This press release is part of a series of guest posts contributed by our partners at HomePLACE, a project of the Georgia Public Library Service. HomePLACE works with Georgia’s public libraries and related institutions to digitize historical content for inclusion in the Digital Library of Georgia. “Georgia’s Treasures: Exploring Your Genealogy, History and Culture at Public Libraries” […]
This press release is part of a series of guest posts contributed by our partners at HomePLACE, a project of the Georgia Public Library Service. HomePLACE works with Georgia’s public libraries and related institutions to digitize historical content for inclusion in the Digital Library of Georgia. ATLANTA, Ga — Georgia HomePLACE and the Digital Library […]
Contact: Rhiannon Eades Public Information Officer Athens-Clarke County Library Phone: (706) 613-3650, ext. 336 E-mail: reades@athenslibary.org http://www.athenslibrary.org/athens FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2017 Athens-Clarke County Library announces Image Magazine digitization project funded by Digital Library of Georgia grant ATHENS, Ga. – Image Magazine, one of the area’s first African American lifestyle magazines, has been has […]
Flagpole Magazine, Athens’ popular alternative newsweekly is the latest addition to the Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (GHN), at https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn94029049/, part of the Digital Library of Georgia, based at the University of Georgia Libraries. The release of this new collection coincides with the 30th anniversary of Flagpole. Athens is unique as a small college town that […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the addition of the previously digitized Milledgeville newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/ GHN now provides online access to thirteen Milledgeville newspaper titles published between 1808 and 1920, including: Confederate Union, 1862-1865 Federal Union, 1830-1872 Future Citizen, 1914-1916 Georgia Argus, 1810-1815 […]
October 23, 2017 WRITER: Jean Cleveland, jclevela@uga.edu, 706-542-8079 CONTACT: Sheila McAlister, mcalists@uga.edu, 706-542-5418 Digital Library Hits 1 Million Newspaper Pages ATHENS, Ga — The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is celebrating its 1 millionth digitized historic newspaper page. The premier issue of the Georgia Gazette, Georgia’s first newspaper, published from 1763-1776 in Savannah, will become […]
This is the first in a series of guest posts contributed by our partners at HomePLACE, a project of the Georgia Public Library Service. HomePLACE works with Georgia’s public libraries and related institutions to digitize historical content for inclusion in the Digital Library of Georgia. If you’ve spent any time in the Southern United States, […]
September 1, 2017 New Grant Program Seeks to Increase Digital Participation ATHENS, Ga — The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, the Johnny Mize Collection at Piedmont College, and town films and home movies at the University of Georgia media archives are among nine Competitive Digitization grants awarded through a new program with the Digital Library of […]
Aug. 14, 2017 Digital Library of Georgia received National Endowment for the Humanities grant to digitize newspapers ATHENS, Ga – Within two years, the Digital Library of Georgia will digitize 100,000 more pages of Georgia historic newspapers, thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The DLG will receive $255,590 […]
In July 2017, the Digital Library of Georgia added both new and previously digitized newspaper titles to its recently released Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Below is a list of newspapers titles slated to be added to GHN over the next six months. In the fall of 2017, DLG will add the following newspapers: Flagpole […]