The Robert W. Woodruff Library serving the Atlanta University Center has won the 2016 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries.
It’s the first time a library serving a historically black college or university has received this national honor.
Loretta Parham, CEO and library director, said, “This brings an immense endorsement to the level of education that is provided at the AUC, it proves that an HBCU can bring as much value, and expertise as a library at a predominantly white institution. And we do it with much fewer resources.”
The Woodruff Library, which serves students and faculty at Clark Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College and Spelman College, competed against hundreds of national university libraries for the award.
The Woodruff Library holds over 1.5 million items in all formats, and its Archives Research Center is a well-known destination for the preservation and documentation of African American history and culture. It houses items from the historic Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Papers, the Asa G. Hilliard Collection, the Walter Rodney Collection, the C. Eric Lincoln Collection and the Tupac Shakur Collection.
