EmoryThanks is Thursday, Nov. 9, at stations all over the Emory campus! It’s a chance for students, faculty, and staff to write a thank-you note to Emory donors. Come to the front of the Woodruff Library on Nov. 9 between 10 am and 2 pm (inside the lobby if it’s raining) to thank an Emory Read More …
The You Spoke/We Listened campaign continues in November and December with a focus on how the Libraries can help you with your classes. Many of you told us you aren’t aware of all the resources and services the Libraries offer. The Libraries’ Outreach and Education team has developed a new research guide called Find It, Read More …
Over the course of this month, we’ve seen a good deal of news around sharing scholarly research on the ResearchGate platform. October 6, 2017 A new alliance of academic publishers formed the Coalition for Responsible Sharing, in order to combat the unauthorized distribution of published articles. Two of the Coalition’s members, Elsevier and the American Read More …
Daniel Mulhall, Ireland’s ambassador to the United States, will give a lecture titled ” ‘To Sweeten Ireland’s Wrong’: W.B. Yeats in the 1890s” on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. in the Jones Room at Emory University’s Woodruff Library. The event is open to the public at no charge. Mulhall is an avid scholar Read More …
In honor of Open Access Week 2017, the Scholarly Communications Office and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry have curated the exhibit Open Access and the Book, exploring the benefits of open access books for authors and readers. If you are an Emory faculty member interested in publishing your next book as open access, the Read More …
An exhibition of materials celebrating the contributions of the Beat writers, poets, and artists will debut next month at Emory University. “The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940–1975,” which opens Sept. 28, 2017, in the Schatten Gallery at Emory’s Woodruff Library, draws from collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Read More …
Local poets and members of the Emory community will participate in poetry readings and a group recitation of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Emory University’s Woodruff Library. The event, open to the public at no charge, will take place in the Jones Room on level 3 of Read More …
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University has received an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant for $107,706 to organize a community-based project that will address the rising rates of HIV/AIDS in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Entitled “Revisiting R.A.C.E.: Leveraging Archival Resources for AIDS Education,” the project will forge Read More …
New York City-based photographer Hugo Fernandes will join Randy Gue, curator of modern, political and historical collections at Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, for a conversation about his work on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. in the Jones Room at the Woodruff Library on the Emory University campus. Open Read More …
Video and audio recordings are an important part of the collections at Emory University. As recording formats change, user accessibility can become problematic. Currently, we are in the middle of an ongoing project to digitize many out of print videos on Umatic tape, an obsolete format that has been out of use since the 1980s, Read More …
Emory University’s libraries are home to many impressive and diverse collections of historic and educational resources. Students and researchers at Emory University rely on the libraries to provide educational materials and access to unique manuscripts and artifacts. Like any other historic artifact, books and archive materials need specialized treatment to ensure that they will be available Read More …
The Preservation Office regularly works with the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, home to many books, works on paper, and even historic artifacts. An interesting historic artifact that recently came to the conservation lab for rehousing was poet Seamus Heaney’s writing desk which consists of two long wooden planks. Because of Read More …
