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 […]
Our director Sheila McAlister has just published a new article on the Digital Library Federation’s blog about how the Digital Library of Georgia has partnered with Georgia’s public libraries through Georgia HomePLACE and the DPLA’s Public Library Partnerships Program. Please take a look! […]
We are eager to announce the arrival of four new collections from our longstanding project partner, the Middle Georgia Archives. The Middle Georgia Archives, located in the Genealogy and History Room of Macon’s Washington Memorial Library, serves middle Georgia as a resource center for archival and manuscript collections. Muriel Jackson, the head of the […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the expansion of the Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/savnewspapers The Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to seventeen newspaper titles published in Savannah from 1809 to 1880. Consisting of over 103,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can […]
We are excited to announce a new project partnership with Columbia Theological Seminary. Chris Paton, the seminary archivist at Columbia Theological Seminary, shares the history of their archives: “Columbia Theological Seminary received its first dedicated space in 1996 as the result of a major library renovation and in the same year was formally named the […]
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is on the way to connecting online collections from coast to coast by 2017 – an effort boosted by a new $3.4 million investment, comprising $1.9 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and $1.5 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. These two new […]
The City of Savannah, Research Library and Municipal Archives has recently made a new collection available through its online Digital Image Catalog: Public Information Office–Photographs, 1948-2000. This collection contains digitized photographs, slides, negatives, and manuscript material maintained by the city of Savannah’s Public Information Office, and document city-sponsored services, programs, and significant city events. There are […]
We are excited to announce a new partnership with Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library, and the arrival of three new collections that provide us with documentation of the history of the largest consortium of African American private institutions of higher education: Atlanta University Photographs (Late nineteenth and early twentieth century photograph collection that […]
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) will be hosting two webinars to answer questions of those interested in the Digital Dissemination of Archival Collections grant program. The webinars will be held: Wednesday, 24 June @ 3:00 p.m. Eastern Tuesday, 30 June @ 4:00 p.m. Eastern For more information about the grants, the webinars, […]
We are pleased to announce new collections with lots of new content from the City of Savannah, Research Library and Municipal Archives. These new collections include: the Benjamin Van Clark Neighborhood Documentation Project (Oral histories related to the Benjamin Van Clark Neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia focusing on mass transportation and the development of streetcar […]