The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the availability of the City of Athens Police/Mayor’s Court Records collection at https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/arl_capmcr. The collection, which belongs to the Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room, is available online thanks in part to the DLG’s Competitive Digitization grant program, a funding opportunity intended to broaden DLG partner […]
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 Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room was recently awarded the Common Heritage Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (press release available here –see pages 11 and 12 of the document for details). This grant will be used to digitize privately held historical sources relating to the African American experience in Athens-Clarke County at a series […]