Serious fun: Emory Libraries conservation workshops in context

This fall, the conservation team will offer another opportunity in our series of free, drop-in workshops. These informal workshops offer a chance for spontaneous creativity in the context of learning about serious conservation research on materials and techniques of historical book bindings. In 2023, summer conservation intern Devon Blankenbaker led a workshop on paper marbling. Read More …

Analog to digital: Reflections of a media preservation intern

I had the pleasure of being the first media preservation intern at Emory Libraries this summer. The media preservation department is split into the audiovisual labs, the 2D and 3D still imaging labs, and the metadata services team. This department, as a whole, works together to digitally capture the information found in different media formats, Read More …

Emory Preservation Department and Rose Library host Home Movie Day 2024

Celebrating World Digital Preservation Day 2024 on Thursday, Nov. 7! On October 17 at Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory Libraries Preservation Department and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library hosted Home Movie Day 2024, a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking from the Emory Libraries collections. Guided by the Center for Read More …