The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library maintains a number of online databases to aid searches for rare books and manuscript material. If you don’t find the resources you are looking for, we welcome questions by email: marbl@emory.edu fax: 404-727-0360 or phone: 404-727-6887. For information on requesting and using our material please consult the Research Services section of our website.
Electronic resources
EUCLID (Emory University Computing and Library Information Delivery system) is the local catalog of the Emory University Libraries. Records for the majority of our rare book collections and many manuscript collections are cataloged in EUCLID. Books and manuscripts located in the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library will have a location code of General SpecialCol. Please be aware that most manuscripts are cataloged at the collection level; this means that the catalog record summarizes what is in the collection as a whole. These catalog records do not describe every letter, postcard, photograph, pamphlet, or other document the collection contains. More information on using EUCLID may be found here.
Raymond Danowski Poetry Library
The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, believed to be the largest ever built by a private collector comprises some 60,000 books as well as tens of thousands of periodicals, manuscripts, correspondence and other materials of contemporary English-language poetry. The resources of the Danowski Library are being cataloged into EUCLID. Materials in the library may be found by using the complex search option. Type “Raymond Danowski Poetry Library” in the author field to find all cataloged materials in the collection. Using additional fields such as subject, keyword, author, and date limit searching further.
MARBL Finding Aids database contains descriptions for manuscript collections held in Emory University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library. The full-text searchable finding aids include detailed information about the history and contents of collections. This database contains many, though not all, of the finding aids for MARBL's collections. It does not include any finding aids for collections held by the Emory University Archives.
Irish Literary Collections Portal provides access to a fully searchable array of collection descriptions for the Irish literary manuscript collections held by Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library and Boston College's John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections. The finding aids are full text searchable. Please note the holding repository in the search results. Some collections may not be held at Emory University.
Subject guides are created by the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library staff on particular broad topics. They contain overviews of collections that contain information relevant to a specific topical area. Researchers interested in a particular subject might want to begin here.
Historical Newspapers is a webpage that lists of all the newspapers held by Emory University along with their respective locations in the library. All of the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library newspaper holdings are listed here.
Other resources
The Card catalog is not available online, but may be utilized on site. It is the best place to begin searches for sheet music, broadsides, maps and memorabilia. Items in the card catalog are cataloged individually.
Printed finding aids. Not all of the manuscript finding aids are available in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library Finding Aids Portal. Finding aids without an electronic version may be consulted in print form on site. The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library will email finding aids to researchers on request. Please email the Reference services staff at marbl@emory.edu for more information.
Emory Archives
The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library also holds the records of Emory University. Please visit the Emory University Archives website for more information about the Archives holdings.
Pitts Theology Library is a separate library on the Emory University campus that collects rare books and unique archives and manuscript collections relating to theological studies, Methodism in the South, the history of Christianity in South Africa, British religious history, and hymnody. Many of their holdings are cataloged in EUCLID.
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