Archive for the ‘Collections’ Category
Monday, July 7th, 2008 - Jean Cleveland
In the continuing shift of collections and offices, newspapers have been moved to the first floor reading room. They are now located on shelves near the windows into the lobby area.
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 - Jean Cleveland
The 4th annual exhibit of items from the James W. Woodruff Sr. Center for the Natural History of Georgia and the Chattahoochee River Valley is on view at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (3rd Floor, Main) through June.
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 - Amy Watts
The Atlanta Journal Constitution recently published an article highlighting the Civil Rights Digital Library, a project between the Media Archives, DLG, NGE, GALILEO, and folks in the Franklin College.
The Civil Rights Digital Library site (http://crdl.usg.edu) includes around 30 hours of raw footage of the Civil Rights movement from the ...
Posted in Collections, Digital Library of Georgia, Media, Peabody Media Archives, Resources, WWW by Amy Watts | No Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 - Jean Cleveland
Aerial views of campus, 1934-1980, from the Libraries map collection now adorn the entrance to the Main Library. A larger, more recent version is being framed and will be added.
The Map Library maintains the largest collection of aerial photography of the State of Georgia outside of the National Archives. ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008 - Amy Watts
The original Confederate Constitution will be displayed on Friday, April 25, 2008 from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. in the Turner Gallery of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (on the 3rd floor of the Main Library).
Information about the Constitution may be found here, and a transcript on this ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008 - UGA Libraries
Peabodys: In the Pursuit of Excellence recently appeared in the industry magazine TVWeek. Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards Horace Newcomb gives an in-depth interview about the history of the awards, the nomination and selection process, and the future of the awards with regards to electronic media such ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008 - UGA Libraries
The Digital Library of Georgia was recently featured on ilovelibraries.org as the "Digital Library of the Week."
ilovelibraries is a digital newsletter for the American Library Association. It singled out the DLG's "Vanishing Georgia" collection for particular praise.
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Friday, January 11th, 2008 - UGA Libraries
Is the The Dreyfus Case by Fred C. Conybeare checked out? Looking to review the case against Standard Oil? Or perhaps you just want to dip into some "...Anecdotes of Notorious Characters Who Have Outraged The Laws of Great Britain...?"
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 - Skip Hulett
The latest issue of The Georgia Review dedicates itself largely to Georgia Writers Hall of Fame honoree Harry Crews. Drawing upon the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library's Harry Crews Papers, which were acquired from Crews in 2006, the Review features a never-before-published autobiographical essay by Crews and a selection ...
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Friday, June 8th, 2007 - UGA Libraries
The Making of the Modern World is the new name of the resource formerly known as The Making of the Modern Economy. The title has been changed accordingly in GALILEO.
The Making of the Modern World provides full text page image access to more than 61,000 historical works of economic ...
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