Previous Events

Funding from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) has supported the digitization of 4,000 hours of public media in the Peabody Awards Collection. These programs are being made accessible through the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB). Brown Media is asking your help to expand access to these historic programs by helping correct computer generated transcripts. AAPB transcriptathons enlist a virtual community of volunteer transcribers who help to correct the simple errors made in speech-to-text transcripts.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with the UGA Libraries at two student poetry readings.

The April 27 and 28 events will feature student poets from Stillpoint, UGA’s student literary magazine, and is hosted in conjunction with The Georgia Review, a nationally acclaimed literary-culture journal that is a unit of the Libraries.

The Russell Library is hosting a conversation with Atlanta Journal-Constitution senior reporter and former Washington correspondent Tamar Hallerman on April 8 as part of its annual Congress Week celebration.

Join the Institute for Women's Studies in celebrating Women's History Month with a virtual screening of Councilwoman. The film will be available to stream from Monday, March 29 - Friday, April 2, 2021. For more information, contact Terri at TLHAT@uga.edu.

This event series is sponsored by the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law.

Join the Institute for Women's Studies in celebrating Women's History Month with a virtual screening of Without a Whisper. The film will be available to stream from Monday, March 22 - Friday, March 26, 2021. Contact Terri at TLHAT@uga.edu for more info.

This event series is sponsored by the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law.

In 1961, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first Black students to enroll at the University of Georgia. Facing down adversity, they succeeded in desegregating the campus and winning a battle in the broader struggle for civil rights. However, the process of integration and building a more inclusive university continues today.

In this workshop, we will use a QGIS plugin to create a basic webmap that you can customize with Leaflet and share via Github pages or another web service. This workshop is for those with some experience with GIS.

Register to receive the Zoom link. Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2021).

Have you learned to use the basic functions of RefWorks? This class will go into advanced features of RefWorks, including tips and tricks learned by the instructor after 15 years of use. Question and answer session included for personalized help.

Register to receive the Zoom link. Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2021).

With over 32 million citations, PubMed provides extensive coverage of medicine, allied health, and the biological sciences. In this session, we’ll talk about how to construct your search, limit your retrieval to a manageable size, and what to do with your results.

Register to receive the Zoom link. Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2021).

Maximize your use of primary sources with GALILEO databases and other online sources. 

Register to receive the Zoom link. Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2021).