The Music & Media Library has started to circulate a small collection of four MacBook and six Dell laptops for a circulating period of seven days. This collection was created in response to requests from faculty, staff, and students, for whom the 3-hour circulating collection was not meeting their needs. Many of the faculty and staff use the computers Read More …
In an effort to help promote the Atlanta Science Festival this year, the Emory Libraries collaborated with ASF to conduct a pair of science haiku (sciku) contests in the Science Commons’ book alcove. The first contest ended Friday, March 10th, and the winner was Julia Gensheimer, a chemistry major in the class of 2019. Three Read More …
By Kristan Majors This week the 2017 Atlanta Science Festival launches here on campus with astronaut Captain Mark Kelly. In recognition of this, Emory’s librarians have compiled a list of science fiction about space travel and other worlds. Emory faculty, students, and staff can check out any of the books from the Science Commons exhibit. Read More …
Edit Wikipedia for the greater good! For the second 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 will be held as 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 Library & Information Technology Services (LITS) is offering 7 fellowships for 2017-18 Deadline: Feb 17 by 4pm Emory Libraries Alice Walker Fellowship – Guidelines Emory Libraries/ECDS Data Services Fellowship Guidelines Emory Libraries/ECDS Digital Read More …
Do you need a camera for a project and your cellphone camera just won’t do? Don’t have a laptop but need one for that upcoming conference presentation? Where can you go on campus to find these items for a short term loan? Why, you go to the Marian K. Heilbrun Music & Media Library! Read More …
Last month, I was trying to analyze books we bought in a previous year from a specific vendor. To do so, I wanted to create a script that would take a data from a spreadsheet, send a query to the Library of Congress API, and then process the response. I had never done this. I Read More …
Last year we suggested for your winter break some new books Emory’s librarians wanted to read, but this year we thought it would be fun to share what the university has been reading this year. Below is a list of Emory’s most heavily circulated American literature titles in 2016. Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Read More …
The International Area Studies librarians at Emory ‘s Woodruff Library, in collaboration with the Library’s Exhibit Team, have curated a special book display showcasing Emory faculty’s scholarly achievements in addressing global and cultural issues, as well as the challenges across different regions. The Book Display is artistically exhibited in two alcoves near the entrance to Read More …
This is the final post in a series of interviews conducted by the Woodruff Library with the 2016-2017 Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows. Funded by the Laney Graduate School School, the Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) awards fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their Read More …
This is the fifth post in a series of interviews conducted by the Woodruff Library with the 2016-2017 Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellows. Funded by the Laney Graduate School School, the Woodruff Library and Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) awards fellowships to advanced graduate students expecting to complete their Read More …
Emory’s Woodruff Library is happy to celebrate International Education Week (Nov 14-18, 2016) Did you know that Emory Libraries has over 50 foreign language and/or international studies databases? Chinese Academic Journals (CAJ) Japan Knowledge Bibliography of Asian Studies emorylib.info/databases posted by Kim Collins on 11/18/2016
