The Oxford College Library is now exhibiting selections from Emory’s “Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens” exhibit. As a condensed version of the 2014 exhibition held at Emory’s Woodruff Library, Oxford College features manuscripts, photographs, and even Heaney’s authentic writing desk. Also, a distinctive white kite can be seen hanging in Oxford College Library, symbolizing his Read More …
The Oxford College Library will be hosting two authors, Valerie Boyd and Roger Fleming, this spring. While we exhibit the work and legacy of Alice Walker in our exhibit space, we are delighted to have Valerie Boyd present on her work curating and editing Alice Walker’s journals for the 2017 publication of Gathering Blossoms Under Read More …
October is LGBT History month! Come check out the LGBTQ display at the library: current affairs, thought provoking reads, and great movies.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
