First in a series of articles spotlighting student employees and the paths they pursued Emory Libraries, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship offer a range of interesting student jobs, including hands-on roles that build practical skills and open new career paths. In this series, we’ll highlight these roles and Read More …
To catalog is to create, manage, and keep records. Yet it is rarely considered complimentary to the intertwined work of processing archivists, subject librarians, and historians who catapult untold or insufficiently recounted histories into public consciousness. The donation of two copies of the recently published book “Driven Out – Adolf Rosenberger: Race Car Driver and Read More …
Emory Libraries provides access to the online version of the MLA Handbook from Databases@Emory. This resource, MLA Handbook Plus, includes sample citations and research papers in MLA format, quick guides to MLA Style, and a new Spanish language version of the handbook. Additionally, it contains a Student Guide to A.I. Literacy, which is also available Read More …
Emory Arts fellow Stephanie Dowda DeMer’s on-campus exhibition, Tell Us of the World, presents a view of plant life that illuminates its hidden world and engages with the long tradition of photo-scientific inquiry. Her experimental camera-less photographs created from plant fluorescence and sculptural works reflect human-ecological connection guided by the focal point of light. The Read More …
Each spring, millions around the world celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, marking the arrival of spring and a time of renewal, reflection, and community. Rooted in Zoroastrianism, Nowruz follows the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar and coincides with the spring equinox, usually between March 19–21. Though most widely celebrated in Iran, it is also observed Read More …
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 …
April is National Poetry Month, which means it’s the perfect time for the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library to host its annual Raymond Danowski Poetry Library reading with Pulitzer Prize in Poetry finalist and acclaimed author, critic, and poetry slam champion Danez Smith. Open to the public at no charge, the Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Monet Lewis-Timmons has been selected as the new curator of literary and poetry collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. She will begin her role in July. Lewis-Timmons is currently an assistant professor of history at the University of Memphis, where she teaches African American history and Read More …
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 …
