"I never knew what I was doing. I just knew I had to do it. I wanted people to look their best and relay what was going on in the room." - Jon Arge

One way to understand a city is through the lives of its residents, the lives of locals like Jon Arge and Alli Royce Soble. These Atlanta artists and photographers carried their cameras everywhere they went. Day after day, week after week, month after month, they photographed their friends, family, places, events, and happenings. Over time these photos took on additional significance and weight; they became documentation of communities in Queer Atlanta. These collections illustrate how the Rose Library’s holdings can reflect your life, your friends, your family, and your community.

View the "Our Archives Could Be Your Life" online exhibit!

"Explore the meanings associated with Shakespeare's provocative representation of race and racism."

One of Shakespeare's most important works, Othello provides commentary on the “rise of colonialism and imperialism,” as well as the ongoing struggle to define the qualities related to quintessential manhood and masculinity.

Through the archival materials found in the Stuart A. Rose Library, this exhibition will explore the development of the play as a vehicle for African American actors such as Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson, and Laurence Fishburne to claim the role of the “Black Moor” from white men in black face. Through the exhibition and programming, we will explore the complexity of being a black man in a white world, and the meanings associated with Shakespeare's provocative representation of race and racism.

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

"Open access is the free, immediate, online availability of scholarship."

With the rise of open access initiatives around the globe, academics and university presses are exploring what it means to make a book open access while also ensuring that the book still serves its intended purpose. Ideally, Open Access includes some rights that allow others to reuse the scholarship at least for noncommercial educational purposes.

Over the last twenty years, open access publishing in the scientific disciplines is commonplace. Yet the practices for open access publishing in the humanities are still developing.

Monographs, or academic books that present a sustained argument on a research question, have long served as the foundation of academic publishing in the humanities. Traditionally published as print books by university presses, monographs are often expensive to produce and to buy.

Publishing open access books yields a variety of benefits for both the reader and the author. This exhibit explores those benefits as well as the tensions that exist between open access and traditional publishing.

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

The Battle of Atlanta (July 22, 1864) figured prominently in the Union’s conquest of the Confederacy during the final year of the American Civil War and in Abraham Lincoln’s re-election to the US presidency. This exhibit describes the two-year project to create a mobile tour for exploring the physical traces of the battlefield, remnants of a Civil War fort and rifle pit, and monuments to fallen generals on opposing sides.

This web-based mobile application combines a narrative of events by Battle of Atlanta researcher and tour leader Daniel A. Pollock with maps, video clips, and images into a handheld resource directing visitors to 12 tour stops. The project team of more than 30 individuals from the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) and the Robert W. Woodruff Library worked to create the tour app and its accompanying resources.

The mobile tour is accessible via a weblink, BattleAtl.org.

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

The Latino Youth Leadership Conference brings together Latinx high school students in Nevada for six days of leadership training and development.

Students are housed in the dorms of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. During their stay, participants interact with a variety of topics and explore cultural identity.

High School students between the ages of 16 and 18 are encouraged to apply. Participants are selected from all socio-economic backgrounds, academic standings, and from all over the state of Nevada.

Participants attend the LYLC at NO cost to the student or their families. All accommodations and materials are provided.

"This could be an art project that would be a symbolic celebration of Rose's transformation." - Julie Newton

“It’s in the Cards: An Interactive Art Exhibit” features old library catalog cards that have been turned into art and poetry. The exhibit is curated by artist and Emory Libraries conservator Julie Newton, who was approached by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library staff about making use of old catalog cards. Newton wants the exhibit to be composed of catalog cards that have been “transformed” by students, staff and faculty at Emory, as well as members of the Atlanta community. The exhibit will display the decorated cards in the original card catalog so visitors can open the drawers and look through other people’s transformed cards. Selected creations will also be scanned and enlarged for an online exhibition and reproduced with other submissions to create a quilt of catalog cards.

Parking is available in the Fishburne parking deck.

"Students used the Robert Langmuir African American Photograph collection--a collection of more than 12,000 photographs depicting African American life from the 1840s to the 1990s."

An exhibit highlighting historical photographs analyzed by students in the Introduction to African American Studies class. The fall 2014 course was taught by Pellom McDaniels III, MARBL faculty curator of the African American collections and assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory, who co-curated the exhibit with his students.

McDaniels said that through the exhibit, he hopes to showcase the variety of research students can pursue in African American Studies as well as the usefulness of MARBL materials as primary evidence.

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

For nearly 200 years the Emory Libraries have evolved, expanded, and explored how we might better serve our patrons.

Change isn't new, nor is striving to keep pace with it. What is new is how the Libraries today are focused on supporting an environment where creativity and innovation not only thrive, but are essential to our daily lives. Through a variety of initiatives, we're developing new and improved programs, tools, and spaces for students, staff, faculty, and the larger community. Please join us in our culture of innovation.

"He Had a Hammer: The Legacy of Hank Aaron in Baseball and American Culture," is co-curated by Emory University students Kyle Arbuckle, Warren Kember and Brett Lake, who are juniors and members of Emory's baseball team.

Faculty advisors are Pellom McDaniels III, MARBL faculty curator of African American Collections and assistant professor of African American Studies, and Dana White, Emory professor emeritus of American Studies and MARBL senior faculty curator.

Watch the Panel Discussion.

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free

The 100+ years of digitized yearbooks provide an easily accessible trip down memory lane, but also a valuable untapped trove for research ideas.

The exhibit features a kiosk from which visitors can access the Emory University yearbooks, a narrative on how the yearbooks have highlighted various campus and societal changes over time, and oversized images from two different eras with face cutouts so visitors can pose in the fashions of yesteryear and take pictures if they wish.

Weekdays: Free after 5pm | Weekends: Free