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Start your semester right with this new workshop at the Woodruff Library on January 20, 2011:

Digital Scholarship and the Job Market: A Discussion for Grad Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences

12:00–1:00 p.m., Jones Room, Woodruff Library
Lunch provided
Space is limited, so register now at http://bit.ly/dsjobmarket
Sponsors: Emory University Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons and the Laney Graduate School

We'll be joined by:

We're happy to introduce a new, enhanced EUCLID. Our recent upgrade to the library's catalog not only increases EUCLID’s search speed and capabilities, but also prepares the way for future enhancements.

By Courtney Chartier, Assistant Head, Archives Research Center, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

"Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden collections documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and New Orleans. The project is administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each organization regularly contributes blog posts about their progress.

In 1975 the Voter Education Project (VEP) embarked on one of its most ambitious voter education and registration campaigns: Project Georgia 23.

Project Georgia 23 was a “voter education, registration and leadership training program. It [was] designed to increase minority political participation in the Georgia counties with a Black majority population.” The project targeted 23 counties in Georgia.

Based on materials from the Tudor, Stuart, Caroline, Commonwealth, and Restoration periods, Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript.  The texts of word entries tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period covered by the Short-title and Wing catalogues.  Their lexical insights sh