Sunday, August 12, 2007
GALILEO & the Digital Library of Georgia
This week I have been researching the history of GALILEO and the Digital Library of Georgia. Georgia has been providing a library of licensed commercial databases since 1995. According to the GALILEO fact sheet, there has been in increase in logins , seaches, and articles displayed from 15 million in '95 to 50 million in 2006. The Digital Library is preserving Georgia's history and culture. In addition to researching the history of Georgia's Library system, I have been reading a few comparisons of statewide library systems and statewide database initiatives. GALILEO is one of the earliest and most comprehensive statewide library system. Ofcourse the challenge with maintaining the electronic resources is the increasing cost of resources, changing technologies, and limited funding.
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Don't miss the wonderful Georgia HomePLACE projects on the Digital Library of Georgia. More information from our LSTA plan evaluation:
Georgia HomePLACE (Providing Library and Archives Collections Electronically)
One of the best examples of partnership with other agencies is the Georgia HomePLACE project. The project director works closely with public libraries to identify and digitize historical materials unique to the state. Collections now available through the DLG, thanks to Georgia HomePLACE, include:
• Beauty in Stone. The online collection consists of two short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s-1960s that document the company's history, operations, skilled laborers and craftspeople, and the widespread use of their marble, limestone and serpentine products. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/georgiamarble
• The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s. The online collection consists of selected correspondence, financial records, contracts, and advertising materials from the Douglass Theatre's records in the Middle Georgia Archives' Charles Henry Douglass business records, and it documents the amusements available to Macon's African American population and the business dealings of this African American entrepreneur from 1912 to the 1930s. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/douglass
• Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987: Jim Alexander's Photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center from the Auburn Avenue Research Library consists of fifty-five documentary photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center (1975-1989) that capture significant African American-centered cultural and community events in and around the Atlanta-based organization, a brainchild of the late mayor Maynard Jackson. http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=anac
• The Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861 - 1862, held at the Troup County Archives, chronicles Cyrus Franklin Jenkins' experiences as an enlisted man in the Meriwether Volunteers, Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment, during the first year of the war, June 1861 to March 1862. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=jenk
• Early Walker County Papers. The selected documents are land grants, that include maps and survey reports, for a plots in Cherokee County, Georgia, granted between 1833 and 1835 and in 1843 and in 1845. These were added to the existing “Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842,” because they relate to the land lotteries that were associated with the Cherokee Removal from north Georgia. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/nativeamerican/institution/lafayettewalker
• Finding Aids for Archives and Manuscripts. Finding aids are descriptive inventories that provide information on both the contents and historical context of collections of archives and manuscripts. The Auburn Avenue Research Library Finding Aids presented here by the Digital Library of Georgia describe approximately 100 unique research collections, including personal papers, organizational records, oral histories, photographs, and audio-visual resources. http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/aafa.cgi?dbs=aafa&ini=aafa.ini
• For Our Mutual Benefit consists of a minute book, covering the years 1912-1920, from the Athens Woman's Club collection housed in the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library that documents the social, philanthropic and reform activities of the Athens Woman's Club during the height of the Progressive Era. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athenswomansclub
• Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library consists of forty turn-of-the-twentieth century Augusta-related picture postcards selected from the collection Augusta and Environs: Picture Post Cards in Color. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=hagp
• The Samuel Hugh Hawkins Diary, January - July 1877, donated by Georgia State Senator George Hooks to the Lake Blackshear Regional Library System, chronicles Americus, Georgia entrepreneur, lawyer, and banker Samuel Hawkins' financial, agricultural, civic, and religious activities in Sumter County during the final months of Reconstruction. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=hawk
• Sanborn® Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922 consists of 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133 municipalities. The Sanborn maps provide extremely detailed information about a town’s evolving built environment over time that has many uses in local history and genealogical research. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sanborn
• Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia. The online collection consists of eighty-four black-and-white photographs from the J.A. Jones Construction Company collection at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict the company’s World War II cargo ship building activities in its Brunswick, Georgia shipyard from 1943 to 1945. http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=vsbg
• "Thar's gold in them thar hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s, contains selected legal, financial, and promotional documents as well as photographs and picture postcards that represent episodes of renewed interest in gold mining in Lumpkin County during Reconstruction, at the turn of the century, and during the Depression from the Chestatee Regional Library System. http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=dahl
• Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. This online project is based on holdings of the Georgia Archives. http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=vang
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