Anicka Austin is an Atlanta-based artist and archivist curious about the relationship between ephemerality, documentation and legacy. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Carolina Academic Library Associates fello

Building Black Women's Archives: Talking with Monet Lewis-Timmons

Jan 21st, 2022 29m 30s

Monet Lewis-Timmons is an English PhD candidate at the University of Delaware and an alumna of Emory University (2018), where she double majored in English and African American Studies. Her dissertation research focuses on the genealogical life

The Carbonas: Greg King and Jesse Smith

Dec 22nd, 2021 59m 24s

Randy Gue, Rose Library Curator of Modern, Political, and Social Movements and host of “Rose Library Presents: Atlanta Intersections,” joins us for a cross over episode that kicks off three episodes talking with members of the bands that played

Curiosities at the Rose: a beard, a king, and what Shakespeare is doing in the middle

Nov 17th, 2021 29m 1s

Head of Collection Processing Sarah Quigley and Rare Book Librarian Beth Shoemaker take us into the Rose Library archives to talk about two curiosities connected to history in unique ways. In this episode, we learn how the purported beard hair

What is a Community Outreach Archivist?

Jun 16th, 2021 43m 46s

Lolita Rowe is the Community Outreach Archivist at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She works with the Metro Atlanta community to collect, preserve, and provide access to di

What is a Rare Book Librarian?

Apr 21st, 2021 27m 4s

Rare Book Librarian Beth Shoemaker talks about books as information rich records that contain a multitude of topics and different voices that invite readers, researchers, and many more to learn about the history of thought.

What is a Digital Archivist?

Mar 17th, 2021 36m 16s

Head of Digital Archives Katherine Fisher demystifies digital archives and explains why items are not always available online.

What is an Instruction Archivist?

Feb 17th, 2021 31m 49s

Instruction Archivist Gabrielle Dudley talks about her roles as a faculty coach and student advocate and how she and her team design meaningful engagement opportunities with the archives.

What is Research?

Jan 20th, 2021 1h 3m

Society of American Archivist Vice President and Head of Research Services at the Rose, Courtney Chartier, talks advocacy of the profession, engagement with the community, and about her experience as one of the processing archivists for the Mar

What is Curation?

Dec 15th, 2020 35m 34s

Follow Randy's podcast, Rose Library Presents: Atlanta Intersections, which explores how lives and place are bound together. The series brings activists, artists, authors, journalists, musicians, photographers, scholars, and urbanists together

What is Processing?

Nov 18th, 2020 34m 51s

You can read Rose Library’s statement on Harmful Language in Finding Aids here and follow along here as we detail our work with Anti-Oppressive Archival Description in our latest blog series. The first post in the series appears on November 18,

What is Accessioning?

Oct 21st, 2020 33m 32s

Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Meaghan and Rosemary had to cancel their site visits in the Chicago area and the Northeast region of the United States. Both trips were scheduled in March and were supposed to be the last ones for the first

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