WEBINAR – Revealing Hidden Collections: The Our Story Digitization Project at the Atlanta University Center

Revealing Hidden Collections: The Our Story Digitization Project at the Atlanta University Center WEBINAR! Date:  Thursday, November 15, 2:00-3:00 pm EST Cost:  FREE to all Speakers: Aletha Moore, Digitization Project Manager, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Holly Smith, Archivist, Spelman College Christine Wiseman, Head Digital Services, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library […]

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Digitization of the Pinebranch, the first student publication of South Georgia State Normal College and Georgia State Woman’s College (both earlier names for Valdosta State University)

The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the digitization of the Pinebranch, the first student publication of South Georgia State Normal College and Georgia State Woman’s College (both earlier names for Valdosta State University). The Pinebranch was a literary magazine published from September or October of 1917 to May of 1934. In addition […]

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Newest printable poster and postcard for K-12 educators and students now available

The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to share the second in a series of printable posters and postcards for K-12 educators and students, based upon the Georgia 8th Grade Social Studies Standards of Excellence (GSE). These resources provide high quality, standards-aligned materials that help teachers meet the varying academic interests and needs of their […]

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Groundbreaking Georgia LGBTQ television programming now available online

ATLANTA, Ga. — Groundbreaking Georgia LGBTQ television programming now available online The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the availability of the Mike Maloney Collection of Out TV Atlanta Video Recordings at http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/outtv. The collection, which contains about 240 digitized tapes of raw footage created in the process of making the show, belongs […]

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Historic Dalton Scrapbook Now Freely Available at Digital Library of Georgia

CONTACT: Deborah Hakes, dhakes@georgialibraries.org, 404-852-5547 DALTON, Ga — An historic scrapbook documenting the history and progress of the city of Dalton has been digitized and added to the Digital Library of Georgia. Funding for this project was provided by Georgia HomePLACE, the digitization unit of the Georgia Public Library Service, in partnership with the Northwest […]

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Newly digitized Milledgeville State Hospital record book a valuable source of local history

CONTACT: Deborah Hakes, dhakes@georgialibraries.org, 404-852-5547 MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga — Over 100 digitized pages of a Milledgeville State Hospital Alumna Association Record Book have been added to the Digital Library of Georgia at https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gv0_csh_alreg through a partnership between the Twin Lakes Regional Library System and Georgia HomePLACE. Spanning 1910-1957, the journal records the graduating classes of the […]

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Monthly teacher reports from African American rural and city schools operating during the 1930s in Laurens County, Georgia now available online

The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the availability of the Teacher’s Monthly Reports Collection at https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/zhe_tmr. The collection, which belongs to the Oconee Regional Library System, is available online thanks in part to the DLG’s 2018 Competitive Digitization grant program, a funding opportunity intended to broaden DLG partner participation for statewide […]

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Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Summer 2018

Over the summer, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the new titles along with titles added from previous newspaper websites. Titles funded by the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation Albany Courier (Albany), 1847 American Standard (Albany), 1855 Athens […]

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DLG educator resources available for K-12 educators and students

We have educator resources available for K-12 educators and students! The DLG has been working hard on developing new educator resources for the back-to-school season. They are based on the Georgia 8th Grade Social Studies Standards of Excellence (GSE), and are available at https://sites.google.com/view/dlg-educator-resources. We have plenty of materials for you to take advantage of, […]

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Augusta-Richmond County Public Library and Coastal Heritage Society receive Competitive Digitization grants from the DLG

The Augusta-Richmond County Public Library and Coastal Heritage Society are recipients of the third set of grants awarded in a program intended to broaden partner participation in the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG). The DLG solicited proposals for historic digitization projects in a statewide call, and applicants submitted proposals for projects with a cost of up […]

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