Attention, Emory faculty and students: You can have an impact on the future plans for the Libraries. Emory Libraries is seeking faculty and student volunteers to share how they use library spaces in brief tours with consultants, and discuss the Libraries’ current and future needs in focus groups. We are currently developing a Master Plan Read More …
In August, Student Digital Life opened MediaLab in the former Emory College Language Lab space across from the Music & Media Library desk. This new multimedia production space is equipped with industry leading tools and services and allows students to create projects using a variety of software and hardware. Along with video (Adobe Premiere and Read More …
It’s been a busy summer of renovations and construction for the Emory Libraries, and several projects are about to be finished and ready to open for fall semester. The total renovation of MARBL on Level 10 of the Woodruff Library is getting some finishing touches and will open initially for instruction and reading room use Read More …
Make learning a new language your goal! In the 21st century, proficiencies in foreign languages and cultures are becoming crucial for the workplace and can give anyone’s career a boost. However, as any learners of languages can attest, attaining proficiency in a foreign language requires consistent and frequent practice over a long period of time. Read More …
Could smallpox have changed the outcome of the American Revolution? Leaders worried that it could. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both went to tremendous and dangerous lengths to obtain inoculations against deadly smallpox. Washington sought to inoculate the entire Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and Jefferson was so thrilled by the development of the Read More …
This Week’s Featured Database: Met Opera on Demand, from the Metropolitan Opera. Find it: http://pid.emory.edu/f85vz or visit our databases page and search met opera. Description/focus: Delivers streamed video and audio of Metropolitan Opera productions. Includes HD videos of operas from the “Live in HD” series of movie-theater transmissions (available after their transmission dates), videos shown Read More …
Come join us for a conversation about archival research, both domestic and international. Hear how two Emory graduate students planned and conducted research in archives, and pick-up practical tips that will save you time and produce better scholarship. Understanding Archives Brown Bag Series: Practical Archives Research Tips with Cecily Boles and Catherine Barth Wednesday, March Read More …
Join us for “Teaching with Archives” with Donna Troka on Monday, Feb. 9th from 4-5:30pm in the Jones Room. Refreshments will be served. The “Understanding Archives” Speaker Series is sponsored by the Archives Research Program and is intended to touch on various topics related to working in archives and special collections libraries. The theme Read More …
The Laney Graduate School and several Emory partner entities offer fellowships to advanced graduate students. (see all fellowships here) Emory Library & Information Technology Services (LITS) is offering 7 fellowships for 2015-2016. Five Woodruff/ECDS Graduate Fellowships (available to any full time students in a doctoral program in candidacy at the time of application) Woodruff Read More …
Join us January 23 + 24, 2015 for the B-SIDE Modernism Conference in the Jones Room, Woodruff Library (10am-6pm) For a detailed schedule, click here: http://nonsite.org/events The last 50 years of literary scholarship on modernism have resulted in some vital realignments of the canon, expanding and challenging earlier visions of what modernism is and isn’t. Read More …
Next time you access a library research database on-campus, you’ll be prompted to enter your Emory NetID and password, just as you currently are prompted to do so off-campus.This aligns the library’s authentication system for accessing e-books, e-journals, databases with the same system used to access other Emory resources, such as OPUS and Blackboard. What Read More …
Check out Emory Libraries’ popular reading collections, films, and music in discoverE, The library collects bestsellers and award winners in many languages, so there should be something for everyone, including the kids. New discoverE enhancements include a popular reading collection facet and virtual browsing. We hope this helps you find the perfect book to read Read More …
