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Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso from the SDH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse.  The US U17's defeated the US Virgin Islands 22-0 yesterday in Concacaf qualifying for November's U17 World Cup in Qatar. Chase Adams had 10 goals in the win. The number of goals by the team and by Adams are both records for any US team in World Cup qualifying. Two more games to go, against St. Kitts & Nevis and against Cuba, if the US wins the group, they'll go to the World Cup.MLS moves and chatter of note: Ted Ku-DiPietro is now officially part of the Colorado Rapids after they paid cash to DC United for him. Not the headliner in the new Cash for Player trade options in MLS, but a move from Colorado that leans into their strategy of getting players from other teams in MLS and trying to make the pieces fit. It could be effective this year for the Rapids.Joseph Paintsil out for about a month due to a quad strain for the LA Galaxy.LAFC winger Cristian Olivera linked with a move to Gremio in Brazil, but Tom Bogert reports that the initial offer has been rejected.Luciano Acosta sweepstakes continues. Laurel Pfahler reports that he has a no-trade clause, Dallas and San Jose reportedly interested, Evander's reported move from Portland to Cincinnati hangs in the balance.Chloe Kelly dropped from the England squad for upcoming Nations League games, she's only played 117 minutes since the last England games in November. Moise Kean racially abused in Italy after Fiorentina's loss to Inter. Hopefully people are banned from attending games as a result, examples have to be made. Champions League playoff games today: Manchester City hosts Real Madrid in the Modern Clasico, Juventus hosting PSV, Sporting hosting Dortmund, and Brest hosting PSG. Tons of upcoming events on the SDH Network:February 20th: Third Thursday at the Moxy Midtown AtlantaFebruary 24th: Why Atlanta Is Soccer City USA at the Jones Room, Woodruff Library at Emory UniversityHS coverage starts tonight as Decatur hosts North Atlanta, listen at soccerdownhere.mixlr.com or by clicking the Listen button at soccerdownhere.net, the girls match kicks off at 6pm.More Espresso on Thursday on the SDH Network, presented by Oglethorpe University.

