UGA Libraries News & Events

Head of Map and Government Information Library appointed to Depository Library Council

Hallie Pritchett, head of the Map and Government Information Library, has been appointed to the Depository Library Council for a three year term. The 15 member Council advises the Public Printer of the United States on policy matters related to the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The University of Georgia Libraries is the state’s regional depository for Federal government documents.

See the press release from the Government Printing Office: http://www.gpo.gov/pdfs/news-media/press/13news13.pdf

Posted in Government Documents, Library news, Map Library, Staff news by Deborah Stanley, Web Editor | No Comments »

Annual Display of Confederate Constitution April 26

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 year.

Due to its fragility, the document is displayed only one day a year — on Confederate Memorial Day.

Posted in About us, Exhibits, Hargrett Library, Library Events, Library news, Special Collections, Special Collections Libraries Building by Jean Cleveland | No Comments »

GALILEO password changed

The GALILEO password has been changed. Find the new password in your library account.

We were alerted yesterday that someone had posted the password on a public website. Please remember that our GALILEO password should be known only to UGA students, faculty, and staff.  When you post the password on an open website, Twitter feed, or other place accessible to non-UGA people, we are required to change it.

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“Paws & Relax” During Finals Week at Main!

Finals stressing you out?  Feeling overworked?
Tell it to a therapy dog!

On Weds. May 1 and Thurs. May 2 from 11am-1pm, the UGA Libraries has invited some local therapy dogs to help you ‘Paws & Relax’ on the north quad in front of the Main library.   Need giant-sized attention?  Marley the Great Pyrenees and Maggie Rose the Giant Schnauzer will be on hand.  Need daintier comfort?  Amber the Wonder Pug and Winnie the Mini Schnauzer will be on duty.  If medium is more your style, visit with a Golden, a Lab or a Collie.  And, because nothing warms the heart quite like a mutt, Athens Animal Control and Athens Canine Rescue will come by with some happy-though-homeless dogs too.

Posted in Library Events, Library news, Library Notes, Main Library, Miller Learning Center, Programs by nadine | No Comments »

MLC Now Lending A/V Equipment!

The Miller Learning Center now lends audiovisual equipment to UGA students (in addition to laptops, iPads, and e-readers). Stop by the MLC 3rd Floor East Desk with your UGACard to check out the equipment, including:

• Canon T2i DSLR cameras
• Panasonic HDC-TM700 camcorders
• Flip Video MinoHDs
• Zoom H1 Digital Audio Recorders
• Tripods
• Gorillapod videos
• Camera-mounted microphones
• Lavalier microphones

For more information, visit mlc.uga.edu/technology/laptops.html

Posted in Miller Learning Center, Resources by amber | No Comments »

Reduced Hours Saturday 4/13 for Main and Science Libraries

The Main and Science Libraries will open at 10am and close early at 4pm this Saturday 4/13 in anticipation of the estimated 65,000 people coming in for the Jason Aldean concert.  The campus will have extremely limited parking and transit options in addition to some road closures so please plan your visit accordingly.

There will be no UGA Transit service on Saturday due to road restrictions. For more information: http://transit.uga.edu/

For parking information: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/parking-options-available-for-jason-aldeans-athens-concert/

Tags: building hours, Main Library, Science Library

Posted in About us, Access Services, Building info, Library news, Library Notes, Main Library, Science Library, Staff news by Viki Timian | No Comments »

Special Collections Libraries Host Faculty Open House April 17th

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 libraries.

Toby Graham, deputy university librarian, will welcome guests in the auditorium (Room 285), at 2p.m.

“UGA faculty have integrated Special Collections holdings and spaces into their teaching in exciting and productive ways during the Russell Building’s first year,” Graham said. “We welcome faculty members to the open house to hear examples from their colleagues and to consider how the libraries can help them to enrich their own research and instruction.”

The event will begin with a panel discussion from 2-3 p.m., followed by an offering of 30-minute breakout sessions further exploring archivist/faculty partnerships from 3-4 p.m. The second half of the event will feature tours of the galleries and 30,000-square-foot collections vault; opportunities to meet staff, ask questions, and discuss future collaborations; and enjoy light refreshments from Big City Bread.

