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September 2022

Welcome to Dooley Noted, the newsletter for the Oxford College Library! This newsletter provides faculty and staff with information about new resources, library events, staff profiles, and other featured items.

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In this issue:

Save the date! Book signing October 3

Please save the date for a book signing by Laila Sabreen on Monday, October 3 at 6:30pm in the library! 

Laila is a 4th year student at Emory College and her book “You Truly Assumed” was published by Inkyard Press, a young adult imprint of HarperCollins Publishers earlier in 2022.  Read more about her in this article from the Emory Report.  Look for more details about the book signing to come in EaglePost. 

Newest additions to digital collections

Since the launch of Emory Digital Collections in April 2020, thousands of items from Emory’s rare and unique holdings have been uploaded to the platform.   

Here’s what was added summer of 2022: 

 

 

Welcome, new librarians!

Ginny Hudgins recently joined the Oxford Library as a Librarian. She graduated from the Masters of Library and Information Science program at Simmons University, where she was the Dean’s Fellow for Information Technology Support and an intern at the Northeastern Law Library. She received a BA from Agnes Scott College in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Educational Studies. At Agnes Scott, Ginny interned at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Georgia and Charis Books & More. She is interested in universal design and inclusive pedagogies. Ginny loves to track her reading each year, so if you see her on campus or in a meeting, let her know how your Goodreads challenge for the year is going. 

 

Jacob Lackner joined the Oxford Library as a Teaching and Learning Librarian in August. Jacob graduated from the University of Washington’s Master of Library and Information Science program in June. He previously worked in the University of Washington Libraries and the Los Angeles Public Library, and received a BA degree in Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University. He is eager to get to know Atlanta and the Oxford community! 

Library workshops planned to help students with research process

The library is offering a variety of Fall Workshops for students starting this month.  These workshops include Library 101, which is a quick refresher for students on how to utilize library resources; Using Google in Research, which focuses on teaching students how to make the best use of Google Scholar; Intro to Zotero; and use of Google to find nontraditional and specialized resources. See this list with the full schedule.  

Please let your students know about these opportunities.  Faculty interested in offering attendance at these workshops as an extra credit opportunity should contact their REP librarian contact 

Oxford Library recommendations  

Find out what the Oxford Library Staff recommends you check out from the library!

This list gives you the inside scoop on everything from the best chairs in the library to the most interesting reads. 

New & trial databases

African Diaspora
New
The contributions, struggles, and identities of those who lived the African Diaspora come to life through personal accounts, video, and primary sources in this global black studies collection that focuses on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of people of African descent. The collection includes never-before digitized primary source documents, including books, government documents, personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera from the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France.

Counseling & Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume I
New
Volume I lays an important foundation for clinical work with clients by providing 2,000 real-life, fully anonymized transcripts alongside an extensive selection of primary accounts, handbooks, and reference works. Included are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of the sessions themselves. More than 25,000 pages of reference material round out this volume, complementing and contextualizing the primary sources. Content includes encyclopedic entries, textbook case studies, and how-to material from leading professionals in the field.

Native American Tribal Histories 
New
Records of Bureau of Indian Affairs Superintendents, 1813-1880.

North American Indian Thought and Culture
New
North American Indian Thought and Culture brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files for the first time.

Access all Emory databases

Contact your librarian

At Oxford, each department is assigned a librarian in the Research Engagement Program (REP). To schedule library instruction, get help with scholarly research, or answer any library services questions contact your REP departmental librarian. The REP was formerly the Personal Librarian Program and we've reorganized to better serve the needs of faculty and students. 

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