Emory Libraries just added over 130,000 ebooks for patrons to access via DiscoverE. These titles are part of Academic Complete, a large ever-growing collection from EBrary/Proquest, purchased (as a subscription) by the GALILEO consortium. The collection is interdisciplinary and covers numerous publishers and subject areas, including history, the social sciences, medicine, and science and technology….
Monthly Archives: March 2016
MAP IT series: Mapping the Commercial Gallery System in Nineteenth-Century London
Pamela Fletcher, (Ph.D.) Professor of Art History at Bowdoin University and CAA Reviews Editor for the Digital Humanities and Art History, will deliver the fourth lecture in the of the MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas series on Monday, 28 March, at 5.30 PM in the Woodruff Library’s Jones Room, level 3. Her research…
Academy of Motion Pictures Archives Panel, March 29, 1 p.m., Rose Library
On Tuesday, March 29th at 1:00 pm, archivists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ (AMPAS) Margaret Herrick Library, Academy Film Archive and Oral History Projects Division will present “Documenting the Movies,” a panel on conducting research in film and film-related archives. Presenters will discuss their efforts to preserve and share the Academy’s manuscript, film and oral history collections, and…
New Database: SNCC, CORE, Claude Barnett, and Robert F. Williams Papers in Proquest’s History Vault
Welcome to New Databases! This blog series from the Robert W. Woodruff Library is intended to give you a brief introduction to databases that you may not know and to provide you with some tips to get you started. To explore all of our databases, please visit Emory Library’s databases page Featured database: Proquest’s History Vault, Black Freedom…
Learn about Atlanta’s rapid 20th-century growth with panel discussion and new Woodruff Library exhibition
The city of Atlanta experienced rapid growth during the second half of the 20th century. A new exhibition now on view at Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, called “Changing Atlanta 1950-1999: The Challenges of a Growing Southern Metropolis,” illustrates how city leaders and citizens met those challenges. A panel discussion with curators on April…