To attend, University faculty and graduate students providing instruction should register online at http://www.libs.uga.edu/scl/facultyrsvp.html. For more information about the event contact Jan Levinson, outreach archivist at the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, (706) 542-5788, jlevinso@uga.edu.

Tags: Hargrett, Hargrett Library, Media Archives, Richard B. Russell Library, russell library, Special Collections Libraries Building

Posted in Events, Library Events, Library Notes, News, Peabody Media Archives, Programs, Richard B. Russell Library, Special Collections Libraries Building by Richard B. Russell Library | No Comments »

Earliest known plantation baseball game film discovered

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 J. Brown Media Archives, the only public institution in Georgia devoted entirely to preserving unique moving images and sound from the state,  last year.  Pebble Hill, a hunting plantation located just outside Thomasville, was bought in 1896 by Howard Melville Hanna of Cleveland, Ohio, as a winter home. In 1901 he gave the property to his daughter, Kate Hanna Ireland, and her children Livingston and Elizabeth “Pansy” Ireland.  Pebble Hill’s trustees donated the family’s films to the Media Archives in order to preserve their unique scenes of the family and property.

“It is believed to be the only existing moving image of a baseball game between teams made up of African-American employees on Southern hunting plantations.  The precise date of the film is unknown, but based on photographs of Pebble Hill teams and from other films wound with this film, it appears to have been made around 1919,” said Margaret Compton, moving image archivist at UGA. The opposing team in the game is from Chinquapin Plantation, also situated just outside Thomasville.

More here: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/earliest-known-plantation-baseball-game-film-discovered/

http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/

Posted in About us, Library news, Peabody Media Archives, Special Collections, Special Collections Libraries Building by Jean Cleveland | No Comments »

2013 UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Award Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards. These awards provide cash prizes for excellence in research and academic inquiry. Congratulations to this year’s winners!

Senior Division

First Place
Rachel Perez
The Fever Progress: Yellow Fever in 19th and 20th Century Savannah and Havana
Faculty mentor: Dr. Reinaldo Roman
Librarian mentors: Diane Trap and Nan McMurry

Runners up
Terese Gagnon
Surveying the Landscape of Research: Academic inquiry and the value of following the connections
Faculty mentor: Dr. Virginia Nazarea
Librarian mentor: Caroline Barratt

Richard D. Weimar, III
Using Raman Spectroscopy to Analyze Ancient Pigments
Faculty mentor: Dr. Tina Salguero
Librarian mentor: Ian Thomas

1st-3rd Year

First Place
Kaitlyn Downs
Indian-American Identity: Merging Cultures in University Spaces
Faculty mentor: Dr. Christina Joseph
Librarian mentor: Caroline Barratt

Runner up
Joanna Caffrey
The Excommunication of Early Jewish Christians and its Interpretive Value for the So-called Temple Cleansing in the Gospel of John
Faculty mentor: Dr. Wayne Coppins
Librarian mentor: Sandra Riggs

The awards were presented at the CURO Symposium on April 2, 2013 at the Classic Center. Find more information about the awards and (soon) the winner’s essays at http://www.libs.uga.edu/researchaward/

(L to R) Richard Weimar, Rachel Perez, Terese Gagnon, Joanna Caffrey, and Kaitlyn Downs

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Librarian Mariann Burright featured in Columns

Mariann Burright, Head of Science Collections & Scholarly Communication Librarian, is featured in the current issue of Columns, discussing UGA’s institutional repository Athenaeum@UGA.

Excerpt:

“Regionally, we are well-positioned,” she said. “There already is quite a bit of openly accessible work that has been harvested and deposited in (UGA’s institutional repository).”

Called Athenaeum@UGA, the repository includes conference papers, research reports, articles from other open access sites, instructional material and other works by UGA faculty, along with electronic theses and dissertations of UGA graduates.

Posted in Publications, Publishing and Copyright, Science Library, Staff news by Amy Watts | No Comments »