Archive for the ‘Special Collections’ Category

Limited vault-pulls at Special Collections Libraries

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.

Special Collections Patron Alert! Lumpkin and Baxter Construction Delays, May 13 – June 13.

Saturday, May 11th, 2013 - Renna Tuten

Visitors to the UGA Special Collections Libraries should be aware of potential traffic delays if traveling on Lumpkin Street or Baxter Street to reach the Russell Special Collections Library Building. Travel from Broad Street via Newton and Hull Streets will not be affected. Construction advisory:  Lumpkin and Baxter Streets lane and ...

UGA Media Archives story to feature on national news tonight (4/30)

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 - Amy Watts

Just got word that coverage of the discovery of  the oldest known film of African-American baseball players will be on both "World News with Diane Sawyer" and "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley." This is after coverage in the New York Times today. The footage was discovered as part of a ...

“Unscripted with Alan Flurry”

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 ...

Hargrett Library Opens Four Broadcasting and Journalism Collections

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 - Renna Tuten

The Hargrett Library is pleased to announce four new broadcasting and journalism collections: Sidney Pike papers Sidney Pike's (b. 1927) career in television began with producing and directing baseball programming for Boston's WBZ-TV and WHDH-TV for 17 years. During his tenure at WHDH, Pike also produced a documentary, "American Way of Life," ...

Futures of the Book symposium

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 ...

Georgia well-represented as National Digital Public Library launches

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 ...

Annual Display of Confederate Constitution April 26

Thursday, April 18th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland

The only surviving copy of the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America will be on display in the gallery of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. An accompanying exhibit focuses on the year 1863 and features letters, diaries and publications from that ...

Special Collections Libraries Host Faculty Open House April 17th

Monday, April 8th, 2013 - Richard B. Russell Library

The Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries will celebrate its first anniversary with an open house for university faculty. Scheduled for 2-6 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, the event will spotlight faculty members who have formed innovative collaborations with the Special Collections Libraries and showcase the exhibits and collections of the ...

Earliest known plantation baseball game film discovered

Friday, April 5th, 2013 - Jean Cleveland

A 26-second film of a game played by African-American employees at Pebble Hill Plantation, circa 1919, may be the earliest moving images of baseball filmed in Georgia. The 28mm home movie, part of the Pebble Hill Plantation Film Collection (c. 1917-c. 1976), was donated to the University of Georgia Libraries’ Walter ...