UGA Libraries News & Events » Special Collections http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog news and events from the UGA Libraries Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:40:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 Special Collections database will be unavailable Friday night http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9157 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9157#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:40:51 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9157 Beginning on Friday, October 17th, 2014 from 11:59PM  EDT to 4:00 AM EDT maintenance will be performed on the database server for UGA’s special collections. This is necessary to apply new updates to the server.

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Russell Library to Host Scholars & Policymakers Symposium Oct. 27-28 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9137 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9137#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:26:28 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9137 small40RBRLlogoATHENS, GA — The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies will host a scholars and policymakers symposium to celebrate the Library’s 40th anniversary year on Oct. 27-28, 2014 in the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

Richard Baker, US Senate Historian Emeritus, will kick off the symposium with a keynote address at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 27. On Tuesday, Oct. 28 scholars from a number of institutions will participate in panel discussions, highlighting their use of Russell Library collections in recent publications. Presenting scholars will include Chris Manganiello, Jason Sokol, Gregory Mixon, Tammy Ingram, Monica Gisolfi, Michelle Brattain, Thomas Okie, and Ashton Ellett. Panels will be organized around the Russell Library’s six key collecting areas: Politics, Social Relations, Public Good, Environment, Economy, Peace and War.

Featured policymakers will include Chris Carr, Commissioner of Economic Development, Michael Thurmond, former Labor Commissioner and current Superintendent of the DeKalb County School System, Abit Massey of the Georgia Poultry Federation, congressional staffers and others who will join the discussions, building on the historical context of the themes presented and adding commentary on the creation of related public policy and its oversight in light of current events.

The Russell Library, a department within the University of Georgia Libraries, serves as a center for research and study of the modern American political system. Established in 1974 through the efforts of the Richard B. Russell Foundation, the Georgia General Assembly, and the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, the Library’s original mission was to collect and preserve materials that document the life and career of the late Richard B. Russell, United States Senator from Georgia from 1933 to 1971.

“Our holdings document public policy as the product of public interests and a function of the political process at all levels, and demonstrate the breadth, the diversity—truly, the full spectrum of Georgia’s political and civic life for over a century,” said Russell Library director Sheryl Vogt. “We plan to host a program that focuses on conversations about politics and policy over time.”

The keynote address and all panel sessions for the Scholars and Policymakers Symposium are free and open to the public and will be held in the auditorium on the second floor of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. For a full schedule of events and speakers, visit rbrl40.weebly.com or contact Jan Hebbard at (706) 542-5788 or russlib@uga.edu.

Overview of Events Open to the Public:
All events will be held in the auditorium (Room 271) of Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries

Monday, October 27
3:30-4:15 p.m. – Pre-symposium Forum: Genesis and Development of Russell Library

6:00-6:15 p.m. – Welcome and Opening Remarks

6:15-7:00 p.m. – Keynote Address “Who the Heck is Walter George?”

8:30-10:00 p.m. — Film screening and panel discussion, Dean Rusk: At the Heartbeat of History

Tuesday, October 28
8:30-9:00 a.m. – Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00-10:30 a.m. — Panel Session: Politics of Public Good

10:45-12:15 p.m. — Panel Session: Politics of Social Relations

1:45-3:15 p.m. — Panel Session: Politics of Economy

3:30-5:00 p.m. — Panel Session: Politics of Environment

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Annual Parthemos Lecture Hosted at Special Collections http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9117 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9117#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:30:41 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9117 David MayhewThe Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia will host its annual Parthemos Lecture on October 15th from 3:30-5:00 in the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries, Room 271. This year’s invited speaker is Dr. David Mayhew.

Mayhew is one of the world’s leading authorities on Congress and American party politics. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of his landmark book, Congress: The Electoral Connection, which is one of the most widely read and cited books in political science. His other award-winning books include Divided We Govern (2005) and Partisan Balance: Why Political Parties Don’t Kill the U.S. Constitution (2011). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a member of the board of overseers of the National Election Studies of the Center for Political Studies, and has served as a Guggenheim Fellow, a Hoover National Fellow, a Sherman Fairchild Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. He received the Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association in 2004.

For more information about the event contact John Maltese at 706-542-2057

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Athens Science Cafe to Discuss Nutrition and Childhood Obesity Oct. 22 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9082 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9082#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:30:13 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9082 scicafe-logoATHENS, GA – University of Georgia foods and nutrition professor Caree Cotwright will speak about nutrition and childhood obesity at the October meeting of the Athens Science Café on Oct. 22 at Chase Street Elementary School. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m., and the event will start at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Science cafes are informal meetings commonly held in coffee shops, pubs or community centers where people have an opportunity to learn from and interact with a scientist. Unlike traditional lectures, science cafes involve more open discussion and debate among the audience.

For this event, organizers of the Athens Science Café decided to branch out from their traditional downtown venues. “While we typically hold our cafes at bars and coffeehouses, we welcome the occasional opportunity to develop community partnerships,” said ASC representative Stephanie Pearl. “ASC is excited about partnering with the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies and the Clarke County School District for this edition of the cafe.”

