The entire staff at the Emory Libraries wishes you a happy and healthy holiday season. We look forward to serving our patrons in the new year!
Holiday reading, watching, and listening recs from the Emory Libraries
Looking for some good recommendations for holiday reading, listening, and movie watching? In a recent blog, the Emory Libraries staff shared some suggestions for books, ebooks, and streaming music and films via the Emory Libraries (accessible with an active Emory ID) and the Fulton County Public Library (Fulco) system. And since Emory is in Atlanta, current Emory students, instructors, and staff can also sign up for a Fulco library card, regardless of their home county and use their online services as well. Enjoy the holiday bounty!
Feast of Words 2022 honors Emory faculty authors, editors
It was a happy occasion Dec. 6 at A Feast of Words, an annual celebration by the Emory Center for Faculty Development and Excellence honoring faculty authors and editors for the books they published in the prior academic year ending August 2022.
Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Ravi Bellamkonda, Vice Provost of Libraries and Museum Valeda F. Dent, and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Pearl Dowe toasted the faculty members and congratulated them on their publications.
The wonderful article linked below includes a link to the list of some 89 titles, 65 faculty authors, and 18 faculty editors or co-editors. Subject librarians who were instrumental in the research of some of the books were thanked at A Feast of Words and are also noted in the list.
Health sciences library director receives Oppenheimer award
Congratulations to Sandra Franklin, director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, who received the Gerald J. Oppenheimer Cornerstone Award for lifetime achievement from the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries. The award is given to an AAHSL member who has made a significant impact on the profession of academic health sciences librarianship and important contributions to the AAHSL mission.
Next Calliope’s Cabinet video spotlights Apollo 15 mission and flight cue cards
The eighth episode of Calliope’s Cabinet was released recently, in which Tracy L. Scott, associate professor of teaching in the Department of Sociology at Emory University, discusses the 1971 Apollo 15 mission, its flight documentation and flight cue cards.
Scott, daughter of Air Force colonel and Apollo 15 mission commander David Scott, discusses an important innovation invented by the flight crew to overcome technical limitations of the time and the “startup culture” of NASA’s early years, and shares personal anecdotes that provide insights into the lives of these great innovators.
Calliope’s Cabinet — an exploration of curious innovations through the ages — is a collaboration between The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation and Emory Libraries that highlights treasures from the various Libraries’ collections.
If you missed any of our videos or events – or you just want to see them again or share them with friends – visit our YouTube playlist and enjoy watching some special programs from 2022, from our Calliope’s Cabinet series on archive treasures in the Emory Libraries collections and Kylie Smith’s lecture on “Jim Crow in the Asylum” to the Marilyn Chin poetry reading and a conversation with actor Harry Lennix and Emory’s music professor Dwight Andrews.