Curators Gabrielle Dudley and Rosemary Magee detail “At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O'Connor and Alice Walker.” The exhibition is on view at Emory's Woodruff Library through July 12. Plus, Matthew Pendrick, known musically as “Slow Parade,” takes the stage for our series, “Speaking of Music.”See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Introduction: Welcome to Five & Thrive: a weekly podcast highlighting the Southeast's most interesting news, entrepreneurs, and information of the week, all under 5 minutes.  My name is Jon Birdsong and I'm with Atlanta Ventures. Product of the Week: I've had two insightful, soulful meetings and conversations in the past month at the Decatur and Downtown Switchyards. Michael Tavani, Brooks Buffington, and their talented Creative Director, Brandon have refined the model of Switchyards through Covid and nailed the product-market fit. Imagine the reverence of a library intertwined with unlimited quality coffee engulfed amongst some of the best Atlanta memorabilia outside of the Atlanta History Museum or Coca-Cola archives and you've got Switchyards. Their model changed in three ways: each location is open 24-hours, the overall square footage is smaller, and providing self-serve coffee makes the product more economical and scalable. As a lover of posting up at a library to get work done or focus on deep work – with Emory's Woodruff Library being my favorite, Switchyard's product just makes sense. After chatting with Michael and Brandon and listening to their expansion plans, they will most likely be in your hood coming soon.   Product Launch of the Week launched this week out of Augusta, Georgia and was designed by the Weir / Stewart team. The product is called Big Dog Speakers, spelled Dog, to clarify for all the Yellow Jackets listening. Big Dog Speakers is the biggest, baddest bluetooth speaker designed to work everywhere with everything. With 15 hours of playback, 105db Max Output, and more, Big Dog Speakers is your speaker for the year in 2023, and priced on sale right now for just under $100. Shout out to pushing out product and production just in time for the holiday season.  Podcast of the Week: The podcast of the week we're all listening to is Harry Stebbing's 20VC with Martín Escobari of General Atlantic. There were several themes that hit home when listening to Martin Escobari's interview. Themes include General Atlantic's framework of successful companies including how the market is the single most important factor of success. He also shares how they remain disciplined regardless of market conditions during the highs and lows. They go into several other insightful threads and listening to it was like listening to your wise Uncle at the table over Thanksgiving share stories of his career. So if you don't have a wise Uncle, just throw your airpods in and press play on this one.     Question of the Week: Where is the marketplace for very high-end freelance work? We were having a fun back and forth in the AV office not too long ago brainstorming what a high-end marketplace for freelance work would look like? Today there are marketplaces like Fiverr and Upwork but price plays a significant part in the equation. Let's say you're a former Bain Consultant, banker, seasoned writer, or marketer with years of experience, if you wanted to freelance on projects, where can you go online today to get vetted, approved, and allocated to a project? There are several markets where one could go get work, but normally it relies on the network of the individual. Imagine a marketplace where you could find, connect, and consult within days of matchmaking versus months of networking.       Company Coming Up: Today is Thanksgiving and what better company coming up to highlight than Thnks — that is Thanks without an “A.” This company spawned out of the Loeb Studio and is now headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. Thnks has built customer success software to build deeper business relationships by ensuring each customer and prospect feel appreciated. Now every company that uses Thaks equips every employee with the tools to send tokens of appreciation such as coffees, lunches, experiences, and more. There are over 50 employees at Thnks and they are also currently hiring for Account Executives in Franklin, Tennessee. On this Thanksgiving, check out a software company amplifying appreciation. And I thank each and everyone of you listening today and onwards!     Annnnd, that's 5 minutes. Thank you for listening to Five and Thrive. We provide 5 minutes of quality information, so you can thrive in the upcoming week. Please subscribe to the show and spread the good word!  Resources discussed in this episode:   Product of the Week: SwitchYards Product Launch of the Week: Big Dog Speakers Podcast of the Week:  20VC - General Atlantic Question of the Week: Where is the high-end marketplace for remote work?  Company Coming Up: Thnks

Georgia Votes is live this week at the Woodruff Library at the Atlanta University Center where we hear from young voters and contemplate various election outcome scenarios. Emma Hurt, Rahul Bali Sam Gringlas and Susanna Capelouto are joined on stage by Clark Atlanta University professor Tammy Greer. This show was made possible by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Georgia voters are turning out in record numbers and LGBTQ voters are becoming a powerful voting block. WABE's Susanna Capelouto, Rahul Bali,and Sam Gringlas are joined by Emma Hurt with Axios Atlanta in this episode where they also welcome WABE digital editor Patrick Saunders, who just published a 3-part series on LGBTQ voters in the state. We also hear about the latest allegations against Senate candidate Hershel Walker and have details about our live event November 2nd at the Woodruff Library on the Atlanta University campus. More info for that event is at WABE.org/events.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This fall, a major collection of books and papers related to Bram Stoker's iconic novel Dracula, collected by John Moore, opened to the public. Learn more about this collection here and here. Beth Shoemaker is the Rare Book Librarian at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archive & Rare Book Library in Atlanta. Her work includes cataloging, collection development, teaching and curating exhibits in the Emory Libraries. Follow her Rose Library rare books Instagram here.Eddy Von Mueller is a scholar, filmmaker and educator in Atlanta, Georgia. He co-edited How A Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley's Creation, and most recently, he directed, produced, and co-wrote with the late curator of Rose Library's African American collections, Pellom McDaniels, Small Steps, "a documentary film about the shocking experiences of a group of Upward Bound students visiting St. Augustine, Fl....in July, 1969."

