Home Movie Day is an event held at numerous locations worldwide on October 17th, and provides people with the opportunity to share home movies, promote amateur filmmaking, and appreciate the importance of home movies as historical and cultural documents. You can learn more about Home Movie Day at http://www.centerforhomemovies.org/hmd/ If there isn’t a Home Movie […]
In the early hours of October 12, 1958, fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entranceway at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta’s oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as “the Temple.” The incident was but the most recent in a string of bombings throughout the nation affecting churches and synagogues associated with […]
Please welcome our new project partner, the Okefenokee Regional Library System http://okrls.org/ , and their two new collections, the Okefenokee Postcard Collection (available at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/pos_search.html) and the Laura S. Walker Collection (available at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/lsw_search.html ). These collections were digitized as part of the DPLA’s Public Library Partnerships Project (PLPP), connecting public librarians and public library collections with the DLG […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/wgnewspapers The West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to six newspaper titles published in five west Georgia cities (Butler, Carrollton, Dallas, Douglasville, LaGrange) from 1843 to 1942. Consisting of over 37,000 […]
This past week has brought its share of severe weather and flooding to the Southeast. We just wanted to point out a few helpful resources in Georgia Government Publications that will help you prepare for floods. Quick guide: floodplain management in Georgia. Guide prepared by the Floodplain Management Office of the Georgia Department of Natural […]
Civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs passed away on Monday, October 5, at the age of 100. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Grace Lee was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1915, was raised in New York City, and received a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1940. Based in Detroit, Michigan since the early […]
We are pleased to announce a new collection from our partners at the Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System. The collection, the Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System Collection (available at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/gcm_search.html) is one of our newest resources featuring materials from public library collections that have been digitized as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Public Libraries Partnerships Project […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the re-release of the enhanced South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sgnewspapers The South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive is now compatible with all current browsers and provides access to seventeen newspaper titles published in ten cities from 1845 to 1922 without the use of plug-ins or additional […]
September is National Wilderness Month. The Georgia wilderness is a habitat for the state’s wildlife, and the breeding ground for many animal species. We would like to point you to some DLG resources that feature the protection of Georgia’s wild places and natural resources. Field operations weekly report (Georgia. Wildlife Resources Division. Law Enforcement Section) […]
This Thursday, October 1, archivists around the country will take to Twitter to respond to answer your questions about any and all things archives tweeted with the hashtag#AskAnArchivist. This day-long event, sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, will give you the opportunity to connect directly with archivists in your community—and around the country—to ask questions, […]