The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the addition of the McDuffie Museum Collection to the DLG and to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). http://goo.gl/DwyfXg The collection includes digitized photographs, letters, newspapers, postcards, maps and government documents from the American Revolution through the early twentieth century. Though a small collection […]
Friday, April 4, 2014 Contact: Sheila McAlister, 706-542-5418, mcalists@uga.edu Gates Foundation provides funding for training public librarians Athens, Ga. – The Digital Library of Georgia, based at the University of Georgia Libraries, is receiving $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Digital Public Library of America to provide digital skills training for […]
NPR’s Fresh Air recently aired a book review of The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic by John Demos. An excerpt is available here. The Heathen School was the familiar name of Cornwall, Connecticut’s Foreign Mission School, a nine-year venture that existed between 1817 and 1826, whose purpose […]
GeorgiaInfo, the state’s online almanac based at the University of Georgia, launched a redesigned website Jan. 21. http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/ GeorgiaInfo is part of the Digital Library of Georgia, and is hosted by GALILEO and the University of Georgia Libraries. GeorgiaInfo was created in 1996 by the UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government. In 2008 the site […]
Colleagues, The Digital Library of Georgia and GALILEO are seeking guidance about the digital preservation needs of the GALILEO community. Please take a few minutes to let us know what types of assistance and resources would benefit your institution. We are also seeking to develop a baseline of digital preservation knowledge and readiness. The survey […]
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the appointment of Sheila McAlister as Director of the Digital Library of Georgia, a GALILEO initiative based at the University of Georgia, where she will direct state-wide efforts to create online access to key resources on Georgia’s history and culture. From 2001 to 2013, McAlister directed metadata and […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the addition of the Vienna News to the South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sgnewspapers blank The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive now provides access to sixteen newspaper titles published in ten south Georgia cities (Albany, Americus, Bainbridge, Brunswick, Cuthbert, Thomasville, Tifton, Valdosta, Vienna, and Waycross) from 1845 to 1922. Consisting of […]
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the date when a quarter of a million Americans from across the United States converged upon Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Plans for this event began in 1962 when A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, suggested the idea […]
This week, the legacy of civil rights activist Medgar Evers is being observed nationally; he was assassinated on June 12, 1963. After requesting the assistance of the NAACP to file a lawsuit against the University of Mississippi upon rejection by its all-white law school, Mississippi native Evers was hired as the first Mississippi field secretary […]
Mississippi native, Baptist preacher, author, and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell passed away on Monday, June 3 at the age of 88. Known for a lifetime of humanitarian work, Campbell was directly involved with many key events of the Civil Rights Movement. He left the University of Mississippi as its director of religious life […]