Editor's note: The following article was written by Walter Rodney for a 1971 issue of Maji Maji, the quarterly journal of the youth wing of the Tanganyika African National Union. The speech is held at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia, under the supervision of the Walter Rodney Foundation. The text here is from History is a Weapon with a few additional copyedits. To most readers in this continent, starved of authentic information by the imperialist news agencies, the name of George Jackson is either unfamiliar or just a name. The powers that be in the United States put forward the official version that George Jackson was a dangerous criminal kept in maximum security in America's toughest jails and still capable of killing a guard at Soledad Prison. They say that he himself was killed attempting escape this year in August. Official versions given by the United States of everything from the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to the Bay of Tonkin in Vietnam have the common characteristic of standing truth on its head. George Jackson was jailed ostensibly for stealing 70 dollars. He was given a sentence of one year to life because he was Black, and he was kept incarcerated for years under the most dehumanizing conditions because he discovered that Blackness need not be a badge of servility but rather could be a banner for uncompromising revolutionary struggle. He was murdered because he was doing too much to pass this attitude on to fellow prisoners. George Jackson was political prisoner and a Black freedom fighter. He died at the hands of the enemy. Read the full article: https://liberationschool.org/walter-rodney-on-george-jackson/

Jina DuVernay is the Program Director for Engagement & African American Collections at Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library. Jina was the Collection Development Archivist for African American Collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Prior to that, she was the Special Collections Librarian at HBCU, Alabama State University while pursuing her MLIS from the University of Alabama. Jina serves as an editor of both Women of Color and Libraries (WOC+LIB) and the new Library Diversity and Residency Studies journal. She is passionate about engagement and outreach to communities of color, as well as recruiting, promoting, and retaining library professionals of color. Jina was a 2018 ALA Emerging Leader.

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Brandon K. Winford's John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners. Today I talked to Brandon K. Winford Dr. Brandon K. Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is a historian of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century United States and African American history with areas of specialization in civil rights and black business history. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in colonial and revolutionary-era Black women’s history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Brandon K. Winford's John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners. Today I talked to Brandon K. Winford Dr. Brandon K. Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is a historian of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century United States and African American history with areas of specialization in civil rights and black business history. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in colonial and revolutionary-era Black women's history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Brandon K. Winford's John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners. Today I talked to Brandon K. Winford Dr. Brandon K. Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is a historian of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century United States and African American history with areas of specialization in civil rights and black business history. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in colonial and revolutionary-era Black women’s history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Brandon K. Winford's John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners. Today I talked to Brandon K. Winford Dr. Brandon K. Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is a historian of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century United States and African American history with areas of specialization in civil rights and black business history. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in colonial and revolutionary-era Black women’s history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Brandon K. Winford's John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners. Today I talked to Brandon K. Winford Dr. Brandon K. Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is a historian of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century United States and African American history with areas of specialization in civil rights and black business history. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in colonial and revolutionary-era Black women’s history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Brandon K. Winford's John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners. Today I talked to Brandon K. Winford Dr. Brandon K. Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is a historian of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century United States and African American history with areas of specialization in civil rights and black business history. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in colonial and revolutionary-era Black women’s history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Brandon K. Winford's John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners. Today I talked to Brandon K. Winford Dr. Brandon K. Winford is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is a historian of the late-nineteenth and twentieth-century United States and African American history with areas of specialization in civil rights and black business history. Adam McNeil is a PhD Student in colonial and revolutionary-era Black women’s history.

Award-winning lyricist and activist, Nina "Lyrispect" Ball was commissioned to create an original poem in response to "Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness" that debuted during #SpelZanelePRIDE. #SpelZanelePRIDE was a panel discussion featuring esteemed guests Dr. Beverly Guy Sheftall, Latishia James-Portis, and Marla Renee Stewart on the sexuality, spirituality, and visibility of #LGBTQI women of the African Diaspora during Atlanta’s annual PRIDE celebration. The panel was preceded with a performance of Lyrispect's original poem – The Reclamation* – and sparked an afternoon of epic and poetic proportions. #SpelMuse #SpelZanele #SpelZanelePRIDE *The Reclamation was originally performed at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and recorded at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library. Image: Lyrispect by Adrianna Clark

