CONTACT: Deborah Hakes, dhakes@georgialibraries.org ATLANTA, Ga — Georgia HomePLACE and the Digital Library of Georgia are pleased to announce the addition of nearly 27,000 pages of South Georgia newspapers dating from 1863-1927 to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Cameron Asbell, Director of the Ohoopee Regional Library System, which includes Montgomery and Toombs counties, says “Making these newspapers available […]
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the availability of Juliette Gordon Low’s 1908 India travel correspondence at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/jglowc_search.html. The collection, Juliette Gordon Low Correspondence, Series India Letters, belongs to Girl Scouts of the USA and is housed at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. It is available online thanks in part to […]
For well over a decade, the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center has enjoyed a strategically valuable partnership with the Digital Library of Georgia that has expanded the reach of our collections in immeasurable ways. Through its technical expertise and partnerships with other data aggregators, the Digital Library of Georgia has enabled the […]
To broaden partner participation in the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), DLG is soliciting proposals for historic digitization projects costing up to $5000. Project metadata will be included in the DLG portal and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). DLG is seeking applications for metadata creation or digitization projects from the permanent holders of […]
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the availability of the Red and Black in the Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (GHN) at https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/gua1179162/ . Since 1893, the Red and Black has provided a training ground for University of Georgia students interested in gaining experience in various aspects of newspaper publishing and to […]
The Digital Library of Georgia has added several new newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website in 2018. Included below are a list of the most recent additions. Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State, 1789-1806 Augusta Herald, 1799-1821 Augusta Washingtonian, 1843-1845 Daily Chronicle & Sentinel (Augusta), 1840-1859 Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1847-1851 Daily […]
During 2018 and 2019, we’ll be incorporating all our newspaper content into a single newspaper portal, Georgia Historic Newspapers. Check out the most popular newspaper titles in GHN for 2018 thus far. Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994: 23,886 pageviews Walker County messenger. (LaFayette, Ga.): 21,485 pageviews Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962: 18,945 pageviews […]
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the availability of the Henry L. Benning Civil War materials collection at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/ghlb_search.html. The collection, which belongs to Columbus State University Archives, is available online thanks in part to the DLG’s Competitive Digitization grant program, a funding opportunity intended to broaden DLG partner participation for […]
On Wednesday, February 14, from 12-3 pm in Lab A of the University of Georgia Main Library, UGA Libraries and the Willson Center DigiLab are hosting a Transcribe-a-thon to transcribe the Freedmen’s Bureau Papers. February 14th is the 200th birthday of […]
Jan. 26, 2018 CONTACT: Angela Stanley, astanley@georgialibraries.org, (404) 235-7134 ATLANTA — Georgia HomePLACE, the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), and the Augusta-Richmond County Public Library System are pleased to announce the addition of over 10,000 digitized pages of […]