Emory Libraries appoints Elizabeth Ott as new Rose Library director
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University has named Elizabeth Ott as its associate university librarian for special collections and director of the Rose Library. She will begin her new duties on Jan. 6, 2025.
Ott is currently the Frank Borden Hanes Curator of Rare Books at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as the interim associate university librarian for special collections and director of Wilson Special Collections Library from 2022-2024. She began working at UNC at Chapel Hill in 2015 as Wilson’s assistant curator of rare books. Prior to that, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, where she earned her PhD, and as a program assistant at the university’s Rare Book School.
Kevin Young returns to Emory as guest poet for 12th Night Revel and Danowski reading
Save these two dates in March, when Kevin Young will be the special guest poet at the 12th Night Revel and Danowski series reading in March.
The 12th Night Revel, the signature annual fundraising event for the Rose Library, will be held Friday, March 21, 2025, at 6 p.m. in the Emory Conference Center Hotel’s Lullwater Ballroom. The public is invited to attend, and ticket purchase information is forthcoming.
The reading, part of the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series, will take place Saturday, March 22, 2025, at 1p.m. in Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church. The reading is open to the public at no charge, but registration is encouraged at the link below due to space limitations.
Emory Libraries is celebrating Native American Heritage Month this November by highlighting several books in our collection in this blog by Hannah Griggs, our subject librarian for English. Members of the public can search for these books at their local library or bookstore. Read the blog at the link below, where you can also use the search bar to find our previous blogs on Native American films and governmental resources.
We’re also proud to announce that we’ll have a Native American exhibition opening Jan. 27 in the Schatten Gallery. “This Land Calls Us Home” will feature the works of 25 contemporary Native American artists and designers that reflect their relationships with their ancestral homelands in the southeastern US. We’ll have more information on this exhibition in an upcoming newsletter.
