Today, October 30, archivists around the country are taking to Twitter to respond to questions tweeted with the hashtag #AskAnArchivist Go to Twitter and ask professional archivists nationwide any questions that you have about the archives profession, or about the collections that archivists work with. Learn from the questions that other members of the public are […]
The Digital Public Library of America and DigitalNZ are very excited to announce the launch of GIF IT UP, an international competition over the next six weeks to find the best GIFs reusing public domain and openly licensed digital video, images, text, and other material available via their search portals. The winners will have their […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the addition of the Vienna Progress to the South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sgnewspapers The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive now provides access to seventeen 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 over 152,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are […]
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 […]
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 […]
Take a look: Digital Public Library of America And what can you expect to find initially at the DPLA? John Palfrey, President of the DPLA Board of Directors, describes the launch: “On April 18, we will launch the first beta version of the DPLA. In its first iteration, the DPLA will combine a group […]
The earliest known plantation baseball film has been digitized by the University of Georgia Libraries’ Walter J. Brown Media Archives from the Pebble Hill Plantation Film Collection and and can be found in the Digital Library of Georgia at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_pebblehill_phm4. See the press release below for more information on the film and the effort to make […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is a digital hub for the DPLA, and materials from the DLG will be included in the launch. The beginnings of the first public, national, on-line library will soon be unveiled in Boston – home to the country’s first publicly supported municipal library. A prototype of the Digital […]
The DLG serves as a “digital hub” for the developing Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In this capacity, the DLG (one of seven hubs) will be a pipeline for aggregated data from regional libraries, museums, and archives (read more about the function of these hubs here). The DPLA blog highlights the DLG today, as […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is accepting applications for original, unpublished historic materials significant to Georgia to be digitized and included in a nationwide digital library. Georgia libraries, museums, historical societies, archives and other cultural heritage repositories are invited to submit applications for up to five collections each to be considered for digitization and subsequent […]