American music history has largely ignored or disregarded the contributions of African Americans. Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library contains over 30 archival collections of various sizes that both uncover and recover the critical role African Americans played in the music culture of the United States. A new exhibit, “Highlights Read More …
October has always heralded celebration in Atlanta, with the crisp autumnal air signaling the start of the city’s many neighborhood festivals. One key October celebration that we take note of at Emory Libraries is LGBTQ+ History Month, which acknowledges the history making contributions of LGBTQ+ people in our society. Started by Missouri high school teacher Read More …
Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will open a major exhibition in October that will bring together, for the first time, the lives and work of three Georgia-born artists – painter/illustrator Benny Andrews and writers Flannery O’Connor and Alice Walker. “At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor and Alice Read More …
Similar to the way museums are required to preserve works of art and sculpture, libraries are facing increasing challenges with physical collection media. Despite the best preventive storage practices, paper deteriorates, photographs fade, and audio and visual media degrade and lose fidelity over time. Like museums, libraries are stewards of information as well as hubs Read More …
April is National Poetry Month! Emory is home to the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, which houses a collection of over 75,000 volumes of rare and first editions of modern and contemporary poetry. Within the Danowski collection are issues of Beatitude, a Beatnik-era “little” magazine first published in 1959. The magazine featured a number of works Read More …
Event postponed UPDATE: In response to feedback, the “Documenting Health Crises: Oral Histories of Covid and Ebola” event will not be held on the Emory campus on Tuesday, April 18, at 4 p.m. as scheduled. The program will instead be virtual, so that international audiences may participate. Stay tuned for the new date and time Read More …
Clinton Fluker, curator of African American collections in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, has been appointed Emory University Libraries and Museum’s inaugural senior director of culture, community, and partner engagement for the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Emory Libraries effective June 1, 2023. Valeda F. Dent, Emory’s vice provost of libraries Read More …
Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (Rose Library) is partnering with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) for the upcoming ASO concert series featuring Conrad Tao on February 23 and 24 at the Woodruff Arts Center. The concert features Alabama composer William Levi Dawson’s “Negro Folk Symphony” (1934, revised ca. 1952). Rose Read More …
Ada Limón, the current US poet laureate, will give a public reading at Emory University on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023, at 3 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium. Books will be for sale at the reading, with a signing immediately following the event. Attendees can register for the reading, which is open to the public at no Read More …
Grab some popcorn for Emory University’s second annual Home Movie Day on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 3 p.m., hosted by Emory Libraries Preservation Office. This online event is an opportunity to explore interesting films from Emory University’s collections, consider film as a window into community history, and learn about the work of film preservation. The program Read More …
Georgia Historical Society markers will be unveiled on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, at the sites of two pioneering public housing developments that first opened in the 1930s. The ceremonies are open to the public. The first, at 1 p.m., will take place at the Techwood Homes cupola building at the intersection of Centennial Olympic Park Read More …
This fall 2022 semester, the Rose and Woodruff libraries are offering several notable new collections for your research and teaching needs. General Collections All resources are available through Databases@Emory and/or in Library Search. Reminder to reach out to your subject librarian and/or make a request via the purchase request page. You can also use Library Read More …
