We are eager to announce the arrival of four new collections from our longstanding project partner, the Middle Georgia Archives. The Middle Georgia Archives, located in the Genealogy and History Room of Macon’s Washington Memorial Library, serves middle Georgia as a resource center for archival and manuscript collections. Muriel Jackson, the head of the […]
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 Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is on the way to connecting online collections from coast to coast by 2017 – an effort boosted by a new $3.4 million investment, comprising $1.9 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and $1.5 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. These two new […]
The City of Savannah, Research Library and Municipal Archives has recently made a new collection available through its online Digital Image Catalog: Public Information Office–Photographs, 1948-2000. This collection contains digitized photographs, slides, negatives, and manuscript material maintained by the city of Savannah’s Public Information Office, and document city-sponsored services, programs, and significant city events. There are […]
We are excited to announce a new partnership with Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library, and the arrival of three new collections that provide us with documentation of the history of the largest consortium of African American private institutions of higher education: Atlanta University Photographs (Late nineteenth and early twentieth century photograph collection that […]
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 […]
Congratulations to Georgia State University Library on receiving a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant in the amount of $121,418 to digitize and transcribe recorded interviews from the Uprising of ’34 Oral History collection in the Southern Labor Archives. The collection includes first-person accounts of the attempts of nearly half a million textile […]
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 […]
Public Library Partnerships Project In April 2014 the Public Library Partnership Project (PLPP) launched its first one-day workshop. Since then the project has continued to mature and affect public libraries across the country. Four Digital Public Library hubs are spearheading this project for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). These hubs include Digital Commonwealth, […]
Recently, Digital Library of Georgia staff have attended and/or presented at fall conferences that have taken place in Georgia. Georgia Council for the Social Studies GeorgiaInfo site administrator Charly Pou attended the Georgia Council for the Social Studies annual conference held in Athens, Georgia October 16-17. The Georgia Council for the Social Studies mission […]