The Augusta-Richmond County Public Library and Coastal Heritage Society are recipients of the third set of grants awarded in a program intended to broaden partner participation in the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG). The DLG solicited proposals for historic digitization projects in a statewide call, and applicants submitted proposals for projects with a cost of up […]
Tag: oral history
Country Music in the DLG
The 49th annual Country Music Association Awards ceremony will air at 8 pm on Wednesday, November 4th. We thought this would be the perfect opportunity to feature some of the many country music resources in the Digital Library of Georgia that are available to you. Many prominent country music artists hail from Georgia, including country music’s first […]
The Sam Massell Papers Collection and the Living Atlanta Oral History Collection
We would like to welcome two new collections from our partners at the Atlanta History Center: the Sam Massell Papers Collection and the Living Atlanta Oral History Collection. The Sam Massell Papers collection contains a diverse set of materials representing the life and career of Sam Massell, Jr., who served as mayor of Atlanta from […]
New Collections from City of Savannah, Research Library and Municipal Archives
We are pleased to announce new collections with lots of new content from the City of Savannah, Research Library and Municipal Archives. These new collections include: the Benjamin Van Clark Neighborhood Documentation Project (Oral histories related to the Benjamin Van Clark Neighborhood in Savannah, Georgia focusing on mass transportation and the development of streetcar […]
Congratulations to Georgia State University on receiving NHPRC Grant
Congratulations to Georgia State University Library on receiving a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant in the amount of $121,418 to digitize and transcribe recorded interviews from the Uprising of ’34 Oral History collection in the Southern Labor Archives. The collection includes first-person accounts of the attempts of nearly half a million textile […]