Project: Handheld Text Scanners
These line-by-line text scanners could be used by patrons in
areas where materials do not circulate (such as in Hargrett, Russell and
Reference) for capturing electronically a pages or pages of text.
Once the lines are in a desktop, they can be saved as a file and then e-mailed
to the patron or copied to a patron’s floppy disc. Cost: $250
each
Project: Portable Tape Recorder and Accessories
A professional portable tape recorder is needed to develop the
Richard Russell Library for Political Research & Studies' oral history
program. Equipment is vital to collecting any new interviews, as
currently there is no appropriate equipment. An oral history program will
strengthen all collections with complementary interviews. Cost: $420
Project: Monographic Sets
These include encyclopedic works, collected works and compilations
of previously published articles and essays arranged by subject.
Costs vary.
Ilya Kabakov: Installations – Catalogue Raisonne, 1983-2000
Ilya Kabakov was born in 1933 and has been one of the most important
of Russia’s contemporary conceptual artists. His innovative installations
that fit into the category of Sots Art, a style that satirizes Soviet Social
Realism, have brought him international acclaim. Cost: $120
Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue Raisonne – Band 1, 1905-1922
Kurt Schwitters, a German artist (1887-1948), was influenced by German
Expressionism and later became well known as a member of the Dada Movement.
He later incorporated Constructivist ideals into his style, called Merz.
His output was very diverse. He incorporated many of the major artistic
forces going on around him to build his own philosophy and aesthetic, which
was far more traditional than other revolutionary artists of his time.
Cost: $250
Warhol 01: Paintings and Sculpture, 1961-1963 – The Andy Warhol Catalogue
Raisonne
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has enjoyed great notoriety as the high priest
of Pop Art in America. His works range from the giant realistic portraits
of Campbell’s soup cans to multiples of Marilyn Monroe and Mao Zedong.
His subject was always popular culture. His view was always refreshingly
alive. He elevated the ordinary to high art. Cost: $250
L’oeuvre Peint de Jean Lurcat: Catalogue Raisonne, 1910-1965 (The
Painted Work of Jean Lurcat: Catalogue Raisonne, 1910-1965)
Jean Lurcat (1892-1966) was born in France. His lively colorful
compositions show the influence of both Matisse and Georges Braques.
This book would be important to research on early 20th-century Cubism in
France. Cost: $295
Richard Lindner: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and
Drawings
Richard Lindner was born in 1901 in Germany. His work exemplifies
the essence of Pop Art, a major 20th-century movement that took on the
commercial slickness of the advertising world as an emblem of modern western
culture. However, Lindner’s work is expressionistic when compared
to a Warhol Campbell’s soup can. His paintings are peopled with aggressive
men and lurid women. Lindner is an important mid 20th-century artist,
and UGA students will appreciate this catalogue. Cost: $295
Tamara De Lempicka: Catalogue Raisonne, 1921-1979
Tamara De Lempicka (1898-1980) was born in Poland and moved to Paris,
where she had a successful career as a painter. Her images are realistic
portraits of stylish men and women of the 1920s and 30s. Students
are still interested in her accomplishments, and this catalogue will provide
insight into her complete output. Cost: $295
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1928-2000: Catalogue Raisonne
This catalog of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an important 20th-century
Austrian painter, would supplement our holdings in European modernism.
Hundertwasser’s work includes painting and architecture in a decorative
manner, strongly influenced by the Art Nouveau movement. Cost: $500
Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: Catalogue Raisonne Des Dessins
Antoine Watteau was an 18th-century French rococo artist whose charming
and graceful paintings show his interest in theater and ballet. Watteau
is probably best known for his ‘fetes galantes.’ These are romantic
and idealized scenes depicting elaborately costumed ladies and gentlemen
at play in fanciful outdoor settings. This collection of his complete
drawings will be an important research tool for students and faculty.
Cost: $850
Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonne, Volumes 1: 1883-1912, 2: 1913-1918,
3: 1919-1922,
4: 1923-1926 and 6: 1931-1933
Paul Klee, a Swiss artist of early 20th century, is a major figure
in the world of European Modernism. His paintings reflect the modern
artists’ concern with color, the unconscious and the naïve.
His paintings are gently lyrical and colorfully brilliant. The five
volumes of this catalogue would be very important for UGA’s student research
needs. Cost: $1,600
Project: Electronic Databases – One Time Cost
Most electronic resources require an on-going commitment, but
a few can be purchased as one-time items by segments.
Past Master Collection: Includes works and/or correspondence of noted
philosophers (50 titles now available) and English Letters titles (8 currently
available).
