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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 Read More …

“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 Read More …

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 Read More …

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 Read More …

Andrew Young, Ernie Suggs to discuss new book Feb. 22

Hearing first-person stories from the front lines of the civil rights movement is becoming a rare opportunity these days, especially from someone so integral to Atlanta’s growth as a city during the 20th century. But students and others in the Emory and Atlanta communities will have that chance on Wednesday, February 22, when US Ambassador Read More …

Tyre Nichols and researching police violence in the news

Emory students, faculty, and staff can follow events surrounding the death of Tyre Nichols through the library’s subscriptions to local, national and international newspapers. Events leading to the death of Nichols and public response to the incident have been widely reported in the press. Thus far, we know that on January 7, Memphis police officers Read More …

New Open Access Publishing Agreements

Emory Libraries is pleased to announce that as of January 1, 2023, all Emory University researchers (i.e., anyone with an emory.edu email address) can publish open access in all American Chemical Society (ACS), Royal Society (RS), and Institute of Physics (IOP) journals at no cost to the researcher. These costs – called article processing charges Read More …

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023

On January 27, we honor those whose lives were forever changed by Nazism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of more than 6,000 people from Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces, is a day of international mourning for the suffering of the millions of victims of the Holocaust, Read More …

AI and I: On the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities

Pulp Fiction in the style of Wes Anderson; Monet’s garden depicted by Edward Hopper; you as an ancient Egyptian pharaoh . . . Some of our wildest imaginations can now take material form in the digital world with the help of artificial intelligence. AI art generators consume data from all over the internet, remix and Read More …

US Poet Laureate Ada Limón to give reading at Emory University

Ada Limón, the current US poet laureate, will give a public reading at Emory University on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, at 3 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium. Books will be for sale at the reading, with a signing immediately following the event. Attendees can register for the reading, which is open to the public at no Read More …

Emory Libraries incorporates Homosaurus vocabulary in the library catalog

Historically, the classification and cataloging of LGBTQ+ materials in libraries has been less than inclusive. While the overriding desire of Emory catalogers is to make your resources relevant and representative – as well as easy to find – we have been restricted by a traditional approach that can sometimes feel limited, or even biased. Fortunately, Read More …

Public Domain Day January 1, 2023: Works from 1927 are open to all

On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 entered the US public domain. They are now free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, Read More …