As the Digital Library of Georgia is a partner in the Digital Public Library of America, we want to keep you informed with the latest news about this exciting project. Expect to see regular updates on the DPLA alongside our regularly scheduled programming. John Palfrey recently gave a TEDx talk about the DPLA entitled “Digital Libraries […]
Toby Graham, Director of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), was interviewed on WGAU’s Newsmakers with Tim Bryant program. The topic of this interview was the DLG’s involvement with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). It is an excellent introduction to the goals of the DPLA, and to the important role that the DLG […]
Press release: Athens, Ga. – With support from two private foundations, the University of Georgia and GALILEO are helping to build a nationwide digital library. The Digital Public Library of America is a groundbreaking project to make the nation’s local archive digital, searchable and freely accessible. Launched last summer by Harvard University, the DPLA recently […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the expansion of the South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sgnewspapers The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive now provides access to fifteen newspaper titles published in nine south Georgia cities (Albany, Americus, Bainbridge, Brunswick, Cuthbert, Tifton, Thomasville, Valdosta, and Waycross) from 1845 to 1922. Consisting of over […]
Ric Burns’ film “Death and the Civil War” is scheduled to premiere as part of PBS’ American Experience series on Tuesday, September 18, the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam (check your local public television listings for the exact times). Based on the book This Republic of Suffering by Harvard president and Civil War […]
The political convention season of 1964 saw the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) grow out of voter registration and voting rights projects established by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that same year. A coalition of national, regional, and local civil rights organizations that unified to draw attention to the civil rights crisis in Mississippi, […]
Today, the Digital Library of Georgia remembers the life of civil rights worker Thelma McWilliams Glass, who passed away at the age of 96. Mrs. Glass, a professor of geography who taught at Alabama State University for forty years, was the last surviving member and secretary of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of […]
Juneteenth is the best-known and one of the oldest American holidays that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States; it commemorates the date June 19, 1865, when the last African American slaves held in Confederate states were freed, and has been observed since June 19, 1866. Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation […]
The Digital Library of Georgia will be represented on the small screen when Savannah, Georgia-based restaurateur, cookbook author, and Emmy Award-winning television personality Paula Deen is featured during the season finale of the NBC genealogy documentary series “Who Do You Think You Are?” The episode is scheduled to air tonight (Friday, May 18) at 8 p.m, EST. […]
The Pandora, yearbook of the University of Georgia, was first published in 1886 by a consortium of university fraternities. It has been published annually since then (with the exception of a few early years). The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce that volumes of the Pandora, from its inception in 1886 to the […]