Archive for the ‘Collections’ Category

“Integrated in All Respects”

Thursday, May 17th, 2007 - Richard B. Russell Library

Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School Films The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies and the Digital Library of Georgia are pleased to announce that Ed Friend's historic Highlander film is now accessible online via the Digital Library of Georgia. "Integrated in All Respects" consists of Ed ...

18th Century Collections now in GALILEO

Friday, March 30th, 2007 - UGA Libraries

We now have access to a major new database, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, thanks to a purchase by the Law School that makes the database available to the entire university community. ECCO is a searchable, full-text database of 138,000 digitized texts published between 1701 and 1800, based on the ...

UGA Centennial Alumni Catalog (1901) now online

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 - UGA Libraries

The Digital Library of Georgia and the Hargrett Rare Books & Manuscripts Library are pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: University of Georgia Centennial Alumni Catalog, 1901. In 1901, to celebrate 100 years of classes at the Athens campus, the University of Georgia assembled the Centennial ...

Harold Paulk Henderson, Sr. Oral History Collection Open for Research

Monday, July 17th, 2006 - Richard B. Russell Library

We are pleased to announce that the Harold Paulk Henderson, Sr. Oral History Collection, 1981-1994, is now open for research. The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Harold Paulk (Hal) Henderson, Sr., during his research for two monographs, The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political ...

Map Library exhibit this week

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 - Amy Watts

The Map Library currently is exhibiting of a selection of items from its collection, including the Moon Globe, historic maps of Atlanta and Athens, and historic air photos of the campus. If you are interested, we would love to have you come and view the exhibit. It will ...

Blitch Papers Open for Research

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 - Richard B. Russell Library

We are pleased to announce that the Iris F. Blitch Papers, 1954-1985 (bulk 1954-1962) are now open for research. A U.S. Representative from Georgia's Eighth District (southeast Georgia), Iris Blitch served for two terms, 1955-1963. As one of only fifteen women members (and the only southerner) in the U.S. House ...

New databases provide wealth of full-text resources

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 - Amy Watts

Hours of your life can now be sucked away by enjoying the full-text goodness to be found in the following three databases: American Periodical Series (APS) Online Full-text articles from over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1741 and 1900. Contents include America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, popular magazines like ...

“Ships for Victory” collection added to DLG

Monday, July 25th, 2005 - Amy Watts

"Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia" has been added to GALILEO. This online collection consists of eighty-four black-and-white photographs from the J.A. Jones Construction Company collection at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict the company’s World War II cargo ship building activities in ...

WSB Newsfilm Collection now indexed online

Friday, July 15th, 2005 - Peabody Awards Collection

The WSB Newsfilm is 5 million feet of newsfilm shot by this Atlanta Television Station. An index describing all the clips in the collection is now available on the Web. When you reach the website, there is no need to log in. Just click on "Search" and begin.

Researching the history of UGA?

Thursday, June 30th, 2005 - Skip Hulett

Visit the newest information-menu page for the University Archives, whose collection of online finding aids -- such as this one for the papers of Vice President Emeritus for Public Service and Outreach S. Eugene Younts -- continues to grow.