We are excited to announce a new collection, the Hall County Library System Collection, which comes from our longtime partner, the Hall County Library System. It is available at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/bgh_search.html This collection was digitized as part of the DPLA’s Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP), which connects public librarians and public library collections with the DLG […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce two brand-new online exhibitions on the subjects of children in Progressive-era America, and Georgia’s home front during World War II that are now available through the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). These exhibitions were created as part of the DPLA’s Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP) […]
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is in the process of starting up new groups to facilitate the exploration of topics that are important to the DPLA community. These groups are: Archival Description Working Group: The Archival Description Working Group is composed of representatives from DPLA Partner institutions as well as national-level experts in digital […]
We are happy to announce a new partnership with the Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center, and to present a new collection of oral history interviews about Appalachian folk traditions and music, Foxfire Oral Histories, 2014. The oral history interviews in this collection were conducted for Foxfire’s fiftieth anniversary book, which will be made available in […]
We are excited to announce the availability the Southern Voice newspaper collection, 1988-1995 thanks to our partners at Kennesaw State University (KSU) Archives. The Southern Voice newspaper, also known as SOVO, was an alternative news source for lesbians and gay men in the greater Atlanta area and Southeast for over 20 years. The paper was […]
We are excited to announce the arrival of the Georgia Folklore Collection through our partnership with the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. The Georgia Folklore Collection includes over one thousand hours of music, interviews, and storytelling. The Georgia Folklore Collection consists primarily of field recordings made by Art Rosenbaum donated to the University […]
Please welcome us in congratulating Georgia State University Library on their newest online resource, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Collection. This collection is comprised of more than 300 maps and other documents that date back to MARTA’s beginning in the mid-1960s, and depict the planning decisions that the organization made during the 1960s and early 1970s. There are examples […]
We would like to welcome two new collections from our partners at the Atlanta History Center: the Sam Massell Papers Collection and the Living Atlanta Oral History Collection. The Sam Massell Papers collection contains a diverse set of materials representing the life and career of Sam Massell, Jr., who served as mayor of Atlanta from […]
Congratulations to our future project partner, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), who has just received a $50,000 gift from the Antinori Foundation in support of the MOCA GA Archives Digitization and Dissemination Project. Read more about the MOCA GA Archives Digitization and Dissemination Project and the grant from the Antinori Foundation here. […]
All scholarship applications are due on July 24th 2015. The Anthony Dees Scholarship – each year SGA awards a scholarship to attend the SGA-sponsored Pre-Conference Workshop. Previous workshops have addressed a variety of themes and issues faced by archivists and archival institutions, including electronic records, exhibits, donor relations, digital collections, and funding. The purpose of […]