Level 1 in Woodruff Library will be undergoing renovations this summer, starting on May 9th. These renovations will add more seating, a variety of new furniture, and additional power outlets to the Learning Commons on Level 1. To accomplish this goal, a large percentage of the microform and print government document collections on Level 1…
Gillian Hecht Receives Honorable Mention from Woodruff Library’s Atwood Undergraduate Research Award Judges
At the Emory Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Awards Ceremony on May 1, Gillian Hecht, History major in the Class of 2018, received an Honorable Mention from the 2017 Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award judges for her “History 488RW: The Professions in America” paper entitled, “The Rise and Fall of the Emory Dental School.” In her Research…
Andrew Sullins Receives Woodruff Library’s Atwood Undergraduate Research Award
At the Emory Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Awards Ceremony on May 1, Andrew Sullins, Political Science major in the Class of 2018, received the 2017 Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award for his African American Studies 412W: War Crimes and Genocide, class paper, “Covert Killings: Civilian Casualties and the Use of Covert Drone Strikes in the War on…
Cloe Gentile Receives Woodruff Library’s Atwood Undergraduate Research Award
At the Emory Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Awards Ceremony on May 1, Cloe Gentile, Music and Sociology double major in the Class of 2017, received the 2017 Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award for her Music Honors Thesis, “Larsen as a Lens: the Male Gaze and the Female Voice.” In her Research Strategy Essay, Cloe described how her…
Andrea Abbate Receives Woodruff Library’s Atwood Undergraduate Research Award
At the Emory Libraries’ Undergraduate Research Awards Ceremony on May 1, Andrea Abbate, Sociology and English double major in the Class of 2017, received the 2017 Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award for her Sociology Honors Thesis, “Food Security vs. Food Sovereignty: A Qualitative Analysis of Food Justice Narratives and Activist Identities Among Community Gardeners…
Library student employees SUMMER READS
Students working in the Emory Libraries tend to be voracious readers. When they finally get a break from the academic year’s required reading, you’ll find some of them already have a list of books they’re looking forward to enjoying in the warm-weather months. Here’s a peek at what made it onto their summer reading lists:…
Alumni and the Library
As you prepare for graduation, you can count on many of the same great library services as alumni, which you’ve come to expect as a student. As Emory alumni, you will always have access to the library. You only need to update your record at the Library Service Desk, then you can continue to check…
Put a badge on it: incentives for data sharing and reproducibility
How do you encourage researchers to share the data underlying their publications? The journal Psychological Science introduced a digital badge system in 2014 to signify when authors make the data and related materials accompanying their articles openly available. Criteria to earn the Open Data badge include (1) sharing data via a publicly accessible repository with…
Circulating laptops available in Woodruff Library
The Music & Media Library has started to circulate a small collection of four MacBook and six Dell laptops for a circulating period of seven days. This collection was created in response to requests from faculty, staff, and students, for whom the 3-hour circulating collection was not meeting their needs. Many of the faculty and staff use the computers…
Sciku Winner
In an effort to help promote the Atlanta Science Festival this year, the Emory Libraries collaborated with ASF to conduct a pair of science haiku (sciku) contests in the Science Commons’ book alcove. The first contest ended Friday, March 10th, and the winner was Julia Gensheimer, a chemistry major in the class of 2019. Three…
Armchair Space Travel
By Kristan Majors This week the 2017 Atlanta Science Festival launches here on campus with astronaut Captain Mark Kelly. In recognition of this, Emory’s librarians have compiled a list of science fiction about space travel and other worlds. Emory faculty, students, and staff can check out any of the books from the Science Commons exhibit. …
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – Tuesday, March 21, 5:30-8:30 PM
Edit Wikipedia for the greater good! For the second year in a row, Emory University Libraries will host a local event for the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Art + Feminism is a worldwide campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to empower new editors. The event will be held as…
MARBL Blog
- Alfonso Chacón’s Comprehensive Documentation of Trajan’s Column June 1, 2017Alfonso Chacón lived from 1530-1599 CE and was a Spanish Dominican scholar in Rome. He was an expert of ancient Graeco-Roman and Paleo-Christian epigraphy and was knowledgeable in medieval paleography and manuscripts. His work Historia Vtriusque Belli Dacici a Traiano Caesare Gesti : Ex Simulachris Quae in Columna Eiusdem Romae Visuntur Collecta, published in 1576,...Heather Oswald
- A Repulsive Monument to Stone Mountain and Black Resistance May 23, 2017In summer 2016, Barry Mauer, associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida, conducted research with Rose Library’s Kelly Miller family papers and Stone Mountain collection. The “repulsive monument” is a textual genre invented by Gregory Ulmer. Repulsive monuments honor abject losses, which result from a collective’s behaviors but are...Heather Oswald
- Collection spotlight: Boisfeuillet Jones papers May 15, 2017The 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...Heather Oswald
- Medieval Europe in Atlanta: The Value of Facsimiles April 6, 2017Over the past three years, a large part of my research as a medieval art historian has been on a manuscript of Las Cantigas de Santa María, a 13th century Spanish collection of miracle stories performed by the Virgin Mary. The manuscript is currently kept in the library of El Escorial, approximately 4,000 miles away from...Heather Oswald
- Honoring Verdelle Bellamy February 24, 2017This week our intern Sophia Queen took a break from her usual research on Yun Ch’i-Ho to focus on the narrative of integration at Emory. In honor of Black History Month, we explore the stories of the men and women who helped integrate the university. Because of Emory’s status as a private institution, desegregation was...Heather Oswald