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 […]
The Digital Library of Georgia remembers the life of activist, politician, writer, and educator Julian Bond who passed away Sunday at the age of 75. As a student at Morehouse College in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bond co-organized the the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, a civil rights group that successfully desegregated Atlanta’s public facilities. In 1960, […]
Have you explored Georgia Government Publications? The Georgia Government Publications database (GGP) was developed in 1996 as GALILEO’s first digital conversion initiative and redesigned in 2009. It serves as a comprehensive digital repository of more than 60,000 born-digital publications and scanned print documents produced by Georgia state agencies published from 1994 to the present. Georgia […]
Happy National Clown Week! National Clown Week was founded by President Richard Nixon on August 2, 1971. It is celebrated during the first week of August. This week, the DLG is happy to share several resources of clowns making people happy. From the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection’s WSB-TV collection, a […]
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 […]
Digital Public Library of America, Stanford University, and DuraSpace are partnering on the IMLS-funded “Hydra in a Box” project to develop a “feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository that is easy to install, configure, and maintain” based on the Hydra project codebase. They’re seeking input from those who manage digtial collections and those who are interested […]
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. […]