If you listened to last weeks’ episode, you know that I’m on the road with my family for the summer. Today I’m recording in San Antonio, TX, where we’re getting ready to visit the Alamo and bike the Missions Trail. The audio for episode 61, however, was recorded live at the 2017 Charleston Conference as part of our Penthouse Suite interviews. Loretta Parham, CEO & Library Director of Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, is interviewed by Tom Gilson of Against the Grain and Glenda Alvin of Tennessee State University. Ms. Parham was also a keynote speaker for the conference, and her presentation can be viewed at https://youtu.be/F-0nqy44KIo.  Each year, ATG is pleased to release a series of video interviews titled “Views from the Penthouse Suite.” These interviews occur at the Charleston Library Conference, and it has become something that we look forward to every year. Select speakers and attendees are invited to the Penthouse Suite on the 12th floor of the Francis Marion Hotel in historic downtown Charleston, SC, to discuss wide-ranging topics and issues of importance to the publishing and library world. Videos of these interviews are available on the Charleston Conference YouTube channel and on the Conference website video page. Thanks for listening! Links: Loretta Parham Interview Video https://youtu.be/f_EiqLKOy04 Charleston Conference YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CharlestonConference ATG Views from the Penthouse Suite Videos: http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/video/atg-penthouse-interviews/  

Joseph Crespino, author and Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University, discusses his book, “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” at a Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation in Emory’s Woodruff Library. Rosemary Magee, former director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, joins Crespino for the conversation, which includes a discussion of the Rose Library’s recent acquisition from rare book collector Paul R. Kennerson. It contains personal letters to friends and other materials from Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the recently published “Go Set a Watchman.” Finch, a significant character in both books, was based on Lee’s father, an attorney. Crespino’s book draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee’s father provided the central inspiration for each of her novels. The Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations series highlights creativity and imagination as essential to every discipline and enterprise. The event is sponsored by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry; Center for Creativity & Arts; Emory College of Arts & Sciences; Emory Department of History; Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and the Emory Libraries.

Joseph Crespino, author and Jimmy Carter Professor of History at Emory University, discusses his book, “Atticus Finch: The Biography,” at a Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversation in Emory’s Woodruff Library. Rosemary Magee, former director of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, joins Crespino for the conversation, which includes a discussion of the Rose Library’s recent acquisition from rare book collector Paul R. Kennerson. It contains personal letters to friends and other materials from Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and the recently published “Go Set a Watchman.” Finch, a significant character in both books, was based on Lee’s father, an attorney. Crespino’s book draws on exclusive sources to reveal how Harper Lee’s father provided the central inspiration for each of her novels. The Rosemary Magee Creativity Conversations series highlights creativity and imagination as essential to every discipline and enterprise. The event is sponsored by the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry; Center for Creativity & Arts; Emory College of Arts & Sciences; Emory Department of History; Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, and the Emory Libraries.

Beat poet, editor, performer, activist, artist, and educator Anne Waldman participates in a Creativity Conversation with poet Kevin Young, an Emory Distinguished Professor who is now director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Sponsored by the Hightower Fund. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition "The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940–1975" at the Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery from September 28, 2017 to May 15, 2018.

Beat poet, editor, performer, activist, artist, and educator Anne Waldman participates in a Creativity Conversation with poet Kevin Young, an Emory Distinguished Professor who is now director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. Sponsored by the Hightower Fund. This event is in conjunction with the exhibition "The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940–1975" at the Woodruff Library’s Schatten Gallery from September 28, 2017 to May 15, 2018.

