Emory Libraries is the collective group of academic libraries at

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, USA. The libraries include the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Goizueta Business Library, Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, Pitts Theology Library, Oxford College Library, and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Since July 2022, Valeda F. Dent serves as vice provost of the Emory Libraries and Michael C. Carlos Museum.

List of libraries

Robert W. Woodruff Library

Robert W. Woodruff Library is the main library of

, not to be confused with the other Robert W. Woodruff Library at the

Atlanta University Center The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUC Consortium) is a collaboration between four historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in southwest Atlanta, Georgia: Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, and the Mo ...

associated with local Atlanta HBCUs. It was founded in 1969. In addition to the main library, the Woodruff Library building also hosts the Goizueta Business Library, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Marian K. Heilbrun Music & Media Library, the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, and the Matheson Reading Room. The building includes three floors of open study space, as well as the Schatten Gallery on the third floor, and six floors of stacks (4–8) with book storage. The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) is on the tenth floor of the tower. In February 2014 the Schatten Gallery opened the first major exhibition of the life and work of the late Irish poet

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

since his death in 2013. The exhibition, titled ''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 William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Liam Neeson, several accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, BAFT ...

and novelist

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( ; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern wor ...

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)

Typically referred to as MARBL or "Rose Library," the main archives and rare book library at Emory houses the Emory University Archives as well as collections in African American history, Southern history, literature and poetry, rare books, and modern politics. Rose Library holds approximately 150,000 print titles and more than 1,350 collections. It hosts about 1,800 visitors yearly, including about 500 professional researchers from outside Emory and 800 K-12 students from the local Atlanta area. The curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at MARBL is Randy Gue, an Atlanta historian.

Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library

The MacMillan Law Library primarily serves students in the

Emory University School of Law Emory University School of Law is the law school of Emory University, a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. It was founded in 1916 and was the first law school in Georgia to be granted membership in the American Association of Law ...

. It was founded in 1916, the same year as the Law School.

Pitts Theology Library

The Pitts Theology Library is a United Methodist theology library that primarily serves students in the Candler School of Theology. Its early print, rare book, and archives collection is world-renowned and includes the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection, the largest collection of Reformation-related materials in North America, and the manuscript collections of John and Charles Wesley.

Goizueta Business Library

The Goizueta Business Library is located within the Woodruff Library building and serves graduate and undergraduate students in the

Goizueta Business School Emory University's Goizueta Business School (also known as ''Goizueta Business School'', ''Emory Business School'', or simply ''Goizueta'' – pronounced ''goy-swet-ah'') is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia ...

Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library

The Health Sciences Library is part of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center complex built in 1966. It primarily serves graduate students in the Emory School of Medicine, Rollins School of Public Health, and

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is the nursing school of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The school awards the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Master of Nursing (MN), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Doctor of Nursing Pr ...

and also supports undergraduate and graduate students in the physical sciences.

Oxford College Library

The Oxford College Library supports first and second-year students at Oxford College of Emory University, Emory's smaller satellite campus in Oxford, Georgia. Oxford College is the site of the original Emory University location built in 1836, and its library houses some of the earliest archives of Emory's history.

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