Pitts supports Open Access publishing
Open Access publishing follows several practices to make academic research more accessible to more people. As you might expect, publishing has costs, and in the most common form of academic publishing, those costs fall on the institutions and individuals who hold subscriptions. In other words, while scholars can publish…
The archives of the African Orthodox Church held at Pitts Theology Library
The constitution and canons of the African Orthodox Church Year after year, one of the most frequently requested and most commonly researched collections in the Pitts Special Collections is the archives of the African Orthodox Church (AOC). This collection contains the records of the African Orthodox Church in South…
Don’t reshelve those books! Missing books and why Pitts wants to do the work for you
The Pitts staff and student workers are well-versed in magic, but magic isn’t how we find books when they go missing from the stacks. A Pitts reshelving cart on the first floor, where patrons have (properly!) placed books when they were finished with them. When a patron cannot find…
2024 Pitts Annual Friends of the Library Book Sale
Pitts’ Annual Friends of the Library Book Sale returns this year with some big changes! This year we’re offering $15 cartons for EmoryCard holders ($30 for non-Emory) to fill with whatever will fit (estimated 20-25 books per carton). A la carte options are also available—$2 for paperback and $3…