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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
Traditional ballads and fiddle tunes will be heard at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries June 15 to celebrate the recently released “Mary Lomax Ballad Book – America’s Great 21st Century Ballad Singer” by Art Rosenbaum.
With ballads and songs they learned from their father who sang for his ...
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Friday, June 7th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
Editor Charlotte Marshall, Milton Leathers, Gary Doster and University Archivist Emeritus Steven Brown will shed light on the forthcoming book "The Tangible Past of Athens, Georgia," which examines Athens' architectural history. Wednesday, June 12, 12:30, Special Collections Libraries Building Auditorium. For more information contact sabrown@uga.edu
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Friday, May 24th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
The Special Collections Libraries building is fully operational this morning. Retrieval of materials has resumed.
TGIF!
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
The History of the Book of Books: Dictionaries Old and Rare is an exhibition of selections from the Rare Books collection of the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library. On display in the rotunda of the Special Collections Libraries building, the dictionaries provide cultural as well as linguistic insights and ...
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
Unfortunately, the equipment malfunction preventing delivery of materials from the special collections vault will likely not be repaired until Wednesday at the earliest. Vault pulls are being done only on a limited basis. We apologize for any inconvenience!
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
The Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia will look back at 1973, a pivotal year in modern American history with the new exhibition, “Now and Then: 1973,” on display in the Harrison Feature Gallery of the Russell Library gallery through Dec. 15.
The goal of ...
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
Due to an equipment malfunction, pulls from the vault at the Special Collections Libraries are being done only on a limited basis. It is hoped the problem will be fixed by mid-afternoon Tuesday.
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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
The latest episode of "Unscripted with Alan Flurry" will air this Saturday (4/27) at 2 pm and features printmaker Nicola Lopez. The episode was filmed at the former location of the Hargrett Rare Books and Manuscripts Library in the Main Library.
"Unscripted with Alan Flurry" is a television series in which ...
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Monday, April 22nd, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
Brian Croxall, an Emory University English professor whose research explores representations of technology within fiction and philosophy, is the featured speaker at the Futures of the Book Symposium April 27.
The symposium will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Building.
Croxall’s talk is ...
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Friday, April 19th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
An exciting new initiative began today when the Digital Public Library of America launched its first six service and content hubs. The hubs promise to unleash millions of historical, scientific and cultural documents from many of America’s national and state institutions, making them easily searchable as digital records to anyone with an Internet ...
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