Welcome to episode 36 of ATG: The Podcast.  We have a short episode this week, but still packed with lots of good stuff. First off, do you know a rising star in the library and information world?  Would you like to see them recognized for their promising achievements?  Look no further!  ATG Media is thrilled to announce the first ever round of nominations for Up and Comers.  Who exactly is an “Up and Comer”, you ask?  They are librarians, library staff, vendors, publishers, MLIS students, instructors, consultants, and researchers who are new to their field or are in the early years of the profession.  An Up and Comer can be someone you work with, someone you’ve presented with or shaken hands with at a conference, or someone whose accomplishments and potential you admire.  Up and Comers are passionate about the future of libraries.  They innovate, inspire, collaborate, and take risks.  They are future library leaders and change makers.  And they all have one thing in common: they deserve to be celebrated.  The 2017 Up and Comers will be recognized in the December/January issue of Against the Grain, and 20 of these brilliant rising stars will be profiled in the same issue.  In addition, they will be featured in a series of scheduled podcast interviews that will be posted on the ATGthePodcast.com website. Nominations for the inaugural round of Up and Comers is open through September 1.  Don’t wait!   Spread the good news, tell your friends and colleagues, and nominate your favorite Up and Comer at the link provided below. https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/up-comer-nominations-now-open/ There are several scholarships available for this year’s Charleston Conference. Springer Nature is proud to honor the legacy of Cynthia Graham Hurd by awarding a $1,500 travel grant to a librarian that has not had an opportunity to attend the Charleston Library Conference due to lack of institutional funding. To apply, librarians are asked to submit a project or initiative developed at their library to enhance diversity and inclusion. Topics can include diversity in selection of resources, providing services to support the research and learning needs of all segments of the academic community, improving educational outcomes, addressing issues including racial disparities, racial equity, income inequality, gender inequality and more. The application deadline is October 2. EBSCO is providing a scholarship of up to $1,000 for applicants who currently work as a librarian or para-professional. You can apply by sending one professional recommendation,, your CV, and a short essay on the following topic: A 2015 article in Entrepreneur declared that the One Certainty about the Future is the Pace of Change will Only Quicken. To be prepared for what the future holds, what are the top three juggernauts that librarians need to address to position libraries to succeed and to expand their position within their institutions? The application deadline has been extended to September 15. In an ongoing effort to help librarians grow professionally and increase their understanding of the changing state of knowledge resources, IGI Global is proud to continue the Academic Librarian Sponsorship Program, which sponsors librarians’ attendance of the industry’s most important events. 2017 application information will be posted the first week of September. We’d like to congratulate the scholarship winners who’ve already been announced for this year: Christian Burris from Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, won the Harrasowitz Charleston Conference Scholarship, and Molly J. Mulligan, an Electronic Resources Acquisitions Professional at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) Kraemer Family Library is the grand prize winner for the SAGE Publishing photo contest. Links to Christian’s winning essay and Molly’s winning photo are available on the Conference website at the link below. https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/scholarships/ Taylor & Francis have put together a great series of videos titled “Why Charleston?” showing clips of attendees from the 2016 conference that have been added to our YouTube channel. There are some shorter clips, each around a certain theme of the conference, and one full length video showing all of them together. Thank you to the team at Taylor & Francis for creating and sharing them with us. https://www.youtube.com/user/CharlestonConference/ A reminder that the Charleston Fast Pitch is still accepting proposals that pitch a winning idea to improve service at an academic or research library through September 15.  The proposal should describe a project or venture that is innovative, useful and better or different than what has been done in the past or done currently. Selected proposers will have five minutes to pitch their idea before a Charleston Conference audience on Wednesday, November 8, and a panel of judges who will determine the finalists. The Goodall Family Charitable Foundation will sponsor two $2,500 awards for the finalists.    Last year's winners were Syracuse University for their Blackstone LaunchPad for student entrepreneurship, and St. John Fisher College, for their Coordinated Collection Development API Project. A write up of the session is available on the conference blog, and an ATG Special Report on all the winners, runners up, and honorable mentions is available on the Against the Grain website. https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/fastpitch/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2016/11/charleston-fast-pitch-competition/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2017/01/atg-special-report-the-charleston-library-conference-fast-pitch-2016/ The program is coming together nicely, and we should have something to share with you in the next few weeks. Confirmed plenary speakers include Loretta Parham, CEO and Director of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library, Georgios Papadopoulos, Founder and CEO of Atypon, Jim O’Donnell of Arizona State University, and  Brewster Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. We’re also excited to welcome back the “Long Arm of the Law” panel, organized and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor to CRL. This year’s talk includes Charleston favorite William Hannay, Partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, and Ruth L. Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/speakers/ Now, Katina has some additions to her “If Rumors Were Horses” column in ATG. Thanks Katina! Hello everyone! The ATG and Charleston Conference teams are all fine in Charleston. We have heard from several of you after the shooting at Virginia’s Restaurant on King Street on Thursday, August 24. Thanks for everyone’s concern.  