One of the top 20 Association of Research Libraries in North America, Emory Libraries is the interdisciplinary intellectual commons for Emory University. Our innovative resources, services, spaces, and collections advance the success of Emory students, staff, and faculty, and benefit the community beyond campus. Your support covers a wide range of initiatives, programs, and collections. Thanks to our donors, Emory Libraries can fund Undergraduate Research Award recipients highlighting student research. Emory Libraries was able to provide over 40 programs with over 8,700 attendees in 2022 as a result of donor support. In addition, this same support allowed Emory Libraries to host 24,500+ students who attended 1,100+ library instruction sessions held in the Libraries.
Donors support specific areas such as the African American Collections Fund or the LGBTQ programs fund or may choose to support one of the discretionary funds that are so important for covering all aspects of the Libraries’ work.
Our African American collections recount the beginnings of people of African descent in North America and extend through the present. These materials reflect the development of social, political, and cultural movements, literature, visual arts, dance, and sports. Thanks to your donations, students have access to these collections in the Rose Library, one of the nation’s deepest archives documenting African American history and culture.
The Rose Library's LGBTQ political collections (MARBL - LGBT Program Fund) document the work of activists, organizations, and trailblazing political figures to achieve equality. Among the many initiatives your gifts to this fund will support is providing grants for visiting scholars and graduate students to use the collection.
The University Libraries Fund for Excellence is the discretionary fund that covers all aspects of the Libraries’ works. Librarians across specific disciplines are continuously looking to grow their collections in order to provide the best resources possible for scholars of their subject matter. Emory Libraries have over 2 million ebooks and 2.5 million print books available to support student success.
The Linda Matthews Fund for Special Collections (MARBL Fund for Excellence / Linda Matthews Fund for Special Collections) is the discretionary fund of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. The Rose Library has been shaped and strengthened through the generosity of thousands of individuals who, through the decades, have generously supported the library. Over 4 miles of boxes of unique archives are in Rose Library for faculty, students, and researchers thanks to your support!
