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Wishing everyone a safe and relaxing July 4 holiday tomorrow! Many of our Libraries will close early today (Woodruff Library closes at 6 pm today) and all Emory Libraries will be closed on July 4; see our hours page for details at https://libraries.emory.edu/hours
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We’re thrilled to share the news that the Sounding Spirit Collaborative, led by Emory Center for Digital Scholarship's Jesse Karlsberg, has won its fourth grant to begin a massive indexing project of all the sacred songbooks digitized by Sounding Spirit team at ECDS. Read more about how researchers – and choral directors – will be able to use this remarkable library and the crossover effect of these hymns.
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2024/06/er_sounding_spirit_neh_grant_18-06-2024/story.html

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Sounding Spirit Collaborative receives $350,000 NEH grant to create new index of historical hymns | Emory University | Atlanta GA The Sounding Spirit Collaborative, a multi-institution project led by Emory, has received a grant to create the Hymnody Index, which will make thousands of digitized sacred hymns and their various arrangements findable for researchers, choral directors and the public.

Feeling deep appreciation for all military personnel who gave their lives in service to our country this Memorial Day. All Emory Libraries will be closed Sun & Mon in observance. You can still access our online resources at https://libraries.emory.edu/.
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May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and we’re celebrating with a look at some of the best fiction and nonfiction books, films, and cookbooks (even a graphic-novel type cookbook!) Although the links provided are for those in the Emory community with an active ID, members of the public can search for these materials (even streaming films!) at your local library.
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/news/celebrating-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month
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Dr. Pellom McDaniels III was a renowned athlete, a scholar, author, poet, professor and the curator of the African American collections at Emory’s Rose Library before he passed away in April 2020. Among all these talents and pursuits, he was also an artist.

Now his artwork will be exhibited at the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta (ADAMA). This exhibition, “A Shield Against Darkness: The Art and Scholarship of Pellom McDaniels III,” focuses on McDaniels as an artist and showcases work he produced over decades. The pieces featured grapple with themes of memory, race, US neocolonialism, and spirituality. The exhibit was curated by Dr. Clint Fluker, senior director of culture, community and partner engagement for the Carlos Museum and Emory Libraries; and Dr. Fahamu Pecou, artist and ADAMA founder.

Exhibit opening:
Friday, May 10, 7-9 p.m. (exhibit runs through June 28, 2024)
Location: ADAMA, inside the Nia Building at Pittsburgh Yards, 352 University Ave, Atlanta GA 30310

Conversation with Navvab McDaniels, moderated by exhibit co-curator Dr. Clint Fluker
Sunday, May 12, 3-4 p.m.
Location: ADAMA, inside the Nia Building at Pittsburgh Yards, 352 University Ave, Atlanta GA 30310

We invite you to join us for these events! Follow this link for more info and to register:
https://adamatl.org/pellomexhibit
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End of semester hours are changing for the Robert W. Woodruff Library building. We will be open 7:30 a.m. – 11 p.m. Tuesday, April 30 – Wednesday, May 8 to those with a valid Emory ID.

The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will maintain normal hours of operation. For hours for our other libraries and for more information, visit https://libraries.emory.edu/hours.

🐾 Emory students, need a break? Join us on Tues, Apr. 30 between 11 am – 5 pm in the Jones Room for some furry therapy at the Emory Libraries PAWS & RELAX Therapy Pets Study Break 🐶🐱 Get ready to de-stress with some adorable dogs and a sweet kitty 🐾✨

Sign up for a time slot by visiting the link in our bio or by copy and pasting:
http://bit.ly/pawsrelax
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Updated hours:

The Robert W. Woodruff Library building, which includes the Goizueta Business Library, will be open 9 am-7 pm Friday, April 26 through Monday, April 29.

We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Emory's libraries are currently open only to those with a valid Emory ID.

Any other changes to normal operations will be communicated on Monday, April 29; check our website for details.

For a complete list of hours at all Emory Libraries, click the link in our bio, or copy/paste:
https://emorylib.info/hours
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We’re happy to announce that Gabrielle M. Dudley and Carrie Hintz (left to right, below) have been named interim co-directors of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library! Hintz is also the associate director of the Rose Library, and Dudley serves as its assistant director for public services, positions they will maintain.

Dudley, who joined the staff in 2012, and Hintz, who started in 2015, have held various positions in the Rose Library and know the collections well. They have combined experience in processing, collection management, research services, and archival instruction. They are taking over for Jennifer King, who left recently to become the associate university librarian for Special Collections with Boston University Libraries.
https://news.emory.edu/stories/2024/03/er_rose_library_leadership_28-03-2024/story.html

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There’s still time – you can make a donation to Emory Libraries on Emory’s Day of Giving TODAY until 6 p.m.! Help us in our mission to support student flourishing and give faculty the resources to help their classes achieve their goals. Choose from 4 funds, whatever inspires you!

Students can take part too! No donation is too small – even $5 or $10 helps.

