In honor of Women’s History Month in March, join us on March 29 and help edit Wikipedia to make sure women are represented. Only 19.16% of English Wikipedia biographies profile women, according to the Women in Red WikiProject. The Women of Wikipedia Edit-a-thon strives to write more articles about notable women of all races, nationalities, Read More …
If you’re a fan of self-help books or have even dabbled in the genre, you may have heard of “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman. According to Chapman, there are five ways in which people express and experience love: Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, Quality Time, and Physical Touch. While these Read More …
Historically Black colleges and universities Anti-lynching movements Afrofuturist fiction What do the above have in common? Answer: They are new terms that have recently been added to the Library of Congress’s list of authorized subject headings. They are ready to be used accordingly when relevant resources are added to the Emory Libraries catalog. A Read More …
On Tuesday, February 14, 2023, Emory will join the Colored Conventions Project in the national celebration of Frederick Douglass Day. The event brings together thousands of people from across the United States to sing Happy Birthday and work together to create new resources for the study of African American history. All members of the Emory Read More …
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 Read More …
Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (Rose Library) is partnering with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) for the upcoming ASO concert series featuring Conrad Tao on February 23 and 24 at the Woodruff Arts Center. The concert features Alabama composer William Levi Dawson’s “Negro Folk Symphony” (1934, revised ca. 1952). Rose Read More …
Hearing first-person stories from the front lines of the civil rights movement is becoming a rare opportunity these days, especially from someone so integral to Atlanta’s growth as a city during the 20th century. But students and others in the Emory and Atlanta communities will have that chance on Wednesday, February 22, when US Ambassador Read More …
Emory students, faculty, and staff can follow events surrounding the death of Tyre Nichols through the library’s subscriptions to local, national and international newspapers. Events leading to the death of Nichols and public response to the incident have been widely reported in the press. Thus far, we know that on January 7, Memphis police officers Read More …
