Dear undergraduate students, did you work on a stellar research paper or digital project during the past academic year? If your answer is yes, please consider submitting it for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Award. The Emory Libraries are again sponsoring an award for undergraduate research. A panel of faculty and librarians from Emory’s Atlanta and…
Staff Highlights: A Rising Star Among Us
From the Desk of the Director: I am pleased to announce that Kimberly R. Powell was selected as a participant in the 2023-2024 cohort of the Medical Library Association’s Rising Star program. Kim is the Research Impact Informationist for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. The MLA Rising Star program gives members the opportunity to…
Women’s History Month: The five women who have led the health sciences library
In recognition of March as National Women’s History Month and 2023 as the 100th anniversary year of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, we are honored to share brief highlights of the five women who have served as its library directors. Since the 1923 founding of the WHSC Library, originally dedicated as the A.W. Calhoun…
Moving Forward, Looking Back: A Retrospective on WHSC Library Exhibits
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library is proud to announce the opening of our latest exhibition, Moving Forward, Looking Back: A Retrospective on WHSC Library Exhibits. The exhibition highlights the efforts of Emory faculty and library staff, past and present, to tell the history of medicine, nursing, public health, and the health sciences from an…
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library Turns 100!
The Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library was established in 1923 with a $10,000 gift from the Calhoun Family to support the Emory University School of Medicine. In 1924, M. Myrtle Tye was selected as the first full-time librarian and tasked with building and maintaining the library collections. Following Tye’s death in 1933, a $175 gift…
NEJM Evidence now available through Emory Libraries
The library now provides access to NEJM Evidence, a monthly digital journal from New England Journal of Medicine Group, that presents original research in clinical trial design and clinical decision-making. NEJM Evidence focuses on providing context and critical evaluation of the methods and results supporting clinical decision-making. Access is open to all Emory University faculty,…
WHSC Library Collection Highlights the History of Medicine
The Past is Present: Medical History highlights from the WHSC Library collections Now on display at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library are highlights from the history of medicine collections, in print and electronic format. Primary historical works as well as modern approaches to historical topics are featured in this selection of books on medical…
Library sponsors free FNLM webinar series on NIH Data Sharing: Jan 18, Feb 8, and Feb 22 at noon
The Emory Libraries will sponsor free access to the three-part virtual webinar series presented by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine: Advanced Methods of Data Science in Biomedical Research. This series is in direct response to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) new data sharing requirements going into effect January 2023. Similar topics…
WHSC Library Winter Hours
The WHSC Library will be adjusting its hours for the upcoming Winter Break. Beginning, Friday, Dec 16th the library will close at 6pm. Following the Emory University Winter Recess and Holiday policies, the library will be closed December 23rd through January 2nd, 2023. See below for further details or check out the hours page of…
Emory Campaign to Connect your ORCID iD
As shared in the Emory Report (Oct. 31), Emory University has launched an ORCID sign-up and linking campaign across all levels of the university. This is a permanent, unique identifier that will accurately connect you to your scholarly work, even beyond your career at Emory. This free identifier eliminates problems with name similarities, name changes,…