Two female Irish poets, Rita Ann Higgins and Sinéad Morrissey, will read their work in late March and early April in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. The readings, free and open to the public, celebrate Women’s History Month in March and National Poetry Month in April. Rita Read More …
Edit Wikipedia for the greater good! For the third year in a row, Emory University Libraries will host a local event for the Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Art + Feminism is a worldwide campaign to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia and to empower new editors. The event is co-sponsored by Read More …
SPANISH LITERATURE CLASS IN WOODRUFF LIBRARY SPRING SEMESTER 2018 Fernando Valverde, a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, is teaching a class using the Spanish language literature collection found on the 5th floor of Robert W. Woodruff Library. The class spends one session each week working in the book stacks and students Read More …
Emory University’s Woodruff Library has been able to purchase, with general allocations and endowed funds, a number of new important primary source collections to assist in research and teaching across disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. News Policy and Politics Magazine Archive is notable for its archive of Newsweek from 1933-2012. Women’s Magazine Archive Read More …
On November 3, 2017, Emory Libraries hosted the HathiTrust Research Center Digging Deeper, Reaching Further workshop. Thirty-four librarians from across the southeast attended this train-the-trainer workshop on text mining. The workshop covered text analysis, distant reading, and non-consumptive research in five interactive modules taught over the course of six hours. The HTRC workshop focused on Read More …
The Laney Graduate School and several Emory partner entities offer fellowships to advanced graduate students. (See all fellowships at http://www.gs.emory.edu/professional-development/fellowships/advanced.html ) Emory Libraries and ECDS are offering five fellowships for 2018-19 Deadline: February 9, 2018 by 4pm Data Services Fellowship (Emory Libraries/ECDS) Digital Humanities Fellowship (Emory Libraries/ECDS) Outreach and Education Fellowship (Emory Libraries/ECDS) Rose Library Read More …
Are you about to defend your prospectus and start researching your dissertation? Are you in the middle of writing that honors thesis? Are you gearing up to submit your masters thesis this semester? The Scholarly Communications Office is ready to help! We are offering three workshops this spring for any student writing or finishing up Read More …
HathiTrust Digital Library deposited its 16th million volume, Osborne’s London and Birmingham Railway guide. Illustrated, on December 7, 2017. This marked a nine-year effort on behalf of research institutions and libraries including Emory who joined the partnership in 2010. Well done HathiTrust, Emory, and fellow HathiTrust partners! Most Popular HathiTrust Books from Emory for 2017 Usage Read More …
The You Spoke/We Listened campaign continues in January with a focus on Emory’s streaming video options. One of the themes that emerged from our survey was a desire for “more films available for online streaming.” Currently, the library provides access to over 25,000 streaming videos, most of which are searchable in discoverE. They include a Read More …
Are your students’ research skills up to snuff? Do their citations measure up? If you feel your students’ research skills could use an upgrade, the Library can help! The librarians at Woodruff provide a variety of instructional services for your classes that can sharpen your students’ information literacy abilities and practices. We can create research guides for your classes Read More …
This is the final post in a series of interviews conducted by the Woodruff Library with the 2017-2018 Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows. Funded by the Laney Graduate School, the Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) awards fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their dissertations Read More …
Jack Scott, an IT Desktop Consultant for Emory’s Libraries and Information Technology(LITS), has a unique skill for creating art using old computer parts. While some people see piles of dusty junk, Jack sees an opportunity to create something interesting. As a high school student, Jack had interests in construction, then graduated from Emory with a Read More …
