Starting in February, Emory Libraries, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship will be coordinating a series of exhibitions and programs that will lead up to the World Cup soccer events in Atlanta in June and July. Updates will be made to the “Footwork” webpage as additional details become available. Read More …
The next Miscellaneous Month will be 1-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16, with the theme of typewriters and their impact on literature, activism, and art. Please note that the Woodruff Library is restricted to Emory cardholders only during this week due to final exams, so members of the public should send an email to gaby Read More …
For the first time, items from Emory’s Rose Library will be on exhibit at the world’s busiest airport, where millions of travelers coming through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international can take a break and explore materials on the history of hip hop in Atlanta and its torchbearer, EarWax Records. “Beyond the 50: Continuing Hip Hop’s Legacy in Read More …
Audience members can be a part of history when they attend “Artist & Influence: An Oral History Interview with Noah Jemisin in conversation with Halima Taha” on Friday, Nov. 7, at 6:30 p.m. The event, inspired by the Artist & Influence journal and interview series created by Camille Billops and James V. Hatch, will be Read More …
An online repository of Emory University researchers’ work recently got a makeover with a new site that’s more accessible, easier to use, and quicker to load. OpenEmory is a digital repository where Emory researchers can deposit their published journal articles, book chapters, and even entire books (as publishers’ policies allow). Users can also share unpublished Read More …
Thousands of iconic images of African American authors, athletes, artists and activists will soon be easier to access and explore, thanks to a three-year grant from the Getty Foundation for Black Visual Arts Archives. The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University recently received the $280,000 grant to process the Read More …
Amanda J. Wilson has been selected as Emory University’s next associate university librarian and director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, starting Aug. 25. Wilson joins Emory Libraries from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), where she served as the deputy director of the User Services and Collection Division. She has worked at NLM Read More …
Many times over the last 12 years, a visitor brought a special item to the class of Robert Gaynes, professor emeritus of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. The visitor usually was Sandra Franklin, director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library. The item? Emory’s first edition of the 1543 book, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” Read More …
Emory University faculty and instructors can take part in an upcoming High Museum workshop for educators that includes dinner at no cost, thanks to the partnership between Emory and the High. Every year, the High Museum partners with the Alliance Theatre and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to create a day of teaching and learning for educators. Read More …
Looking for ways to make your research – and your life – a bit easier as the semester comes to a close and summer approaches? Emory Libraries and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship are here to help with two initiatives that make our resources more available and accessible. ECDS has established a website of Read More …
Emory Libraries has been selected to host the 2025 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership Symposium, which will be held Feb. 26–March 1 in the Woodruff Library’s Jones Room. The ARL Annual Leadership Symposium is a professional development program for those in library degree programs, focused on ARL’s strategic priorities, career transitions, and networking in Read More …
Kevin Young, an award-winning poet, former Emory professor and Rose Library curator, and poetry editor of The New Yorker, returns to Emory University to share his work at two events in March. Young will be the special guest poet at the 25th anniversary 12th Night Revel, the annual fundraiser for the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Read More …
