MARBL in the Classroom
Library staff collaborate with instructors to incorporate rare books, manuscripts and archives into the classroom. Students are able to connect with history and with the creative process in a deeper way as they read first-hand accounts, compare early drafts of literary works, listen to a reporter’s recordings of Civil Rights demonstrations, or explore the world in the first published atlas.
Instruction sessions and assignments are tailored to the needs of particular classes. Sessions range from exploratory show-and-tells to hands-on workshops. Some classes come for a one hour introduction to the experience of working with primary sources. Other classes will devote the entire semester to working with the Library’s rich holdings.
>> View a list of the classes that have visited MARBL in recent years
MARBL also provides a place for the exchange of ideas. Classes meet in MARBL to discuss literature with poets and novelists, the news media with journalists and editors, art with artists and print makers, and history with the people who made that history.
Students who work with MARBL materials create new scholarship. Their research has led to honors theses, dissertations, exhibitions, journal articles, plays, and contributions to Emory’s collections of digital texts.
