Public Library Partnerships Project In April 2014 the Public Library Partnership Project (PLPP) launched its first one-day workshop. Since then the project has continued to mature and affect public libraries across the country. Four Digital Public Library hubs are spearheading this project for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). These hubs include Digital Commonwealth, […]
The first federally recognized Native American Heritage month was celebrated in 1990, when president George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution that designated November 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.” The commemorative month follows nearly a century of efforts to recognize the contributions of Native Americans to the shaping of American life. Some Native […]
Recently, Digital Library of Georgia staff have attended and/or presented at fall conferences that have taken place in Georgia. Georgia Council for the Social Studies GeorgiaInfo site administrator Charly Pou attended the Georgia Council for the Social Studies annual conference held in Athens, Georgia October 16-17. The Georgia Council for the Social Studies mission […]
Today, October 30, archivists around the country are taking to Twitter to respond to questions tweeted with the hashtag #AskAnArchivist Go to Twitter and ask professional archivists nationwide any questions that you have about the archives profession, or about the collections that archivists work with. Learn from the questions that other members of the public are […]
The Digital Public Library of America and DigitalNZ are very excited to announce the launch of GIF IT UP, an international competition over the next six weeks to find the best GIFs reusing public domain and openly licensed digital video, images, text, and other material available via their search portals. The winners will have their […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the re-release of the enhanced Athens Historic Newspapers Archive: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive is now compatible with all current browsers and provides access to nine newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1928 without the use of plug-ins or additional software downloads. Consisting […]
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the addition of the WSB radio logs to the DLG and to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). View collection: http://bit.ly/U7312q The radio logs document programming in the early years of WSB Radio, Atlanta’s first radio broadcast station. The logs, which span 1922 to 1949, […]
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson just a few hours after House approval on July 2, 1964. The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels. It also banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in […]
Georgia State University’s digital collections are featured in a recent DPLA blog post titled “Putting It on the Line”: Citizen Participation in the Democratic Process, Georgia State University’s Digital Collections. The post is available at http://dp.la/info/2014/06/25/putting-it-on-the-line-citizen-participation-in-the-democratic-process-georgia-state-universitys-digital-collections/ Enjoy! […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of the Southern School News now in the Civil Rights Digital Library and soon the Digital Public Library of America. The Southern School News Archive provides online access to the complete run of the newspaper, published from 1954 until 1965. The monthly paper was the […]