News Release

Emory Libraries has hired Pat Hawthorne as its director of organizational development and human resources.

Hawthorne will design and lead an organizational development program that will enable the Emory Libraries to fulfill its visionary strategic direction.

Thurs. Feb. 23 @ 4 pm/Jones Room: The Atlanta community will have a chance to view a documentary on the life of writer Raymond Andrews and hear from the filmmaker and a history department faculty member who has done research on the Andrews family.

Fri. March 2, 11 am to noon/Research Commons: Please join us for an informal conversation with University Distinguished Professor Salman Rushdie and Erika Farr, digital archives coordinator in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL).

Take a peek into the love letters of famous literary couples – and former Emory students – in the exhibition “With Love,” on view through March 8, 2012 in the Concourse Gallery on Level 2 of the Woodruff Library.

In response to student requests, the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University will extend its hours for Levels 1 through 3 on Friday and Saturday until midnight, starting Feb. 3. Previously those library levels closed at 8 pm.

The extended hours apply to the use of the space and computers, but not to the service desk, said library security team leader Terence Jefferson.

Attention students and faculty members! Woodruff Library is again sponsoring an award for undergraduate research. A panel of faculty and librarians will award up to three prizes of $500 each to those undergraduate students who 1) make extensive use of the Emory Libraries' collections and research resources in their original scholarship; and 2) show evidence of critical analysis in their research skills (i.e., locating, selecting, evaluating, and synthesizing information). At least one prize will go to a first-year student.

Wed. Feb. 1 @ 6 pm/Jones Room: The Research Commons in the Robert W. Woodruff Library will celebrate its grand opening next month with a talk by University of Richmond President Edward L. Ayers, a noted American South historian and digital scholarship pioneer who founded his university’s Digital Scholarship Lab.

Ayers will speak at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 in the Jones Room, on the third floor of the library. The talk will be followed by a reception in the Research Commons, also on the third floor. Both events are free and open to the public.