Robert W. Woodruff Library

Robert W. Woodruff Library is the main library of Emory University.[1] The Woodruff Library Building also hosts the Goizueta Business Library, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), Marian K. Heilbrun Music & Media Library and Matheson Reading Room.[2] The main entrance is on the 2nd floor, and has study area on the 1st-3rd floor. Besides the main building, there is a tower of 10 floors serving as a storage of books. The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) is on the 10th floor of the tower.[3] The curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at MARBL is Randy Gue, an Atlanta historian.[4]

In February 2014 the Schatten Gallery opened the first major exhibition of the life and work of the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney since his death in 2013. The exhibition, entitled Seamus Heaney: the Music of What Happens will be on view until November 25, 2014. The exhibition includes old photographs, personal correspondence with other writers, poems, rare publications and recordings of his poetry read by Heaney and others including actor Liam Neeson and novelist Salman Rushdie.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Robert W. Woodruff Library". Emory University. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Libraries in the Woodruff Library Building - Robert W. Woodruff Library - Emory University". Emory University. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)". Emory University. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ Lameiras, Maria (Summer 2014). "The Rainbow Chronicles". Emory magazine 90 (2): 30.
  5. ↑ "Honoring Heaney". Emory magazine 90 (1): 8. September 2014.

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