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P. Toby Graham Director, Digital Library of Georgia tgraham@uga

Georgia History & Culture Online: Digital Library of Georgia and Georgia HomePLACE. GOLD/GALILEO Annual Users Group Conference Center for Continuing Education – University of Georgia August 1, 2008. P. Toby Graham Director, Digital Library of Georgia tgraham@uga.edu.

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P. Toby Graham Director, Digital Library of Georgia tgraham@uga

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  1. Georgia History & Culture Online: Digital Library of Georgia and Georgia HomePLACE GOLD/GALILEO Annual Users Group ConferenceCenter for Continuing Education – University of GeorgiaAugust 1, 2008 P. Toby GrahamDirector, Digital Library of Georgia tgraham@uga.edu Edward A. JohnsonDirector, Georgia HomePLACE ed.johnson@usg.edu

  2. DLG overview • Building a seamless virtual library on Georgia history and culture • 105 digital collections • 60 repositories • 100 agencies of state government • About a 800,000 digital objects • Much more to do . . . http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu

  3. New sites (FY08): Partners: Hall County Library and Walter J. Brown Media Archives URL: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/georgiamarble Film and still images related to America’s 5th deadliest tornado Reference source on Ga. gov’t, 1922-1990 About 28K pages of content URL: http://www.gastatregister.org Converted as part of the Georgia Government Publications initiative

  4. New sites (FY08) – Georgia HomePLACE: Partner: Columbus Public Library, Chattahoochee Valley Regional Library System http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cla Minute books documenting the origin and initial development of the Columbus Public Library

  5. New Sites (FY08) – Georgia HomePLACE: Phase 2: Adds online exhibition Partners: Hall County Library and Walter J. Brown Media Archives URL: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/tornado Film and still images related to America’s 5th deadliest tornado

  6. New Sites (FY08): Dates: 1893-1999 Extent: About 40K pp. Used to demonstrate a relatively low-cost in-house process for newspaper digitization and delivery http://www.libs.uga.edu/redandblack

  7. Coming Soon – Georgia HomePLACE: Dates: 1826-1908 Extent: About 50K pp. Part of newspaper digitization pilot/study conducted as part of Georgia HomePLACE

  8. Georgia Government Publications: Georgia’s online state documents repository, 1994-present 37,000 documents Added 3,705 new publications to GGP in FY08, including 42,714 scans Department of Education annual reports being added retrospectively

  9. Georgia Newspaper Project: • Generated 4,207 reels in FY07 • Equals approximately 3.78M pages of newsprint • Film 220 current newspaper titles on an ongoing basis

  10. Virtual library on the Movement • Draws together related digital collections from 90 institutions into a common Web portal • WSB and WALB television news archives • Curricular support materials developed by USG faculty and students • http://www.civilrightslibrary.org

  11. New Georgia Encyclopedia: • Maintenance phase with all core-content in-hand 2,000 articles 5,500 images, audio files, moving images NEH metadata project with DLG CRDL/DLG partnership: Civil Rights articles

  12. Visit the Digital Library of Georgia! http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu and Civil Rights Digital Library http://civilrightslibrary.org

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