Examples of these works are given below:
Aristotle: Complete Works $600
Descartes: Oeuvres
$1,500
Plato: Coll. Dialogues
$600
Hegel: Werke II
$1,500
Tennyson: Letters
$600
Acquinas: Coll. Works $1,590
Kierkegaard: Journals
$710
Coleridge: Coll. Letters $1,600
Hegel: OUP Transl.
$990
Dickens: Letters
$2,200
Pope: Correspondence
$1,000
Dewey: Works
$2,500
Hardy: Collected Letters $1,400
The Romantic Age
$3,600
Project: J. C. Hyde Oral History
The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research
and Studies, the Trust for Public Land and the Georgia Center are working
together to produce a documentary on Mr. J. C. Hyde.
Mr. J. C. Hyde, a 92-year-old retired mule farmer,
resides in a 1840s log cabin. The cabin is located on Mr. Hyde's 120-acre
farm along the Chattahoochee River in Cobb County - property he has lived
on since his father purchased it from the First National Bank of Marietta
in 1920. Mr. Hyde and his brother, Buck, farmed the land until Mr.
Hyde's retirement a few years ago. (Buck died in 1987).
Mr. Hyde and his brother promised their father that
they would always keep the land, as long as someone in the family was able to farm it. After Buck's death, inheritance
taxes on his riverfront farm required Mr. Hyde to pay over $500,000 to
the IRS. Mr. Hyde, however, did not have nearly enough funds to pay
the taxes. The Trust for Public Land stepped in and offered Mr. Hyde
the option of selling forty acres to the Trust for inclusion in the Chattahoochee
National Recreation Area, part of the National Park Service. The
Trust was able to strike a deal with Mr. Hyde, and now Mr. Hyde retains
use of the land until his death, when a portion of the property will be
turned over to the Trust and preserved as a part of the recreation area.
Surrounded by the shopping malls and upscale urban
development of Marietta, Mr. Hyde is the last farmer who maintains his
own land in Cobb County. Through videotaped oral history interviews
with Mr. Hyde, the Russell Library would like to document Mr. Hyde's life
and work as a mule farmer throughout the twentieth century. Some
of the topics that we would like to discuss with Mr. Hyde include:
Logistics:
Interviewer:
The Russell Library has contacted a Ph.D. candidate in agricultural history
from the University of Georgia’s History Department who will
conduct the oral history
interviews with Mr. Hyde.
Location of interviews: The interviewer will travel to Mr. Hyde’s home in Cobb County.
Length of interviews: We expect to interview Mr. Hyde over a period of 2 to 3 days, for about 2 to 3 hours per day.
Access to interviews:
The interviews will be videotaped and made available to researchers at
Mr. Hyde’s discretion (through signed release) at the Russell
Library and through Inter-Library
Loan (to researchers at universities and other institutes of study in the
United States). Videotapes of the interviews will
also be available at the
Russell Library.
Cost: $4,000 (remaining)
Project: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution
through the Civil War
(Microfilm) University Publications of America: The Libraries
owns most of Parts A-J. Now, series K-N are available, along with
cataloging records. The cost to complete our holdings is approximately
$138,000, but individual segments may be purchased for $2,000 to $11,000
each.
Example: Series N
– Selections from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
These plantation diaries document slave work, punishment, food, clothing,
births, illnesses and deaths, as well as records of cotton and corn produced
and the management by overseers. There is also information about a yellow
fever epidemic in 1853 that devastated the region.
Cost: 20 reels of microfilm, $3,310
Example: Series K – Selections
from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library
The Shirley Plantation Collection, 1650-1888
The Shirley Plantation collection comprises the papers of multiple generations
of a preeminent James River plantation family, the Carter's of Shirley
plantation. The collection covers personal, family and plantation
life at Shirley, as well as naval history, the Civil War, religion, politics,
agriculture,
business, medicine and more. Slavery is a prominent and recurring
topic: there are records of births, deaths, illnesses and infractions,
including running
away. Financial records detail the changing markets for tobacco and
other plantation products over 100 years. There are notations of
troop movements
and military incidents along the James River during the Civil War.
Cost: 26 reels of microfilm, $4,330
Project: Caribbean History and Culture
Library acquisitions of Caribbean materials has traditionally
been limited, owing to less emphasis on teaching and research of this world
area at the UGA campus in the past. More recently, new classes and
faculty interests have created a demand to go beyond the modest allocations
for this area. The varied geopolitical background of the Caribbean
results in a group of publications from various islands and in various
languages. Documentary and feature films on videos and local music
on the region are also increasingly available. Local interests are
not concentrated on one particular region, for example, the Spanish-speaking
islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, but rather spread
out to include examination of island nations like Jamaica, Trinidad and
Tobago, and Barbados, or even the American territory of the U. S. Virgin
Islands. Interest in the Caribbean can cross various departments
such as History, Women’s Studies, African-American Studies, Anthropology,
Romance Languages, English, etc. The Caribbean’s diaspora populations
of Asian groups has also drawn increased research attention that speaks
to new emphasis on the study of multicultural societies. Private
funding would permit an intense acquisitions project of a variety of books,
videos and music compact discs that would strengthen library resources
for the Caribbean. Cost: $1,000 - $5,000
Project: Audio Workstation
An audio workstation would provide researchers physical access
to the audio materials. The Russell Library has a strong collection
of oral histories that complement our collection.
