Library Blog

The Writers exhibition, on display in the Schatten Gallery until November, features photographer Nancy Crampton’s pictures of authors,poets, novelists, journalists and other writers. A small selection of MARBL materials, chosen by guest curators from the Emory community, complements each photo. The materials illuminate the connections the writers have with each other and the special collections in MARBL. The guest curators were asked to write an essay explaining how their own research has been influenced by using primary source materials, and we will be featuring them here once a week. The following essay is by Jake Adam York about W.H. Auden.

by Mashadi Matabane, Graduate Student in the Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University, and Graduate Assistant to Randall Burkett, Curator of African American Collections in MARBL

Dr. John Thomas Biggers (1924-2001) was a versatile American artist and art educator whose particular mix of murals and drawings made artistic appeals and references to identity, community, and Africa throughout a long career beginning in the 1940s. MARBL's acquisition of the John Biggers Papers, 1950-2001 contains a multitude of materials that demonstrate how the working life of one man ultimately created a masterful life's work.

The Writers exhibition, on display in the Schatten Gallery until November, features photographer Nancy Crampton’s pictures of authors,poets, novelists, journalists and other writers. A small selection of MARBL materials, chosen by guest curators from the Emory community, complements each photo. The materials illuminate the connections the writers have with each other and the special collections in MARBL. The guest curators were asked to write an essay explaining how their own research has been influenced by using primary source materials, and we will be featuring them here once a week. The following essay is by Lawrence P. Jackson about Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Gwendolyn Brooks.

Project Overview

Book movers will shift the Woodruff stack tower to distribute collections and allow for growth room is appropriate areas.  Locations of call numbers will change.  When the project is complete signs will be changed as needed.

by David Faulds, Rare Book Librarian, dfaulds@emory.edu

Last month I was fortunate to attend the preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section  of the American Library Association where I attended a fascinating talk by Carolee Campbell, sole proprietor of Ninja Press, a fine press based in Sherman Oaks, California. The press has been in existence since 1984 producing hand-made books and broadsides. MARBL has a complete collection of books produced by the press and is in good company, as other institutions with complete collections include the British Library, the Library of Congress, Columbia University and Stanford University.

The Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) is pleased to announce the selection of three new projects, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, that will be the focus of our work during the 2012-2013 academic year. The projects will be closely connected with the Library, its collections at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), and its staff as a whole.

by Sara Logue, Research and Public Services Archivist, MARBL

It was around 1862 that both sides of the War Between the States began to realize it was not going to be the short, easy skirmish everyone originally hoped it would be. It was in April of that year that Union spies led by a Kentucky civilian, James Andrews, crossed into Georgia and attempted to sever the Confederate artery of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in what came to be known as "The Great Locomotive Chase."