Woodruff Library invites all members of the Emory community to take a Nowruz-themed quiz. This is an opportunity to showcase your knowledge and to learn about the Persian New Year, celebrated from the Balkans, through the Caucasus, to Central Asia. To enter the prize drawing, simply answer the quiz questions correctly between March 20 and Read More …
On Wednesday, March 5, Emory Libraries hosted “The Expanding Public Domain,” a symposium celebrating Public Domain Day. Public Domain Day falls on January 1 of every year, when new works enter into the public domain. In 2025, works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 entered into the public domain. The symposium was originally supposed Read More …
Dear Emory undergraduate students, It is our pleasure to invite your applications for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Award. This award celebrates undergraduate researchers with outstanding library research skills, scholarly vigor, creativity, and sophistication. Emory Libraries sponsors four $1,000 prizes for original research papers, digital projects, or posters. A panel of judges composed of faculty members Read More …
Emory Libraries has launched a campus-wide engagement survey to learn how members of our community perceive and use the libraries’ services, programs, and spaces. Our last survey, distributed in 2022, provided valuable feedback from our most frequent users that helped us to shape our policies, collections, and offerings over the last three years. However, we Read More …
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is the proud home of the C.T. and Octavia Vivian papers. Emory University acquired the collection in 2014 and since that time, it has been a boon for scholars, students, and faculty researching the civil rights movement and its aftermath. A new exhibit, “Hello Darling”: Read More …
This Black History Month, read acclaimed African American authors from the physical and digital collections of the Emory Libraries. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, NAACP Image Awards, Caldecott Medal and more—these authors inspire and celebrate Black excellence. Visit the second floor of the Woodruff Library to find our selection of Read More …
The database PressReader was launched in 1999 as an overnight print-on-demand service to hotels wishing to provide global news to their guests. That year was memorable for other things, too, for example, the airing of the last season of the television show “Early Edition.” In each episode, for an inexplicable reason, the following day’s edition Read More …
It’s quite easy to type a few keywords into a library search engine and forget that there is a human (actually, many humans) working behind the scenes and contributing to the results you see. Scrolling through a library catalog, like Emory’s Library Search, everything seems polished and objective. Interestingly, library catalogs have long been a Read More …
Colorful works by Indigenous artists await Atlanta audiences and the Emory community when Emory Libraries opens the exhibition “This Land Calls Us Home: Indigenous Relationships with Southeastern Homelands.” The exhibition, which opens Monday, Jan. 27, in the Schatten Gallery on Level 3 of Emory’s Robert W. Woodruff Library, will feature the work of 25 contemporary Native Read More …
Emory Libraries is one of the ten institutions in the world to hold the full run of the Jewish magazine Pee-pee-fox, also known as Pipifoḳs (transliteration) and in Hebrew script פיפיפאקס—according to Worldcat.org. At the beginning of 2024, the acquisition of this periodical was made possible through Emory Libraries’ Davis III Humor Endowment. As of Read More …
While Emory University has a full calendar of offerings for the upcoming King Week, Emory Libraries and the Carlos Museum will recognize King Week and Black History Month in February with events, exhibits and resources of their own. Events and exhibits Emory Libraries’ Research and Engagement Services and Scholarly Communications instruction team will host a Read More …
Between January 14th and 25th, members of the Emory community will commemorate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. during King Week. The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday first came into being in 1983, when President Reagan signed a bill to make King’s birthday a legal public holiday. It is the only federally-designated Read More …