The equipment is vital if the Russell Library is to preserve adequately
the audio materials, while still making them accessible to researchers;
for example, creating master copies and user copies. Cost: $7,500
Project: Papers of the NAACP
(Microfilm) University of Publications of America: The Libraries
owns most of Parts 1-9. Now, Parts 10-30 are available, along with
cataloging records.
The cost to complete our holdings is approximately $206,000, but individual
segments may be purchased for $1,000 - $10,000 each.
Project: 1930 Census on Microfilm
The 1930 Census for selected southeastern states: Price varies
from a few thousand to more than $10,000 per state.
Alabama $8,466
Missouri $2,652
Arkansas $4,624
N.C.
$7.786
Florida $ 4,352
S.C.
$4,828
Georgia $10,608
Tennessee $7,582
Kentucky $ 2,550
Texas
$4,318
Louisiana $ 6,494
Virginia $6,052
Maryland $ 1,360
West Va. $2,482
Mississippi $ 6,630
Project: FBI Files
(On prominent individuals and organizations) (Microfilm) Scholarly
Resources: The Libraries owns 34 of 58 files published to date. The
cost to complete our holdings is approximately $13,390.
Project: Georgia Newspaper Project
The University of Georgia Libraries has been microfilming Georgia
newspapers since the early 1950s. The Georgia Newspaper Project is
part of the U.S. Newspaper Program, run by the National Endowment for the
Humanities with assistance from the Library of Congress, which coordinates
the efforts of all state newspaper projects. The goal of the U.S.
Newspaper Program is to locate, catalog and preserve on microfilm newspapers
published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present.
To date, the Georgia Newspaper Project has microfilmed at least one newspaper
title from every county in Georgia in which newspapers were ever published.
More than 2,500 titles altogether have been filmed, including over 200
current newspapers that continue to be filmed on an ongoing basis.
To support this ongoing effort, the following replacement equipment
is needed:
Paper Cutter - Factory Express, Inc.
Cost: $142.00Densitometer - Model 301
Cost: $1,275.00Splicer - Ultrasonic Film Splicer Model 5001
Cost: $2,195.00Duplicator - Systematic 100L
Cost: $13,843.00
Project: Civil War Unit Histories
(Microfiche) University Publications of America: The Libraries
owns histories for Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi. Others
may be purchased individually as regional collections: Confederate States
($13,360); New England ($15,620); Mid-Atlantic ($21,640); West ($23,810);
Independent Commands ($7,960)
Project: Outsourcing the Cataloging of Scores
Approximately 9,000 titles of printed music scores at the Music
Library form a core of important resources for study and performance by
scholars in the fields of music and interdisciplinary humanistic or social
science research. There is currently no online access to these materials
through UGA’s GIL catalog. This makes discovery and use of the materials
extremely difficult. Shelf browsing, which requires the scholar’s
physical presence in the facility, is presently the only means of access
to these materials. The Music Library scores comprise in large measure
the canon of Western music, which in turn forms the core of the UGA Libraries’
scores collections.
There is currently insufficient staff to catalog this collection,
so the bulk of the work must be outsourced. A vendor with sufficient
professional library skills and music background has been identified.
The UGA Libraries will provide pre- and post-processing, including shelf
number assignment and binding. The vendor will provide MARC metadata records
following UGA Libraries standards in the GIL catalog.
Benefits: Once the project is completed, scholars will be able
to search for scores at the Music Library with the same ease with which
they may now search for similar materials at the Main Library -- from their
home computers, offices, dormitories or within campus buildings.
They will be able to see what editions are held and what holdings the UGA
Libraries have for a given title and edition. If copies of a given
edition are held both at the Main and Music libraries, they will be able
to select the closer facility.
Binding of the materials, which is slated to be part of the project,
will help to preserve the scores for many years to come. Music scores
tend to receive more physically damaging use than conventional print materials,
since those used in performance require that the players mark the scores
in pencil, at least lightly.
Cost: $25,000 per year for 3 years
For further information, please contact:
Chantel Dunham
Director of Development
University Libraries
(706) 542-0628
cdunham@uga.edu