MAP IT series: A Modern Old Master? Using Historical GIS to Chart El Greco’s Influence on the French Avant-Garde

Ellen Prokop, (Ph.D.) Associate Photoarchivist at the Frick Art Reference Library and an art historian who specializes in Spanish art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, will deliver the fifth and LAST lecture in the of the MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas series on Monday, 11 April , at 5.30 PM in the Read More …

Library White Board Art by Procrastinating Student(s)

Library White Board Art by Procrastinating Student(s)     “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married (www.goodreads.com)   “You may delay, but time will not.” ― Benjamin Franklin (www.goodreads.com)           “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” Read More …

MAP IT series: historical geographic information systems (HGIS)

S Wright Kennedy, a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University, will deliver the fourth lecture in the of the MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas series on Tuesday, 1 March,  at 5.30 PM in the Jones Room, Woodruff Library.  This presentation discusses the opportunities and limitations of the emerging historical geographic Read More …

Dissertation/Prospectus Writing Boot Camps

In the academic year 2015-2016, we have planned a total of six Dissertation/Prospectus Writing Boot Camps, including both two-day and one-day boot camps evenly spread throughout the year. Each full day session runs for eight hours with regular breaks. With the generous support from the Laney Graduate School, the Woodruff Library, and the Emory Writing Read More …

MAP IT series: Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes, 2/15 in White Hall 111

Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago) will deliver the third lecture of the MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas series on Monday, 15 February, at 5.30 PM in the White Hall 111.  (**please note this new location**) He will discuss Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes, a DH project that focuses on Renaissance Florence, taking inspiration Read More …

Ancient Egyptian Art Reference book by Carlos Curator Wins PROSE Award

Hartwig, Melinda K. A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art. 2015. Congratulations to the Michael C. Carlos Museum curator, Melinda Hartwig, whose 2015 reference title,  A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art, won the PROSE award in the category of Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Science. A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art is a first-of-a-kind reference work Read More …

MAP IT series: Enchanting the Desert lecture Feb. 1st at 5:30pm, Jones Room

Nicholas Bauch (Ph.D., UCLA, 2010, Geography) from Stanford University will deliver the second lecture of the MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas series on Monday, 1 February, at 5.30 PM in the Woodruff Library Jones Room.  He will discuss,  Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon. The MAP IT Read More …

Expand your knowledge with Lynda.com

Lynda.com offers thousands of online learning videos on nearly every topic you can think of – from software like Photoshop, Excel, InDesign, Java, Final Cut Pro, and more, to business and career development areas such as making better presentations, leadership, communication tips, and media training, to name a few. Now current Emory students, faculty and Read More …

MAP IT series: Tracing The Arctic Regions lecture Jan 25th at 5:30pm, Jones Room

George Philip LeBourdais of Stanford University will deliver the first lecture of the MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas series on Monday, 25 January, at 5.30 PM in the Woodruff Library Jones Room.  He will discuss,  Tracing The Arctic Regions: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Greenland The MAP IT series features six public lectures. See: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/dmh/ Read More …

Pardon our dust; library systems, ejournals page changing over the holidays

On December 16, the library systems that supply information to discoverE will change. [UPDATE: The migration was a success! Some system integration work continues. Thanks to all. ] We are replacing the software that library staff use to order, pay for, catalog, and circulate library materials. Library users will continue to use discoverE to search for Read More …

Check out the Science Commons

The Science Commons occupies much of the second floor of the recently completed Sanford S. Atwood Chemistry Center addition.  Accentuated by the 4-story atrium, the newest incarnation of the chemistry library is an open space full of glass and light.  In the words of David Lynn, the out-going Chair of the Chemistry department, “this is Read More …