Artist Kosmo Vinyl will join Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, for a conversation about the intersection of punk, DIY culture, and art on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, at 7 p.m. on Level 10 of the Woodruff Library at Emory University. The event is Read More …
As an Emory University staff member for 22 years, C.J. Jones estimates he’s checked out hundreds of DVDs and CDs in the last 10 years from the Music & Media Library. Having access to free movies and TV shows has allowed him to skip the expensive cable bill and save money. “I can get caught Read More …
When it comes to buying books about another country’s literature, history, government, and other myriad aspects, there’s no better way of knowing you’re getting the best offerings than traveling right to the source. That’s what four Emory University librarians on the International Area Studies team did over the past year when they traveled to Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Read More …
Rosalyn Metz, director of Library Technology and Digital Strategies for Emory LITS (Library and Information Technology Services), has been named to a cohort of 17 top academic library managers to be Library Senior Fellows at UCLA in 2018. The cohort will participate in a three-week residential program in August that features lectures, guest speakers, case studies and Read More …
In the Teaching and Learning Studio at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, students in Sarah McPhee’s Italian Baroque Architecture class crowded around “Le Antichità Romane,” four large 18th-century volumes opened to the etchings created by artist, architect and printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi. As McPhee and graduate student Abbey Hafer gently Read More …
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University has acquired the papers of dancers, activists, and artists Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder. Emory University will award de Lavallade an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at its 2018 commencement ceremony on Monday, May 14. “This is such an amazing collection, with Read More …
by Hal Jacobs Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library has acquired the papers of Atlanta artist and photographer Jon Arge. The collection consists of photographs, artwork, event files, printed material and a journal. One of the most remarkable aspects of the collection are the more than 5,000 Polaroid photographs that document Atlanta’s Read More …
The history of the Emory University School of Medicine is on display in a new exhibit at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library. “History of Teaching Medicine at Emory” highlights significant achievements and people who have built Emory’s School of Medicine into one of the top medical schools in the Southeast. Photographs, textbooks, medical instruments, and other memorabilia Read More …
Joseph Crespino, author and Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University, will discuss his new book, “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” at a Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation on Thursday, May 3, at 4 p.m. in the Woodruff Library at Emory University. The event is open to the public at no charge. Attendees are asked to Read More …
Librarians at Emory can help students in a multitude of ways, and the subjects that they specialize in are often surprising. Lawrence Hamblin is Emory Libraries’ Japanese and Korean Studies librarian, and his East Asian expertise has enabled him to help faculty and students discover resources they would never have thought to look for. Hamblin’s Read More …
The newly created Student Production Studio, located on Level 1 of the Woodruff Library, is on-air and online, ready for reservations. The studio gives student groups and classes a place to work on video, audio and photography production projects. It provides access to high-quality production equipment, professional-grade lighting, soundproof audio recording capabilities, and even a green Read More …
For the second year, the Emory Libraries’ Science Commons in the Atwood Chemistry Center is collaborating with the Atlanta Science Festival (ASF), inviting visitors to interact with a new exhibit that features robot-themed books and a science quotes wall. The exhibit, open now through the end of March, has a display of science- related books from the Read More …