You can support Emory Libraries in four ways:
*University Fund for Excellence – for the general Libraries fund
*Rose Library African American collections fund
*MARBL (Rose Library) Fund for Excellence/Linda Matthews Fund for Special Collections
*Medical Library Fund (Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library)

And … there will be special match challenges on your donations. Contributions to both the University Libraries Fund for Excellence and the African American Collections Fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $2,500 and $2,000 respectively. These matches are thanks to the generosity of Ginger Smith and Randall and Nancy Burkett.

You can learn more and donate here: https://dayofgiving.emory.edu/giving-day/82094/department/88059

Thank you for your generosity!


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Emory’s Day of Giving is in full swing! It’s a 36-hour online giving event celebrating everything Emory and offering easy ways to support what inspires you. The event is running all day today (Wed. March 27) and continues through 6 p.m. ET Thursday, March 28.

Help Emory Libraries in our mission to support student flourishing and give faculty the resources to help their classes achieve their goals.

You can support Emory Libraries in four ways:
*University Fund for Excellence – for the general Libraries fund
*Rose Library African American collections fund
*MARBL (Rose Library) Fund for Excellence/Linda Matthews Fund for Special Collections
*Medical Library Fund (Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library)

During the event, there will be special match challenges on your donations. Contributions to both the University Libraries Fund for Excellence and the African American Collections Fund will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $2,500 and $2,000 respectively. These matches are thanks to the generosity of Ginger Smith and Randall and Nancy Burkett.

You can learn more and donate here: https://dayofgiving.emory.edu/giving-day/82094/department/88059

Thank you for your generosity!


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UPDATE Correction on air date: In honor of Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor's birthday on March 25 (she would have been 99 years old!), Gabrielle Dudley and O'Connor scholar Rosemary Magee, two curators of "At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Walker," will be featured guests on WABE's "City Lights with Lois Reitzes." (The interview is scheduled as the first one in the show!)

The show will air TODAY, Monday, March 25, at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. on WABE 90.1 FM or listen live online at https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/city-lights/

Listen in and learn more about the “Crossroads” exhibition! (If you miss it, the show will be posted on this same page in the archive section later this week.)

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Listen in on Wednesday, Feb. 28!

Emory Professor Geraldine Higgins will be on WABE's City Lights with Lois Reitzes this Wednesday to talk about the upcoming Ellmann Lectures! Tune in at 11:15am or 8:15 pm to hear about the upcoming lecture series that celebrates modern literature, critical inquiry, and humanistic scholarship.

Listen here on Wednesday, Feb. 28th: https://buff.ly/4bPZTjH

Atlanta, join us for a free reading and book signing by award-winning poet Major Jackson this Sunday, Feb. 18, at 3 pm in Emory's Schwartz Center, 1700 N. Decatur Rd. (Atlanta 30322). Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including his latest, "Razzle Dazzle," Books will be for sale at the reading. Free parking too! Register here: https://tickets.arts.emory.edu/majorjackson

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Today Emory Libraries participated in the national transcribe-a-thon, with the help of Emory students and staff! They transcribed speeches and letters by abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass.

Happy Douglass Day & Black History Month! Today, the Emory Libraries joined the Colored Conventions Project in the national celebration of Frederick Douglass Day. The event brought together thousands of people from across the United States…

Join us for Major Jackson's poetry reading at Emory University this Sunday, Feb. 18, at 3 pm at the Schwartz Center. It's FREE and open to the public! You can share our Facebook event with friends and family, but make sure you all register at https://tickets.arts.emory.edu/majorjackson.

While you're waiting for Sunday, enjoy this interview in ARTSATL.org with the award-winning poet himself!

https://www.artsatl.org/qa-poet-major-jackson-talks-about-his-new-book-and-how-poetry-lit-up-his-soul/

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Q&A: Poet Major Jackson talks about his new book and how poetry lit up his soul - ARTS ATL Poet Major Jackson believes poetry is for everyone. Shannon Marie Tovey talks with him about his new book and his upcoming event at Emory.

Perhaps most well known from the iconic raised-fist image of the medal ceremony during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Dr. John Carlos (below, on the right) is a renowned athlete and activist who committed much of his life to various human rights and global social justice efforts. Dr. Carlos will be in conversation with Dr. Carl Suddler (Emory Department of History) on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. This free event will be held in the Jones Room on the third floor of Woodruff Library. The program is scheduled for 75 minutes, which includes time for an audience Q&A. Don't miss the opportunity to delve into the amazing journey of an icon who has left an indelible mark on society! The Rose Library is a co-sponsor of this event. Please register for your spot here:
http://bit.ly/2024PellomSportsHistoryProgram
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Catch Gabrielle Dudley and Nagueyalti Warren, curators of the Alice Walker portion of our “At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O'Connor, and Alice Walker” (exhibit info: https://bit.ly/crossroads-exhibition), talking about this fascinating exhibition on Atlanta News First 46 TODAY (Feb. 8) at 4:45 p.m. Watch the story here, then come see the exhibition!
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/02/07/limited-time-exhibit-emory-university-pays-tribute-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-alice-walker/
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Emory University exhibit pays tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker Walker is the Pulitzer Prize award-winning author of “The Color Purple,” a novel that follows a young Black girl from rural Georgia in the early 1900s.

