Category: Library Resources

Apply for the 2026 Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award

Posted onAuthorKatalin Rac

As in previous years, the Atwood Undergraduate Research Award committee invites applications for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research 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. The panel of judges (composed of Read More …

New primary source e-resources available in Databases@Emory

Posted onAuthorjwfish3

We are excited to announce the addition of several new primary source databases. These new resources can be found in Databases@Emory. The resources were added as part of an Emory Libraries contribution in FY2025 to a joint library offer from the vendor Adam Matthew by way of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) that Read More …

Puppets, Poe, and the Gothic Archive Event

Posted onAuthorKim Collins

Register to join us for the “Puppets, Poe, and the Gothic Archive,” event on Thursday, February 26 at 7PM in the Jones Room of the Robert W Woodruff Library. Emory Libraries are partnering with the Center for Puppetry Arts to celebrate the Center’s spring production of The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. The event will Read More …

Celebrate Black History Month with Carter G. Woodson

Posted onAuthorErica Bruchko

This Black History Month, take a moment to explore the life and legacy of Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950), often recognized as the “father of Negro History.” Woodson was self-educated as a child and did not begin formal secondary schooling until the age of 20. He nonetheless remained committed to education and went on to earn Read More …

Library Search is Getting an Upgrade!

Posted onAuthorEmory Libraries

Good news! Emory’s libraries are upgrading Library Search (the library catalog) with a new interface that makes finding books, articles, and research materials easier and more efficient.  While the new interface will look and feel a little different, it will function similarly with some added enhancements: • Search for articles and books together – Search books, Read More …

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026

Posted onAuthorKatalin Rac

In November 2005, the United Nations designated January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Eighty-one years ago, on this day in 1945, the Red Army (of the Soviet Union) liberated the concentration camp complex Auschwitz-Birkenau. Thus, since 2006, on every Read More …

Emory Libraries, ECDS honor King Week and Black History Month

Posted onAuthorMaureen McGavin

While Emory University has a full calendar of offerings for the upcoming King Week, Emory Libraries and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) will recognize King Week next week and Black History Month in February with events and resources of their own. Events “Jim Crow in the Asylum”: Kylie Smith in Conversation with Vanessa Read More …

Emory Libraries celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. and King Week 2026 with documentary films

Posted onAuthorJames M Steffen PhD

Between January 12–24, members of the Emory community will commemorate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. during King Week. The federal holiday commemorating Dr. King was officially established in 1983, when President Ronald Reagan signed legislation designating King’s birthday as a national public holiday. Its passage followed years of persistent advocacy led Read More …

Works from 1930 enter the US public domain

Posted onAuthorEmory Libraries

Every year, on January 1, works previously protected by copyright enter the public domain in the United States and become free for everyone to use. On Jan. 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 entered the public domain in the United States, along with sound recordings from 1925. Works in the public domain are Read More …

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Woodruff Library reducing book retrieval services from Stacks

Posted onAuthorKim Collins

As of January 2, 2026, Woodruff Library will reduce book retrieval services from Woodruff Stacks. We will no longer retrieve and place on hold physical books listed as available (on the shelf) in the Woodruff Library stacks, except for delivery to the Oxford Library or as a disability accommodation. Like the entire campus, the library Read More …

Emory Libraries has your holiday reading, viewing, and listening options for 2025

Posted onAuthorGautham M. Reddy

At Emory Libraries, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make sure you have access to the academic books you need for your research, teaching, and learning. Now that the winter holiday break is near, we want to ensure you have some leisure material to enjoy. To relax, we are reading, viewing, and listening Read More …

Emory’s Rose Library partners with Atlanta airport for EarWax Records hip hop exhibit

Posted onAuthorMaureen McGavin

For the first time, items from Emory’s Rose Library will be on exhibit at the world’s busiest airport, where millions of travelers coming through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta international can take a break and explore materials on the history of hip hop in Atlanta and its torchbearer, EarWax Records. “Beyond the 50: Continuing Hip Hop’s Legacy in Read More …