Congratulations to Georgia State University Library on receiving a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant in the amount of $121,418 to digitize and transcribe recorded interviews from the Uprising of ’34 Oral History collection in the Southern Labor Archives. The collection includes first-person accounts of the attempts of nearly half a million textile […]
The DLG would like to welcome the Peach Public Libraries as a new project partner! Four new collections have been made available through this partnership: Everett Square School Photographs (Photographs of the Everett Square School in Fort Valley, Peach County, Georgia. The school was built in 1952 and has since been demolished.) Fort Valley School Photographs […]
The U.S. Copyright Office recently reviewed and made recommendations about the problem of orphan works under U.S. copyright law. During its review, the Copyright Office solicited comments and held public roundtables on the issues that effect digitization of orphan works. The results of the study are now available in the report, “Orphan Works and Mass […]
We are pleased to announce the Turner Scrapbook Collection, brought to you courtesy of the Newton County Library System (NCLS). The collection comes to us as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Public Libraries Partnerships Project (PLPP), where the Digital Library of Georgia has been granted the opportunity to work collaboratively with public […]
Our friends at Georgia State University have just launched a new resource, Works Progress Administration Maps of Atlanta. The site features over 950 maps including the 1940 Report of the Real Property, Land Use, and Low Income Housing Area Survey of metropolitan Atlanta, a 1936-1938 Atlanta Cadastral Survey, and a partially incomplete series of Fulton […]
March 7, 2015 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma-Montgomery March. The Selma-Montgomery march was organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to protest local resistance to African American voter registration in Dallas County, Alabama. Under the leadership of the SCLC’s Hosea Williams and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s John Lewis, a group of […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ngnewspapers The North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to six newspaper titles published in three north Georgia cities (Dalton, Gainesville, and Rome) from 1850 to 1922. Consisting of over 33,000 newspaper […]
Civil rights activist and writer Anne Moody passed away on Thursday, February 5 at her home in Gloster, Mississippi. Moody, a student at Mississippi’s historically African American Tougaloo College, helped organize a peaceful sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Jackson on May 28, 1963, just after the Supreme Court delivered a decision […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is conducting a social media survey, which is now available at https://ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3wVNKzX2WtX7Opn (Click on the link; it should bring you directly to the survey) If you would like to be included in a raffle for a University of Georgia Press book as a reward for taking the survey, send an […]
The new year is, for many people, time to rein in the excesses of the fall and winter holidays. The month of January is Weight Loss Awareness Month. Here are a few resources in the DLG that promote healthy diet and exercise for those of us who have begun 2016 by counting calories and increasing our […]