Rose Library to create virtual reading room to expand access to collections
The Rose Library announced it received a Mellon Foundation planning grant to create a virtual reading room to expand access to its collections. For this pilot project, the Rose will partner with the National Library of Ireland and the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast to focus on sharing the Rose’s Irish literature collections, which include such notable Irish writers as Seamus Heaney, Bram Stoker, W.B. Yeats, Rita Ann Higgins, Paul Muldoon, and others.
The project will result in increased access to these rare materials for scholars unable to travel to the Rose Library in person due to financial or time constraints – access that will particularly benefit international researchers.
Science Gallery Atlanta takes a trip through hip hop history
If you haven’t had a chance to visit “You Don’t Got Dis!?! A Hip Hop Legacy,” don’t miss out on the chance to see this amazing exhibit before it closes on Dec. 3. On display at Science Gallery Atlanta and co-sponsored by Emory University, it celebrates hip hop culture in Atlanta and the legacy of EarWax Records, the first Atlanta retailer to carry an extensive selection of hip-hop music.
The exhibit features never before seen photographs and flyers from concerts and events, rare mixtapes, cassette and vinyl installments, magazine collections, and a graffiti exhibit.
Read the recent AJC article about the exhibit here (subscription required).
The exhibit is open to the public at no charge, but make sure you register for the date you want to visit at the link below.
Thanks to everyone who came out on Nov. 2 to the opening event for our new exhibition, “At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker,” at Emory’s Woodruff Library and the preceding conversation with the five curators in the Rose Library.
If you missed the conversation, the video is linked below. The curators shared the stories of their research and the discoveries made during the process, their intertwining work as they mapped out the exhibition, and how they brought their scholarship together with the exhibitions team. The exhibition will run in the Schatten Gallery through May 18, 2024. (Check visitor hours and holiday closures here.)
Since the launch of Emory Digital Collections in 2020, thousands of items from Emory’s rare and unique holdings have been uploaded to the platform. Each month, staff members in Library Technology and Digital Strategies provide an update, sharing what has been added to EDC during the preceding month.
October's additions included nine 16th- to 18th-century emblem books, 18 books to the African American Imprints collection, four 16th-century texts to the Kessler Reformation collection, two books to the Views of Rome collections, and one historical medical text to the Medical Heritage Imprints Collection.
