by Maureen McGavin Comic book fans can enter into the virtual-reality streets of “Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline,” an African-American superhero comic book, at an AJC Decatur Book Festival session featuring a digital project team from the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. The Big City Maps panel will take place on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, at 12:30 p.m. at the Marriott Read More …
An exhibition of materials celebrating the contributions of the Beat writers, poets, and artists will debut next month at Emory University. “The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940–1975,” which opens Sept. 28, 2017, in the Schatten Gallery at Emory’s Woodruff Library, draws from collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Read More …
Emory Libraries and Emory University continue their sponsorship of the Decatur Book Festival, to be held Saturday, Sept. 2, and Sunday, Sept. 3, in downtown Decatur, Georgia. Emory Libraries will be joined by staff from the Emory Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Carlos Museum and the Emory Center for Ethics in the Emory tent, on East Ponce de Leon Read More …
Renovations begin on June 13 on Level 1 of Emory University’s Woodruff Library, which will be redesigned for undergraduate use. The space will be updated with new furniture and carpeting, additional seating, and more power outlets for charging portable electronic devices. Peet’s Coffee & Tea, which is closed for the summer, and the group study rooms Read More …
Riveting images of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, taken by Atlanta-area photographer Billy Howard, are the basis of an exhibit opening June 15 at Emory University’s Robert W. Woodruff Library and a conversation with Howard scheduled for June 22. “Billy Howard’s ‘Epitaphs for the Living’ ” will feature 17 photographs, each showing a Read More …
As the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta approaches, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) at Emory University will launch a self-guided mobile tour of Battle-related sites throughout the city, complete with maps, historical information, photos and videos, and even parking suggestions for those who drive the route. A launch celebration and demonstration Read More …
Pellom McDaniels III, curator of African American collections at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, has won the Center for Research Libraries 2017 Primary Source Award for Research. McDaniels received the award for “What Must Be Remembered: An Exhibition Inspired by Natasha Trethewey’s ‘Native Guard,’ ” which was based on Read More …
Two poets with Emory University connections will present a free reading and discussion on the main Emory campus on Tuesday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m. in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Richie Hofmann, who is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow at Emory, is the winner of the Ruth Lilly Read More …
Part of an occasional series of profiles on Woodruff Library librarians, a valuable resource at Emory University. Students and faculty working in women’s studies, psychology and journalism have an ally in subject librarian Jennifer Elder, who connects them with the resources and information that will make their research efforts a success. An Atlanta native, Elder Read More …
The Emory Libraries will host two events on April 5 that celebrate a century of women at the University and the challenges in women’s leadership and education going forward. “Educated=Empowered: 100 Years of Emory Women as Change-Makers” will feature a panel discussion on the ways higher education has empowered women, why women’s history and voices matter, and Read More …
Part of an occasional series of profiles on Woodruff Library librarians, a valuable resource at Emory University. Emory Libraries’ African American history collection is so vast that it can be hard to know where to begin. Luckily, Erica Bruchko, African American Studies and U.S. history librarian, is ready with guidance and recommendations for students and Read More …
U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will give a free reading at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Emory University campus at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. Tickets are not required, but seating will be limited. Books and a limited-edition broadside will be for sale at the reading, with a signing immediately Read More …
