The Emory Oral History Program (EOHP) joins in celebrating the National First-Generation College Day! First-generation college students, staff, and faculty have participated in oral history interviews with us since 2017. In fact, the Emory Oral History Program has grown from an initial project to interview first-generation students, and we want to share some insights from…
Emory Libraries Celebrates National American Indian Heritage Month
November is National American Indian Heritage Month, also commonly called American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. The first American Indian Day was celebrated by a few state governments shortly after the turn of the 20th century, but it wasn’t until 1990 that the federal government proclaimed the month of November as a time…
Share your fall 2020 experiences with remote services on our survey
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we teach, learn, and do research. Emory Libraries is conducting a survey of Emory University students, faculty, and staff to learn more about their fall 2020 experiences with remote teaching and learning, virtual library resources and services, and online workshops to discover what improvements we can make. Please…
LGBTQ+ History Month: Centering Black Queer Histories
Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! This month, Emory Libraries is celebrating the experiences and histories of Black queer folks. Too often, the queer experience is reduced to the histories of white, cisgender men, leaving out other voices. The resources we have highlighted for this month, divided into Individual and Personal Perspectives and Academic and Ethnographic Perspectives,…
Celebrating International Pronouns Day October 21
Today is International Pronouns Day! Emory Libraries celebrates the entirety of every person who comes through our doors, and we are proud to promote respect and affirmation of everyone’s pronouns. What is a pronoun, anyway? Pronouns are the words that we use when referring to each other in the third person. For example, I use…
Voting Rights: Vote Like Your Life Depends on It
This is the third in a series of blog posts that brings together Emory Libraries’ resources with the current struggle to foster social change and anti-racism. Over the course of the series, topics include Black Student Activism at Emory, Protests and Movements, Voting Rights, and Authors and Artists as Activists. We hope the connections that…
Emory undergraduates: Join us for Library Day on October 20!
The Emory Libraries Student Ambassadors (ELSA), in partnership with the Emory Libraries, are excited to host our first virtual Library Day on Tuesday, Oct. 20. The event runs from 4–6pm, and you don’t even have to leave wherever you are to join us! Log on to hear about library resources and upcoming events! Meet your…
National Hispanic Heritage Month: Sources for Feature Films
As National Hispanic Heritage Month comes to a close on Oct. 15, we’d like to highlight some additional resources. The Emory Libraries hold thousands of streaming video titles, including educational documentaries, feature films, and primary source materials such as interviews. This blog post focuses on some of the platforms and feature films that may be…
Meet 2020-2021 Woodruff Fellow – Kemal Budak
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from? I am originally from Turkey, but I came to the United States in 2007. After living in several cities in Texas, my family and I finally moved to Atlanta in 2015 so that I could begin my graduate studies here at Emory. 2….
Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020
The city of Atlanta, where Emory University is located, sits on the ancestral lands of the Mvskoke (Muscogee) Creek Nation. On this day, we contemplate the ways in which the histories and experiences of Native people have been obfuscated in service to systemic racism and oppression. The Emory Libraries are committed to working towards restorative justice. In honor of…
Meet 2020-2021 Woodruff Fellow – Anastasiia Strakhova
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from? I am a doctoral candidate specializing in Modern Jewish and Russian history. I was born in raised in Ukraine. I did my undergraduate degree there and then received an MA at Central Europe University in Budapest, Hungary. As an international student who has…
Meet 2020-2021 Woodruff Fellow – Alexandra Lemos Zagonel
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from? I’m a 5th year doctoral candidate in Latin American History and mother of a 4-year-old. I was born and lived in Brazil for most of my life and migrated to the U.S. along with my husband eleven years ago. We first lived in…
Rose Library Blog
- Getting to Know Anicka Austin, Visiting Archivist for Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers November 20, 2020Rose Library is staffed by an amazing group of people who are knowledgeable, friendly, and passionate about archives. The “Getting to Know…” blog post series asks 5 questions so our staff can introduce themselves in their own words. Visiting Archivist for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers Anicka Austin What do you do...Lolita Rowe
- Getting to Know Tierra Thomas, Visiting Archivist for Southern Jewish Collections November 19, 2020Rose Library is staffed by an amazing group of people who are knowledgeable, friendly, and passionate about archives. The “Getting to Know…” blog post series asks 5 questions so our staff can introduce themselves in their own words. What do you do at Rose Library? I am the Visiting Archivist for Southern Jewish Collections. In...Lolita Rowe
- Introducing the Rose Library’s Anti-Oppressive Archival Description Working Group November 18, 2020This is the first entry in a planned series to share the Rose Library’s ongoing work to create more inclusive archival description. Future posts will explore past and present work in more depth, including more detailed explanation of terminology and exploration of why this work is necessary in archives. In this first post, however, I...Lolita Rowe
- The Panther and The Pig – The Black Panther Party and the Art of Political Communication November 12, 2020Shelly Asquith In October 2019, Shelly Asquith, a postgraduate student at the University of Leeds, conducted research as a Rose Library fellow, funded by the J. Herman Blake and Emily L. Moore Award for research in the Black Panther Party collections. I would like to thank the Rose library workers who were so accommodating, professional and generous...Lolita Rowe
- Following the Fellow: Arthur Reese on African Americans in World War I November 11, 2020In June 2019, Associate Professor and Technical Director in the Theatre and Dance Department of North Carolina Central University, Arthur Reese, and has been awarded a Rose fellowship in support of his planned series of plays on African Americans’ contributions via the U.S. military. African Americans have served in every US conflict from the Revolution...Lolita Rowe