The hard-working and focused Rolf Janke has recently moved to Raleigh, NC and he says it’s great to be back East again! Rolf has already had lunch with Beth Bernhardt in Greensboro. He is planning to drive to Charleston this November for the Conference. Rolf is founder and publisher of Mission Bell Media which publishes print and digital media for the library market with a focus on leadership.Titles from thePeak Series represent contemporary topics for academic librarian career development. http://www.missionbellmedia.com/ While we are talking about books, did you see the article in the Wall Street Journal about Sue Grafton (August 25, p. M3). Sue’s father was a novelist  himself. Both parents were alcoholics though apparently her father was a successful lawyer and wrote detective fiction at night. Her mother was  “vivacious, outgoing, pretty and friendly” when she was sober. Sue talks about being afraid of water in the basement of their huge house because of big rains and sitting at home with a butcher knife because she was afraid of “bad guys”. The stuff of fiction. Fascinating and wonderful article. Highly recommended. https://www.wsj.com/articles/author-sue-graftons-scary-childhood-home-1503413068 While we are talking about books, we have been spending a lot of time in our new place on Sullivan’s Island and my son Raymond, the real bookman, discovered sullivans-trade-a-book-mount-pleasant. It’s a delightful bookstore with wonderful inventory (we bought many new additions for our personal libraries). Between the Edgar Allan Poe Branch of the Charleston County Library on Sullivan’s and Trade a Book in Mt.Pleasant, I think we will have plenty to keep us reading! An aside, Poe was stationed on Sullivan’s as a private in the US Army in 1827 and 1828  and he used the island setting as the background of his story “The Gold Bug.” http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?id=14637&action=detail& https://www.yelp.com/biz/sullivans-trade-a-book-mount-pleasant Was excited to learn that the great debater Alison Scott has been appointed associate university librarian for collection management and scholarly communication by the UCLA Library. She will assume her role on Oct. 2. “I am pleased to welcome Alison to the UCLA Library,” said Ginny Steel, Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian. “Her extensive, varied experience with collection development, licensing, budgetary constraints and statewide and national consortial initiatives will enable us to continue to build, preserve, and provide access to a rich, deep collection of physical and digital materials that support UCLA's fundamental mission of teaching, research and public service.” The associate university librarian has leadership, management, strategic policy and planning responsibilities for collection management functions and the library’s comprehensive scholarly communication program. The position oversees five major departments: cataloging and metadata, preservation, print acquisitions, scholarly communication and licensing and the Southern Regional Library Facility.  Alison comes to UCLA from UC Riverside, where she has been associate university librarian for collections and scholarly communication since 2014. While there she has focused in particular on enhancing the library’s approach to collection development, crafting a curation strategy that views general and special collections materials as combined into distinctive collecting areas and incorporating faculty involvement into the review process. Prior to working at Riverside, Alison served as head of collection development at George Washington University and in a number of collection development roles at Harvard University’s Widener Library. She earned her doctorate in American and New England studies at Boston University, master’s degrees in library science and in religion from theUniversity of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Whitman College. I remember the Hyde Park Debate at the 2016 Charleston Conference  between Alison Scott and Michael Levine-Clark  on the topicResolved: APC-Funded Open Access is Antithetical to the Values of Librarianship In Favor: Alison Scott and Opposed: Michael Levine-Clark. The debate was conducted in general accordance with Oxford Union rules. All in the audience voted their opinion on the resolution before the debate began using text message voting, and the vote totals were recorded. Each speaker offered a formal opening statement, followed by a response to each other's statements, and then the floor was open for  discussion. At the conclusion of the debate, another vote was taken. The winner of the debate was the one who caused the most audience members to change their votes. Members of the audience had an opportunity to make comments and pose questions as well. I remember voting for Alison because I thought she did a great debating job! No hard feelings please, Michael! Plus, I think I was once again against the grain of the group. www.against-the-grain.com www.charlestonlibraryconference.com Moving right along, we decided to take the debate online as a Webinar this year and we had a huge registration (363) on the debate topic of Resolved: The Journal Impact Factor does more harm than good. Debating were Ann Beynon (Clarivate Analytics) and Sara Rouhi(Altmetric).  I have to give big kudos to Rick Anderson. The debates are his creation. Rick acts as the moderator for each debate.  We are planning for more debates this year. Please send suggestions of possible resolutions! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=567UeNLKJx8 Several months ago, Tom Gilson and I were able to interview Andrea Michalek, Managing Director of Plum Analytics, to discuss its acquisition by Elsevier. Recently  we learned that Elsevier is integrating PlumX Metrics into its leading products, expanding access to these tools to the wider academic community. We are updating the interview even as we speak. Watch for it on the ATG NewsChannel and in the print issues of ATG. Speaking of which, shocking us all, Elsevier has just acquired another US-based business, bepress. WOW! Here is some of the press release. -- Elsevier, today acquired bepress, a Berkeley, California-based business that helps academic libraries showcase and share their institutions’ research for maximum impact. Founded by three University of California, Berkeley professors in 1999, bepress allows institutions to collect, organize, preserve and disseminate their intellectual output, including pre-prints, working papers, journals or specific articles, dissertations, theses, conference proceedings and a wide variety of other data. “Academic institutions want to help researchers share their work, showcase their capabilities and measure how well they’re performing,” said Jean-Gabriel Bankier, bepress CEO. “Now with Elsevier we’ll be stronger and better by applying more technologies and data and analytics capabilities to help more institutions achieve their research goals.”  The bepress model is unlimited, cloud-based, and fully hosted, and includes dedicated consulting and support. bepress offers Digital Commons, the leading hosted institutional repository software platform and a comprehensive showcase for everything produced on campus. It is also the only repository that seamlessly integrates with the Expert Gallery Suite, a solution for highlighting faculty and research expertise. The bepress CEO and employees will continue working with the company in Berkeley, California. The acquisition is effective immediately and terms of the agreement are not being disclosed. That’s it for this week! If you have comments or questions, you can click the “Contact” button on the podcast website, or you can email me directly at leah@charlestonlibraryconference.com. Thanks for listening, and I hope to hear from you soon!  

