DLG would like to be comprehensive in its coverage of Georgia-related digital projects. Unfortunately, from time to time, we miss newly available collections. Please help us create a portal with extensive coverage of the state’s history. When announcing a new digital project, please take a moment to complete this form (http://bit.ly/bq0eMP) so we can be […]
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Y2K…anyone? Planes falling from the sky, computers unable to tell time, nano-level Keystone Kops type stuff bringing everything to a complete stop. I forget exactly what the fear was (we’d wake up on the LOST island?). This First Friday Briefing (pictured) from the Georgia Department of Defense recounts the “sigh of relief” as all heck […]
Farming has been, and continues to be, an integral part of the Georgia experience. The Digital Library of Georgia’s collections represent centuries of life on farms around the state through photographs, diaries, correspondence, newspapers, and even moving images. Some of the more endearing collection photographs involve interactions between children and farm animals. Below is but […]
Georgia’s recent pre-summer heat wave left many of us wilted and wishing for the languid days of childhood. Of course, one of the pleasures of summertime has always been summer camp. The photos of Camp Dixie in the Carlisle Family Photographs Collection show that not much has changed since they were taken in the mid-1920s. […]
What can you do with a digital library? The answer: win an Emmy. Stars from several departments in the UGA Library were part of the collaborative effort – from the genesis of the Civil Rights Digital Library to the program conceived by Ambassador Andrew Young – that culminated in this honor. I’m re-posting from the […]
“In 1948, a visitor to the southern Appalachian mountains in north Georgia could see an average of 93 miles. By 1990, due to air pollution, that distance had dropped to an average of 22 miles.” The above quote comes from page seventy-four of a report titled The State of Georgia’s Environment 2009. It is accompanied […]
In May, the Digital Library of Georgia and the Cuba Archives of the Breman Museum announced the expansion of the Southern Israelite Archive: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/israelite/ The Southern Israelite Archive now includes issues from 1959-1983, and spans the years 1929-1986, including over 48,000 images. Rabbi H. Cerf Straus established the Southern Israelite as a temple bulletin in […]
The DLG has recently completed some exciting projects. We thought we’d take a minute to catch you up. The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to fourteen newspaper titles published in Atlanta from 1847 to 1922. Consisting of over 67,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that […]
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is excited to unveil its own blog. With over two hundred collections from sixty institutions, an ever increasing archive of historic Georgia newspapers, a public domain repository of government publications, and the ground breaking Civil Rights Digital Library, the DLG is large, diverse and truthfully a bit difficult to […]