Archive for the ‘Programs’ Category
Friday, February 22nd, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
To warm up baseball fans for the March 31 start of Major League Baseball’s regular season, the University of Georgia’s George Foster Peabody Awards and Peabody Award Collection will present three baseball-themed documentaries that have won the coveted award. The films will all be screened Wednesdays in March at 7 ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2013 - Amy Watts
Community Concern Gathering
February 12, 2013 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Second Floor, Rm. 285
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries
How should we build a strong vibrant community?
What are the challenges to achieving this goal?
The Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia invites you to participate in a community forum to ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
The University of Georgia Libraries and the Terry College of Business will host a question and answer program with Alex Cooley and Peter Conlon, veteran concert promoters and founders of Atlanta’s Music Midtown, on Jan. 15 at 2 p.m.in the auditorium of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.
Conlon ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2013 - amber
The Miller Learning Center is proud to participate in World Book Night as a library distribution site. World Book Night U.S. is part of an ambitious global campaign to encourage reading. In the U.S., a half million free books will be handed out in towns and cities all on one ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland
In conjunction with the Aaron Burr exhibit currently on display in the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library Gallery, UGA alumnus and collection owner Brian Hardison will speak about Burr's life Jan. 23. The talk will be at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Russell Special Collections Libraries Building.
The ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2013 - Richard B. Russell Library
The University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Building for Special Collections Libraries is now accepting applications for participants in its docent program.
The Docent Corps is a skilled group of volunteers who provide tours of the library galleries to visitors, ranging from fifth graders to adults. Docents are trained to ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 - Richard B. Russell Library
Do you remember the first time you fell in love?
This February the First Person Project, an oral history series documenting the experiences of everyday Georgians, invites participants to tackle the topic of love. How did you meet your spouse? What do you remember about your worst breakup or most awkward ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2012 - Jean Cleveland
Make plans to attend "An Evening at the UGA Special Collections Library" with Judith Ortiz Cofer's Advanced Creative Writing class Fri. (Dec. 7).
A reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. At 7 p.m., students will read from their poetry and prose based on the art, rare books and artifacts in UGA's ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2012 - Renna Tuten
The UGA Special Collections Libraries is pleased to host History of the Book: More Than Words, a symposium sponsored by the Willson Center for the Humanities.The symposium will take place on Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 9AM to 5PM on the 2nd floor of the Russell Special Collections Library Building ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012 - Jean Cleveland
The University of Georgia and GALILEO are helping to build a nationwide digital library with support from two private foundations,
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a groundbreaking project to make our country’s local archive digital, searchable, and freely accessible. Launched last summer by Harvard University, the DPLA recently ...
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