Clinton Fluker, curator of African American collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, has been appointed Emory University Libraries and Museum’s inaugural senior director of culture, community, and partner engagement for the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Emory Libraries effective June 1, 2023. Valeda F. Dent, Emory’s vice provost of libraries…
Overdrive app is changing to Libby
For Emory and Oxford students, faculty, and staff: The Overdrive app will be closed down in April 2023, but you will not lose access to Overdrive e-books and audiobooks. Download Overdrive’s new and improved app, Libby. The Libby app provides many new features for users including making it easy to read across devices from your…
Event with Atlanta Black photographers Jim Alexander and Tom Dorsey is March 23
Members of the Emory, Atlanta, and surrounding communities are invited to a conversation on Thursday, March 23, at 7 p.m. with celebrated Atlanta Black photographers Jim Alexander and Tom Dorsey. The conversation, to be held in the Jones Room in Emory University’s Woodruff Library, will be moderated by Carlton Mackey, assistant director, community dialogue and…
Get a little lit with the Short Story Dispenser
The word most people use to describe it is “cool.” Yes, there is a cool new interactive machine near the Banjo Coffee shop on Level 1 of Woodruff Library – a Short Story Dispenser. The dispenser is an Emory Arts project to highlight poems, prose, and comics by Emory authors, particularly students, as well as…
What we can learn from World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film is an annual observance held on March 11 all over the world, which has taken place for the past 13 years. This day was created in 2010 by Javed Mohammed, a writer and producer from California. The main aim of the celebration is to share and…
Announcing the 2023 Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award
Dear undergraduate students, did you work on a stellar research paper or digital project during the past academic year? If your answer is yes, please consider submitting it for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Award. The Emory Libraries are again sponsoring an award for undergraduate research. A panel of faculty and librarians from Emory’s Atlanta and…
Emory’s 2023 Women of Wikipedia Intersectional Editathon is March 29
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,…
February is Library Lovers Month!
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…
Cataloging for change: Accurately describing the African American experience
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…
“We should do more and talk less”: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Frederick Douglass Day
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…
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library turns 100!
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…
Rose Library’s William Dawson items to be exhibited at ASO concerts
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…
Rose Library Blog
- Papers & Pride: Rose Library and the LGBTQIA+ Community June 8, 2023By Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library Last summer, the National Archives of the United Kingdom tweeted: “We only know that it’s the hottest day on record because of archival records. Let that fact sink in.” While it was meant to be a bit humorous, it stuck with me. We only know that an...Gaby Hale
- Join our growing team! May 26, 2023By Jennifer Gunter King, Director of Rose Library The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library seeks nominations and applications for our next Curator of African American Collections and Curator for Literature and Poetry Collections positions. If you envision building library collections that advance research and public interests as part of a dynamic research...Erin Glogowski
- “An archivist of some kind that will come to my house after I am gone” – the Lucinda Bunnen Papers May 16, 2023by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the fifth post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. Today I accomplished something I had desired to do for a while: I managed to get the entirety of Lucinda’s collection onto one floor. To work on...Gaby Hale
- ‘Untitled’: A Collaborative Dance & Photography-Based Activation May 11, 2023written by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist for Rose Library. This month, visitors to the For Keeps Bookstore and Auburn Avenue Research Library will have the opportunity to watch performances curated by Sierra King and Rose Library’s Anicka Austin. The pair have been working together on a dance and performance-based activation that reflects their archival...Gaby Hale
- The Great Speckled Bird: Researching Georgia’s Radical Press and the New Left May 10, 2023Amanda Stafford is a PhD student at the University of Leeds in the UK. Her research looks at the interconnected histories of the radical press and the New Left in Georgia between 1968 and 1976. I was awarded a Stuart A. Rose Short Term Fellowship back in 2020 at the height of the Covid lockdown...Gaby Hale