Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the date when a quarter of a million Americans from across the United States converged upon Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Plans for this event began in 1962 when A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, suggested the idea […]
This week, the legacy of civil rights activist Medgar Evers is being observed nationally; he was assassinated on June 12, 1963. After requesting the assistance of the NAACP to file a lawsuit against the University of Mississippi upon rejection by its all-white law school, Mississippi native Evers was hired as the first Mississippi field secretary […]
Mississippi native, Baptist preacher, author, and civil rights activist Will D. Campbell passed away on Monday, June 3 at the age of 88. Known for a lifetime of humanitarian work, Campbell was directly involved with many key events of the Civil Rights Movement. He left the University of Mississippi as its director of religious life […]
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) launched its service and content hubs on April 18th. Read this interview, “Digitizing Georgia’s Cultural Heritage,” with associate director of the Digital Library of Georgia and DPLA service hub director Sheila McAlister to learn more about the Digital Library of Georgia, and its role as one of the six service […]
Take a look: Digital Public Library of America And what can you expect to find initially at the DPLA? John Palfrey, President of the DPLA Board of Directors, describes the launch: “On April 18, we will launch the first beta version of the DPLA. In its first iteration, the DPLA will combine a group […]
The earliest known plantation baseball film has been digitized by the University of Georgia Libraries’ Walter J. Brown Media Archives from the Pebble Hill Plantation Film Collection and and can be found in the Digital Library of Georgia at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_pebblehill_phm4. See the press release below for more information on the film and the effort to make […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is a digital hub for the DPLA, and materials from the DLG will be included in the launch. The beginnings of the first public, national, on-line library will soon be unveiled in Boston – home to the country’s first publicly supported municipal library. A prototype of the Digital […]
The University of Georgia Libraries seeks a Digital Public Library of America Coordinator who will be responsible to the Associate Director of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) for metadata aggregation, creation and upgrade; project management; staff supervision; rights management; vendor and partner relations; and other duties related to the DLG’s participation in the Digital […]
On this day in 1909, the Masonic Temple in Atlanta was opened to the public on the corner of Peachtree and Cain streets. The project took two years to complete at a cost of $250,000 and was built to serve as the headquarters for several different white Masonic groups in the Atlanta area (African American […]
The DLG serves as a “digital hub” for the developing Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In this capacity, the DLG (one of seven hubs) will be a pipeline for aggregated data from regional libraries, museums, and archives (read more about the function of these hubs here). The DPLA blog highlights the DLG today, as […]