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," ...
Posted in Collections, Hargrett Library, Library news, Resources, Special Collections by Renna Tuten | No Comments »
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 ...
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 »
Friday, January 4th, 2013 - Richard B. Russell Library
The University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Building for Special Collections Libraries is now accepting applications for participants in its docent program.
The Docent Corps is a skilled group of volunteers who provide tours of the library galleries to visitors, ranging from fifth graders to adults. Docents are trained to ...
Posted in Hargrett Library, Library news, Library Notes, Peabody Media Archives, Programs, Richard B. Russell Library, Special Collections Libraries Building by Richard B. Russell Library | No Comments »
Thursday, June 30th, 2011 - Jean Cleveland
June 30 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Gone With The Wind, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller penned by Atlanta native Margaret Mitchell.
This spring has seen numerous events in Georgia to commemorate the event.
The University of Georgia Libraries, which hold the largest collection of Mitchell personal papers, memorabilia ...
Posted in Library Notes by Jean Cleveland | No Comments »
Monday, June 13th, 2011 - Jean Cleveland
During the fall of 2011, the UGA Libraries’ three special collections libraries will relocate from the Main Library to the new Special Collections Libraries building currently under construction at 300 Hull Street.
The move will result in delays in using materials held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Richard ...
Posted in Collections, Hargrett Library, Library news, Library Notes, Main Library, Peabody Media Archives, Richard B. Russell Library, Special Collections by Jean Cleveland | No Comments »
Friday, March 18th, 2011 - Jean Cleveland
Melissa Faye Greene and UGA alumna Natasha Trethewey, along with posthumous honorees UGA English professor James Kilgo and songwriter Johnny Mercer, will be inducted into the 2011 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame during a ceremony Tuesday, March 22 at 10:00 a.m. in the Rotunda of the UGA Miller Learning Center.
Greene ...
Posted in Library Notes by Jean Cleveland | No Comments »
Monday, May 10th, 2010 - Jean Cleveland
Mary Ellen Brooks, director emerita of the University of Georgia’s Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, will received a Governor’s Award in the Humanities May 11 in Atlanta.
Citing her “indefatigable energy,” “amazing degree of knowledge about the history of Georgia and its authors” and calling her “one of our ...
Posted in Library Notes by Jean Cleveland | No Comments »
Monday, April 12th, 2010 - Jean Cleveland
Mary Ellen Brooks, director emerita of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, will be given a Governor's Award in the Humanities at the 25th awards luncheon Tuesday, May 11 at the Old Georgia Railroad Freight Depot in downtown Atlanta! The day will begin at 10:30 a.m. with the Annual ...
Posted in Library Notes by Jean Cleveland | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 - Jean Cleveland
Two members of the University of Georgia faculty and staff, Judith Ortiz Cofer and Philip Lee Williams, are among the 2010 inductees into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Other inductees are Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1886-1966) and Walter Francis White (1893-1955). The 2010 honorees will be inducted into the ...
Posted in Library Notes by Jean Cleveland | No Comments »