Come visit "At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O'Connor and Alice Walker" in the Schatten Gallery at Emory's Woodruff Library!

Emory students, faculty and staff: Did you know ’s Woodruff Library has a lot of books and films about Martin Luther King Jr? From biographies and autobiographies to documentaries and award-winning films, you can check these out and learn more about King and his legacy. Details: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/news/celebrating-martin-luther-king-jr
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Today is the National Day of Racial Healing. Want to take part? Join Emory’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion today at noon for the free livestream of “National Day of Racial Healing: The Journey to Healing for One Emory” with keynote speaker Tia Brown McNair. McNair is a vice president in the Office of Diversity, Equity and Student Success and executive director for the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.
https://emory.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_abB5w2QIRx6iw8hWQfFM-Q #/registration

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Emory Libraries will be closed Monday, Jan. 15, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But we’re always open online at libraries.emory.edu.
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On Jan. 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 entered the public domain in the United States, along with sound recordings from 1923. Works in the public domain are free for all to copy, share, and build upon.

Among this year’s highlights are works that showcase cultural struggles of the early 20th century, many of which seem decidedly relevant today: there are books that were banned for obscenity (“Lady Chatterley’s Lover”), a critique of the inhumanity of capitalist society (“The Threepenny Opera”), a feminist classic exploring gender fluidity and sexuality (Virginia Woolf’s “Orlando”), and the first novel by a Black author to reach the New York Times bestseller list (Claude McKay’s “Home to Harlem”).

Films that entered the public domain this month include some of the last silent pictures as well as the first “all-talking” picture. Perhaps the most anticipated entry into the public domain is Walt Disney’s short animated film “Steamboat Willie,” featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

For more details, read our annual post by John Morgenstern of our Scholarly Communications Office, adapted and customized from the blog by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University School of Law. (Image: portion of “Public Domain Day 2024 Montage” by Jennifer Jenkins, CC by 4.0)

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/news/works-from-1928-enter-the-us-public-domain
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Learn about how we’re photographing Michael C. Carlos Museum's Greek and Roman gem collection in our recent blog post by Paige Knight, Ruth Allen and Kim Norman https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/news/photographing-carlos-museum-greek-roman-gems-collection


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Photographing the Carlos Museum Greek and Roman Gems Collection In 2022, Making an Impression: The Art and Craft of Ancient Engraved Gemstones was the first exhibition of ancient gems in the southeastern United States. Organized by curator of Greek and Roman Ar…

The staff of all the Emory Libraries wishes you a holiday season of peace and love. Our libraries will be closed starting Friday, Dec. 22 and reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 2. But we're always open online at libraries.emory.edu. See you in the new year! (Photo: Pitts Theology Library book tree in a previous year.) Check specific locations here: https://libraries.emory.edu/hours
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Holiday leisure reading (and watching and listening) is back! Whether you’re traveling or stay-cationing this holiday season, take a look at the recommendations from the Emory Libraries staff and get ready to download with your Emory ID! (Please note the Libraries will be closed this Friday, Dec. 22 - Jan. 1 for the holiday break, so if you want to get a physical copy recommendation, come in before closing on Thursday!)

If you’re not a current Emory student or faculty/staff member, no worries – you can check for these titles at your local library.
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/news/holiday-reading-viewing-listening-2023
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Emory University is honored to receive an ORCID US Community Award for Outstanding Outreach Effort for our campaign last fall that encouraged Emory researchers to sign up for an ORCID ID. Emory's promotional efforts, led by Jody Bailey of the Scholarly Communications Office, entailed collaboration among Emory Libraries, the Provost’s Office, Office of Information Technology, Research Administration, and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.

The team created faculty testimonial videos, flyers, digital signage, postcards, and other assets distributed across campus, and worked with university publications to highlight ORCID in various newsletters.

Read the announcement:
https://orcidus.lyrasis.org/orcid-community-awards/

Faculty: Want to sign up for an ORCID ID so your research and publications will always be connected directly to you (and not someone with a similar name), whether your name, institution, or anything else about you changes? Visit this guide to register and get started, watch video testimonials from your colleagues, or find more information:
https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/orcid
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You spoke & we listened! Based on student & faculty response to our most recent survey, we've been making improvements to our services & resources to help you flourish, assist you with finals prep & usher in spring semester.
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Emory's Woodruff Library Building will be closed Tuesday, Nov. 28, from 3 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for First Lady Rosalynn Carter’s memorial hosted on the Emory University campus. Online library services remain available at: https://libraries.emory.edu/

Rosalynn Carter was not only a friend of Emory’s, but a trailblazer in mental health awareness, housing, and women’s rights. We mourn the loss of this incredible leader.

Image: Charles M. Rafshoon photograph collection, Rose Library at Emory University.
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Emory’s Woodruff Library will be closed Thursday and Friday in observance of Thanksgiving, and we close early today at 6 p.m. We wish you a relaxing and peaceful holiday break! To find out hours for our other libraries, click http://emorylib.info/fall2023hours.
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