Speckled Bird was one of several underground newspapers that appeared in the United States in the 1960s. Published in Atlanta from 1968 to 1976, The Bird, as it was commonly known, stood out among the alternative press for the quality of its writing, its cover art and its coverage of a range of topics—national and Read More …