Fellowships in the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL) focus on the organization, management, and access for rare book and archival materials. The fellows work with modern literary archives, the Raymond Danowski poetry library, African American collections, and southern history archives and materials. Past fellowship projects in MARBL have included the following:

• Online, Multimedia Civil War Subject Guide
This project was designed to provide enhanced access to Emory’s rich manuscript collections related to the American Civil War. The fellow was writing her dissertation on the Civil War and used her subject expertise to design a research tool to help other scholars. The project involved reviewing collections and new accessions, writing brief collection descriptions, organizing the collections by topic, selecting appropriate illustrations and digitizing them, and encoding the guide in HTML. The resulting guide allows researchers to find our collections through web searches, links the brief guide entry to the corresponding entry in EUCLID, collates the materials related to battles and military units so that researchers can easily identify what we have on a particular battle or regiment, and provides online access to selected documents and images of interest. The fellow also worked on the MARBL reference desk, assisting scholars and students with their research and answering reference questions related to the Civil War collections.
http://marbl.library.emory.edu/Guides/guides-cw/default.html

• Online French Revolution Pamphlet Collection
This project, a collaboration between MARBL and the Beck Center for Electronic Texts, was designed to increase access to a selected subset of the 3,000+ French Revolution pamphlets held by the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. The fellow was a graduate student in the French Department. He worked with a member of the History Department to identify a coherent group of pamphlets, created both digital images of the pages and then digital text from those images, and encoded the digital text according to the Text Encoding Initiative. He also identified related digital text collections and wrote an overview and research guide. http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/frenchrevo/

• Arranging and Describing the Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Radio Program Files
This project prepared an important multimedia collection for research use. The Will the Circle Be Unbroken? program files consist of interview transcripts, audiovisual materials, scripts, program research files, and production files created by the Southern Regional Council during production of this award-winning radio documentary series. The fellow was working on a dissertation on related to race and the development of popular entertainments in the twentieth century South. He inventoried the materials in the collection, organized them, wrote up a collection description, and placed them in appropriate archival containers.

For details concerning eligibility and the application process, see http://web.library.emory.edu/services/hr/fellows.html