The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the expansion of the Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/savnewspapers The Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to seventeen newspaper titles published in Savannah from 1809 to 1880. Consisting of over 103,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can […]
We are excited to announce a new project partnership with Columbia Theological Seminary. Chris Paton, the seminary archivist at Columbia Theological Seminary, shares the history of their archives: “Columbia Theological Seminary received its first dedicated space in 1996 as the result of a major library renovation and in the same year was formally named the […]
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) will be hosting two webinars to answer questions of those interested in the Digital Dissemination of Archival Collections grant program. The webinars will be held: Wednesday, 24 June @ 3:00 p.m. Eastern Tuesday, 30 June @ 4:00 p.m. Eastern For more information about the grants, the webinars, […]
We are pleased to announce new collections with lots of new content from the City of Savannah, Research Library and Municipal Archives. These new collections include: the Benjamin Van Clark Neighborhood Documentation Project (Oral histories related to the Benjamin Van Clark Neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia focusing on mass transportation and the development of streetcar […]
The DLG would like to welcome the Peach Public Libraries as a new project partner! Four new collections have been made available through this partnership: Everett Square School Photographs (Photographs of the Everett Square School in Fort Valley, Peach County, Georgia. The school was built in 1952 and has since been demolished.) Fort Valley School Photographs […]
We are pleased to announce the Turner Scrapbook Collection, brought to you courtesy of the Newton County Library System (NCLS). The collection comes to us as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Public Libraries Partnerships Project (PLPP), where the Digital Library of Georgia has been granted the opportunity to work collaboratively with public […]
March 7, 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma-Montgomery March. The Selma-Montgomery march was organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to protest local resistance to African American voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama. Under the leadership of the SCLC’s Hosea Williams and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s John Lewis, a group of […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ngnewspapers The North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to six newspaper titles published in three north Georgia cities (Dalton, Gainesville, and Rome) from 1850 to 1922. Consisting of over 33,000 newspaper […]
Civil rights activist and writer Anne Moody passed away on Thursday, February 5 at her home in Gloster, Mississippi. Moody, a student at Mississippi’s historically African American Tougaloo College, helped organize a peaceful sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Jackson on May 28, 1963, just after the Supreme Court delivered a decision […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is conducting a social media survey, which is now available at https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3wVNKzX2WtX7Opn (Click on the link; it should bring you directly to the survey) If you would like to be included in a raffle for a University of Georgia Press book as a reward for taking the survey, send an […]