Archive for the ‘Digital Library of Georgia’ Category
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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Monday, November 26th, 2012 - Jean Cleveland
The Digital Library of Georgia is accepting applications for original, unpublished historic materials significant to Georgia to be digitized and included in a nationwide digital library.
Georgia libraries, museums, historical societies, archives and other cultural heritage repositories are invited to submit applications for up to five collections each to be considered ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2012 - Jean Cleveland
Dr. Toby Graham, director of the Digital Library of Georgia and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, was interviewed on WGAU radio about UGA's participation in the Digital Public Library of America Friday morning. Listen to the interview at: http://www.1340wgau.com/s/av/
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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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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 - Deborah Stanley, Web Editor
On Tuesday September 25th, Deputy University Librarian Toby Graham was a guest on the "Newsmakers with Tim Bryant" radio show on WGAU 1340.
Listen to Toby's interview here.
Toby and Tim discussed the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Celebration on Thursday September 27th, the Special Collections Libraries building, and the ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012 - Amy Watts
At the beginning of this year, a notice was sent out from the UGA Career Center asking for supervisors to acknowledge their student workers who have worked hard demonstrating support and assistance for their university department. Supervisors sent in written information as to why their student should be nominated for ...
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 - danroth
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection has taken up residence in its new offices at the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library Building. Preparations are underway for the official building dedication ceremonies, scheduled for Friday, February 17, 2012 at 11:00a.m.
2011 found the Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2011 - Jean Cleveland
The Digital Library of Georgia and the University of Georgia Press have collaborated to make important works on Georgia history available in a digital format.
A list of titles is available from the University of Georgia Press website. Access to the digital editions is available through the Digital Library ...
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 - phoebe
Looking for free (open-access) digital versions of historic newspaper articles? A good first step might be to check NewspaperCat, a Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers produced at the University of Florida. It currently indexes more than 1000 digital newspapers from the United States and Caribbean, covering a range of dates. ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 - Andy Carter
Who doesn't like a good game of trivia? The Digital Library of Georgia is home to a wealth of answers to interesting, educational, and sometimes useless Georgia trivia. How many can you get right without clicking on the links?
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What is ...
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