On Sep. 26 the Russell Library, a political archives at the University of Georgia, will open the new exhibition, “Food, Power, and Politics: The Story of School Lunch” examining the complicated history of the National School Lunch Program. “We approached the organizers of Athens Science Café about developing an event connected to the issues explored in this exhibit,” said lead curator Jan Levinson. “It seemed only fitting that a discussion about childhood nutrition should take place in one of our local schools.”

The event will take place in the cafeteria of Chase Street Elementary School. Cotwright will give a short introductory talk before leading an informal discussion among participants about nutrition and innovative interventions to combat the problem of childhood obesity. Healthy snacks will be generously provided by Heirloom Café and Fresh Market.

For more information about this event visit the Athens Science Café website at http://athenssciencecafe.wordpress.com or follow @AthScieCafe on Twitter. For more information about the new exhibit “Food, Power, and Politics: The Story of School Lunch” visit the Russell Library’s website at http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell or follow @RussellLibrary on Twitter.

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UGA observing Constitution Day http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9080 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9080#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:59:26 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9080 Personal letters of Abraham Baldwin and William Few, Georgia’s two signers of the U.S. Constitution, are on exhibit at the University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library in observance of Constitution Day, Sept. 17.

Few and Abraham Baldwin, who were close friends, were appointed as two of six state delegates to the Constitutional Convention, two of whom never attended and two others of whom did not stay for the duration.

This exhibition features original manuscripts and correspondence written by Few and Baldwin. The Hargrett Library owns more than 250 letters of William Few and his wife, Catherine, and their daughter Frances. These letters reveal much about his activities in the state of Georgia until he moved permanently to New York about 1800. Baldwin, the first president of The University of Georgia, is mentioned frequently in Catherine Few’s letters. The exhibit will be on display through September.

As the first president of UGA, Baldwin’s papers are located in the University Archives within the Hargrett Library. After being elected to the Georgia state legislature, he developed a comprehensive educational plan that ultimately included land grants from the state to fund the establishment of the University of Georgia (at the time also known as Franklin College) in Athens. Through Baldwin’s efforts, the state approved a charter for the University of Georgia in 1785. Baldwin served as the first president of the institution during its initial planning phase, from 1786 to 1801 when it was opened to students.

The Hargrett Library is part of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries at 300 S. Hull St.

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Research Round-up for National History Day http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9072 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9072#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:17:45 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9072 The University of Georgia Libraries will host a special National History Day Round-up Event on Saturday, October 11th from 1-4 p.m. in the Russell Special Collections Building located at 300 South Hull St. in Athens, Georgia. The event is designed to give students as well as their mentors and teachers assistance with locating, and using amazing and credible primary sources to create wonderful and winning National History Day Projects.

The event will begin with a showcase of some of the amazing range of sources available that support the 2015 theme, “Leadership and Legacy.” Following this there will be a session designed to help students find great topics and develop them for the competition. To wrap up the day, students will have opportunities to meet with archivists and librarians one-on-one to get personal assistance with research on their projects.

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Detailed schedule:

1-1:45 p.m. Welcome and introduction to UGA special collections and research
1:45-2 p.m. Break
2-2:45 p.m. Wrangling a great topic
2:45-3 p.m. Break
3-3:45 p.m. One-on-one project assistance
3:45-4 p.m. Wrap-up and questions

The event is free, but space is limited. Please call 706-542-5766, or email russlib@uga.edu to reserve space(s) at the event. For questions and more information, please contact Jill Severn at 706-542-5766 or jsevern@uga.edu

Parking is free on UGA surface lots and parking decks on Saturdays. For more information about directions and parking please visit: http://www.libs.uga.edu/scl/visit/maps.html

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Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: Talk on Thursday 18th http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9066 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9066#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:09:15 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9066 As part of its Fall Lecture Series, the University of Georgia Institute for African American Studies will host a talk on Thursday, September 18, 2014 to mark the publication of Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality.

Please join us at 4 PM at Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Auditorium (room 271), 300 S. Hull Street., as co-authors Dr. John Morrow, Franklin Professor of History at The University of Georgia and Jeffrey T. Sammons, Professor of History at New York University, discuss the storied African American combat unit that grew out of the 15th New York National Guard. As noted by Dr. Morrow, “The “Harlem Hellfighters” are the most famous African American fighting unit of World War I and compiled a record unmatched by any other Regiment in the American Expeditionary Forces.” Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War by Jeffrey Sammons and John Morrow is the definitive study of this famous regiment known to have “never lost a man to capture or a foot of ground.”

The program will also include a screening of William Miles’s acclaimed documentary “Men of Bronze,” in which the Regiment detail their experiences. A book signing and reception will follow.

Date: Thursday, September 18, 2014

Location: Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries Auditorium (Room 271), 300 S. Hull Street

For those of you who cannot attend the entire event, the schedule is as follows:

4:00–Welcome and introductions

4:15-5:15—screening of “Men of Bronze”

5:15-6:15—Authors John Morrow and Jeffrey Sammons on Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War

6:15-6:45– Q and A

6:45-7:15– book signing and reception

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Special Collections Libraries’ request system to be upgraded Friday http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9040 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9040#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:32:15 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9040 The AEON Request System at the Special Collections Libraries will be upgraded Friday, Aug. 29.