Epitaphs for the Living is a conversation with Billy Howard about his photographs of people living with HIV/Aids in the 1980s and Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at Rose Library. Riveting images of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, taken by Atlanta-area photographer Billy Howard, are the basis for the exhibit curated by Rose Library curator Randy Gue. “Billy Howard’s ‘Epitaphs for the Living’ ” features 17 photographs, each showing a person with HIV/AIDS—or their loved one—and a handwritten message from that person about living with the disease. The photographs are stark and yet moving, and the messages reveal hope and resilience. The exhibit includes some of the photo subjects’ letters to Howard, as well as audio clips, accessible from the Woodruff Library exhibitions webpage with a mobile phone, which discuss the stories behind some of the photographs. Tentative closing date of the exhibition is August 31, 2017.

Epitaphs for the Living is a conversation with Billy Howard about his photographs of people living with HIV/Aids in the 1980s and Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at Rose Library. Riveting images of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, taken by Atlanta-area photographer Billy Howard, are the basis for the exhibit curated by Rose Library curator Randy Gue. “Billy Howard’s ‘Epitaphs for the Living’ ” features 17 photographs, each showing a person with HIV/AIDS—or their loved one—and a handwritten message from that person about living with the disease. The photographs are stark and yet moving, and the messages reveal hope and resilience. The exhibit includes some of the photo subjects’ letters to Howard, as well as audio clips, accessible from the Woodruff Library exhibitions webpage with a mobile phone, which discuss the stories behind some of the photographs. Tentative closing date of the exhibition is August 31, 2017.

