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Armchair Space Travel

By Kristan Majors This week the 2017 Atlanta Science Festival launches here on campus with astronaut Captain Mark Kelly.  In recognition of this, Emory’s librarians have compiled a list of science fiction about space travel and other worlds. Emory faculty, students, and staff can check out any of the books from the Science Commons exhibit.  Read More …

Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – Tuesday, March 21, 5:30-8:30 PM

Edit Wikipedia for the greater good! For the second year in a row, Emory University Libraries will host a local event for the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Art + Feminism is a worldwide campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to empower new editors. The event will be held as Read More …

Emory Libraries celebrates 100 Years of Women at Emory with event and exhibit on history-making students

The Emory Libraries will host two events on April 5 that celebrate a century of women at the University and the challenges in women’s leadership and education going forward. “Educated=Empowered: 100 Years of Emory Women as Change-Makers” will feature a panel discussion on the ways higher education has empowered women, why women’s history and voices matter, and Read More …

LITS welcomes applications for Graduate Student Fellowships

The Laney Graduate School and several Emory partner entities offer fellowships to advanced graduate students.  (See all fellowships at http://www.gs.emory.edu/professional-development/fellowships/advanced.html )  Emory Library & Information Technology Services (LITS) is offering 7 fellowships for 2017-18 Deadline: Feb 17 by 4pm Emory Libraries Alice Walker Fellowship –  Guidelines Emory Libraries/ECDS Data Services Fellowship     Guidelines Emory Libraries/ECDS Digital Read More …

African American Studies and U.S. history librarian Erica Bruchko helps students and faculty navigate Emory Libraries’ vast resources

Part of an occasional series of profiles on Woodruff Library librarians, a valuable resource at Emory University. Emory Libraries’ African American history collection is so vast that it can be hard to know where to begin. Luckily, Erica Bruchko, African American Studies and U.S. history librarian, is ready with guidance and recommendations for students and Read More …

U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to give free poetry reading at Emory Feb. 19

U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will give a free reading at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory University campus at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. Tickets are not required, but seating will be limited. Books and a limited-edition broadside will be for sale at the reading, with a signing immediately Read More …

‘Memorial Drive’ 2017 program series opens with history of movie censorship in Atlanta

Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will host the first event in its 2017 “Memorial Drive” series with a program about two dynamic women who decided what films would be shown or banned in Atlanta movie theaters for four decades. Matthew H. Bernstein, Goodrich C. White professor and chair of Emory’s Department Read More …

Political science librarian Chris Palazzolo shares passion for politics with students and faculty

Part of an occasional series of profiles on Woodruff Library librarians, a valuable resource at Emory University. With the inauguration of a new president less than two weeks away, and a contentious presidential election season in the rearview mirror, it’s been a busy academic year so far for social sciences librarian Chris Palazzolo. But then, Read More …

Billops-Hatch exhibition series of public events kicks off Jan. 24 with Fahamu Pecou

Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will host a series of public events in support of “Still Raising Hell: The Art, Activism, and Archives of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch,” an exhibition now on view in the Robert W. Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery. The events, which are free and open to the Read More …

2016 in Review: Could most circulated American Literature titles make good holiday reading material?

Last year we suggested for your winter break some new books Emory’s librarians wanted to read, but this year we thought it would be fun to share what the university has been reading this year. Below is a list of Emory’s most heavily circulated American literature titles in 2016. Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Read More …