This fall, the conservation team will offer another opportunity in our series of free, drop-in workshops. These informal workshops offer a chance for spontaneous creativity in the context of learning about serious conservation research on materials and techniques of historical book bindings. In 2023, summer conservation intern Devon Blankenbaker led a workshop on paper marbling. Read More …
Welcome to fall semester 2025! Whether you’re a new or returning student, you’ll find that all of the Emory Libraries are ready to help you with study and research needs. We encourage you to explore our website, where you’ll find information on our subject librarians, study spaces, tech help, databases, and so much more. If Read More …
I had the pleasure of being the first media preservation intern at Emory Libraries this summer. The media preservation department is split into the audiovisual labs, the 2D and 3D still imaging labs, and the metadata services team. This department, as a whole, works together to digitally capture the information found in different media formats, Read More …
Thousands of iconic images of African American authors, athletes, artists and activists will soon be easier to access and explore, thanks to a three-year grant from the Getty Foundation for Black Visual Arts Archives. The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University recently received the $280,000 grant to process the Read More …
This summer, I had the extraordinary privilege of interning with Emory University’s Woodruff Library Resource Description team. As an undergraduate entering my final year and planning to pursue an MLIS, this experience offered me hands-on insight into the world of cataloging. Now, it could be assumed that I’d be working on standard materials like course Read More …
This summer, I had the opportunity to work in Woodruff Library as a collections intern. During this internship, among other tasks, I curated an exhibit based on the Children’s Reading Program at Emory University. The exhibit will run from July through September 2025. This experience allowed me to see how different exhibits are planned and Read More …
Amanda J. Wilson has been selected as Emory University’s next associate university librarian and director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, starting Aug. 25. Wilson joins Emory Libraries from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), where she served as the deputy director of the User Services and Collection Division. She has worked at NLM Read More …
Books often contain some amount and variety of adhesive in their original structure. Conservation treatment of Emory Libraries’ special collections, archives, and circulating books, whether ancient or hot off the press, begins with an assessment of original structure, current condition, and identification of the best treatment protocol. Our conservation staff has a broad knowledge of Read More …
Juneteenth is a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, this holiday on June 19th marks a second American Independence Day, when enslaved men and women first learned of their freedom. Over the past 150 years, African American communities Read More …
Emory Libraries is happy to announce that we have negotiated a three-year subscription to Dewey Data, a new data service tailored to academic libraries. Emory joins several other universities with enterprise access, including NYU, MIT, University of Chicago, Yale and UPenn. Dewey has worked extensively with large commercial data providers to make their respective content Read More …
Many times over the last 12 years, a visitor brought a special item to the class of Robert Gaynes, professor emeritus of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. The visitor usually was Sandra Franklin, director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library. The item? Emory’s first edition of the 1543 book, “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” Read More …
In celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Emory Libraries is proud to highlight 10 powerful and poignant books published within the past year that explore queer lives, histories, and futures. These titles – now available in our collections – span genres and geographies, offering fresh perspectives on identity, love, resistance, and community. Whether you’re looking for Read More …