On November 4, 2014, Susannah Darrow, executive director and co-founder of Atlanta-based arts organization Burnaway, was the guest in the Atlanta Intersections conversation series at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Darrow joined in conversation with series director Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Burnaway is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to providing critical coverage and dialogue about arts in Atlanta and the Southeast through an online publication, an annual print edition and public programs. The focus of the Atlanta Intersections series this fall has been on the arts, a reflection of the many arts-related collections among MARBL’s holdings. The point of Atlanta Intersections is to bring the city’s past into conversation with its present. MARBL’s distinctive collections about dedicated to providing critical coverage and dialogue about arts in Atlanta and the Southeast through an online publication, an annual print edition and public programs. The focus of the Atlanta Intersections series this fall has been on the arts, a reflection of the many arts-related collections among MARBL’s holdings. The point of Atlanta Intersections is to bring the city’s past into conversation with its present. MARBL’s distinctive collections about Atlanta trace the history of the city’s arts community since the 1960s, and BURNAWAY examines and engages with today’s vibrant and diverse arts scene in Atlanta and the Southeast.Atlanta trace the history of the city’s arts community since the 1960s, and BURNAWAY examines and engages with today’s vibrant and diverse arts scene in Atlanta and the Southeast.

On April 8, 2014, longtime Atlanta LGBT community activist Jesse Peel was the guest in the Atlanta Intersections series at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Randy Gue, curator of modern political and historical collections at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), directs the series and conversations. Peel, who was instrumental in building local organizations to support people with HIV/AIDS and their families as the epidemic gained momentum in the early 1980s, donated his papers to MARBL in August 2012 as the library began assembling a dedicated LGBT collection. "Jesse Peel had a front-row seat when the AIDS crisis arrived in Atlanta, and he has inspiring stories to share," Gue says. "He talks about how the LGBT community had to develop its own support, invent its own organizations, and provide its own services because there were no services available to respond to the epidemic."

On December 3, 2013, the Rev. Bernard LaFayette Jr. shared his experiences on the front lines of the modern civil rights movement and discussed his new book at Emory University at the Robert W. Woodruff Library. LaFayette, distinguished senior scholar in residence at Emory University's Candler School of Theology and national board chair for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), talked about his recently published memoir written with Kathryn Lee Johnson, titled "In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma" (The University Press of Kentucky). Carol Anderson, associate professor of African American Studies at Emory and co-curator of "And the Struggle Continues," hosted the conversation with LaFayette.

On Nov. 20, 2013, President Barack Obama awarded the Rev. C.T. Vivian the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 21, 2013, the day after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Vivian visited Emory University to take part in a conversation about his life and his experiences in the civil rights movement and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) at Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Vivian is interviewed at the event by Andra Gillespie, associate professor of political science at Emory and author of "The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark and Post-Racial America" (2012).

The traveling exhibit "Joe Louis Barrow: A life and career in Context" opened and previewed on November 13, 2013 at the Woodruff Library at Emory University. The life and legacy of boxing great Joe Louis is told through photographs, periodicals and archival materials from Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). The opening included Joe Louis Barrow Jr., film clips of Louis' significant boxing matches, and other prized materials. The exhibit and its opening are part of this year's Race and Sports in American Culture Series, a roster of events examining the intersection of race and sports throughout American history.

The archive of Neighbors Network — a citizens' watchdog organization that monitored the activity of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi skinheads and other hate groups in metro Atlanta and other nearby areas — is now open to researchers and the public at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). Walter B. Reeves, a co-founder of the group who served as its co-chair of education and outreach, donated the archive to MARBL. This conversation with Reeves about his experiences and work with Neighbors Network was held April 17, 2013 in the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the Emory campus.