Researchers will not be able to request materials while the upgrade is ongoing. It is scheduled to take place at early as possible.

Materials requested ahead of time will remain in the reading room and will be available to researchers.

We apologize for any inconvenience and will expedite the upgrade as quickly as possible.

 

 

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DLG re-releases enhanced Athens Historic Newspapers Archive http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9034 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9034#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:48:33 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=9034 The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the re-release of the enhanced Athens Historic Newspapers Archive:

http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers

The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive is now compatible with all current browsers and provides access to nine newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1928 without the use of plug-ins or additional software downloads. Consisting of over 77,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date. The site will provide users with a view into the history of Athens in its early years as the home to the first state-chartered university in the nation and its eventual growth into the largest city in northeast Georgia.

The archive includes the following Athens newspaper titles: Athens Herald (1913-1923), Athens Banner-Herald (1923-1928), Southern Whig/Southern Herald (1838-1850), Clarke County Courier (1903-1913), in addition to the titles previously included in the archive: Athenian (1827-1832), Southern Banner (1832-1882), Southern Watchman (1855-1882), Daily/Weekly Banner-Watchman (1882-1889), Daily/Weekly Athens Banner (1889-1922).

The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia, as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative. The Digital Library of Georgia is a project of Georgia’s Virtual Library GALILEO and is based at the University of Georgia. Georgia HomePLACE is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Digitization is also made possible through a grant provided by the Francis Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc.

Other newspaper archives available through the Digital Library of Georgia include the Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive (1847-1922), the Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive (1819-1880), the South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (1845-1922), the Macon Telegraph Archive (1826-1908), the Columbus Enquirer Archive (1828-1890), the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive (1808-1920), the Southern Israelite Archive (1929-1986), and the Red and Black Archive (1893-2006). These archives can be accessed at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/MediaTypes/Newspapers.html

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“Vince Dooley: A Retrospective, 1954 -1988.” http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=8989 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=8989#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:48:19 +0000 http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/?p=8989 Vince Dooley and legendary Alabama Coach "Bear" Bryant

Vince Dooley and legendary Alabama Coach “Bear” Bryant

A look at former University of Georgia head football Coach Vince Dooley’s career opens Aug. 29 at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.

Photos, playbooks, original artwork by Bulldog favorite Jack Davis and commemorative items are among the memorabilia on display to celebrate Dooley’s status as one of the most successful college football coaches in “Vince Dooley: A Retrospective, 1954 -1988.” The items are from the archives of the UGA Athletic Association, housed at University Archives, a part of the special collections libraries.

Guided tours of the Dooley retrospective and the special collections galleries will be offered at 2 p.m. each Friday before home football games: Aug. 29, Sept. 19 and 26, Oct. 3 and 31, Nov. 14, 21 and 28.

Dooley’s last game, on Jan. 1, 1989, in the Gator Bowl against Michigan State, was his 201st victory. His final record as coach was 201 wins, 77 losses, and 10 ties. He also won six SEC titles and one national championship. At the time of his retirement, Coach Dooley had the third most wins of any active college football coach. He served as Athletic Director, a position he held since 1979, until retiring in 2004.

The most visible change Coach Dooley made to the Georgia program upon his arrival in Athens was to redesign the uniform. He replaced the older style Georgia uniform of a silver helmet, red jersey, and silver ‘britches’ with a more modern design of a red helmet with a black ‘G’ set against a white background, red home game jersey or a white away game jersey, and white pants. The silver britches would replace the white britches starting with the 1980 season. This look is, with only minor variation, the same uniform the Georgia team wears today and has become one of the most recognized symbols of the University of Georgia.

A fixture in Athens for 50 years, Dooley made his mark early on. On Sept. 18, 1965, Dooley, in his second season as a head coach, led the Bulldogs in an upset victory over the defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide, led by Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant. The Crimson Tide had not lost a regular season game since Nov. 30, 1963. Though the Bulldogs ended the 1965 season with a record of six wins and four losses, they were poised to win the Southeastern Conference Championship twice in the next three years.

In 1988, Dooley and his wife, Barbara, established the Dooley Library Endowment Fund with a personal gift of $100,000. Under his leadership, the fund raised more than $2.3 million.

“The breadth of his career is impressive, as is how successful he’s been in his endeavors both on and off the field,” said Jason Hasty of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library who curated the exhibit. “Just as impressive, though, is how committed he is to education, his own continuing education and intellectual pursuits and, through the Vincent J. Dooley Library Endowment Fund, supporting the education of others.”

“I have had the good fortune of university life for some 60 years, combing both my time at Auburn University and the University of Georgia,” Dooley has said. “This lengthy academic environment has given me a real appreciation of the joy of learning…”

Dooley holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history. In addition to several football-related books, Dooley has written a book about his well-known avocation, gardening.

“A coach is first and foremost a teacher,” according to Dooley,” and he must constantly strive to improve his teaching techniques.”

The Russell Special Collections Libraries are open free to the public Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays (except on home football gamedays) from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Parking is available in the adjacent Hull Street Deck.

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