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Finding Primary Documents

Explore the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) and its extensive collection of digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and more. Discover how DLG and other digital collections of primary documents can help with history research and learning.

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Finding Primary Documents

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  1. Finding Primary Documents The Digital Library of Georgia and Beyond

  2. The Digital Library of Georgia http://american-south.org http://crdl.usg.edu http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu

  3. About the Digital Library of Georgia • What’s in there? • Digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources. • How much is in there? • 1m digital objects, in 200 collections from 60 institutions and 100 government agencies • How did it get there? • Hard work, partners, sponsors Sandersville, early 1940s. Workers seen standing beside the diesel engine and generator used by the city to produce its own electricity, Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Archives

  4. Finding primary documents in DLG--browse or search; search within a specific collection

  5. Educator Resources

  6. Georgia Historic Newspapers

  7. The New Georgia Encyclopedia

  8. New Georgia Encyclopedia-For Educators

  9. Beyond Georgia

  10. How Digital Collections of Primary Documents Help Us • History –National, Local, Regional • Manuscripts • Maps • Newspapers • Photographs • Music/Media • Art and objects • Books • Scholarly literature • Learning objects

  11. Organizationally speaking… • National initiatives • Consortia • State library organizations • Individual libraries/museums/archives • Individuals/corporations

  12. National initiatives • Digital Public Library of America • http://dp.la • Library of Congress, American Memory • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html • Chronicling America • http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

  13. The Digital Public Library of America

  14. The Digital Public Library of America

  15. Europe • Europeana (EU sister to dp.la) • http://www.europeana.eu/ • Eurodocs • http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

  16. Regional • Documenting the American South • http://docsouth.unc.edu/ • Mountain West Digital Library • http://mwdl.org/ • Sometimes done by individual institutions, sometimes done collaboratively

  17. Consortia • The Sheet Music Consortium • http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/ • The HBCU Alliance Digital Collections • http://contentdm.auctr.edu/cdm/

  18. State agencies • Georgia Archives, Virtual Vault • http://vault.georgiaarchives.org • Florida Memory • http://www.floridamemory.com/ • Kentucky Digital Archive • http://kdl.kyvl.org/

  19. Universities, archives, museums, libraries • Cornell University • https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/digitalcollections • The Getty Research Institute • http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/digital_collections/ • David Rumsey Map Collection • http://www.davidrumsey.com/

  20. Where else to look? • Google! Considering the possible “homes” we’ve discussed • Internet Archive • ArchiveGrid • WorldCat (GALILEO, or free version)

  21. Internet Archive

  22. WorldCat and ArchiveGrid • WorldCat • www.worldcat.org • ArchiveGrid • http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/

  23. Thank you! Sheila McAlister, Director Digital Library of Georgia mcalists@uga.edu Russell Palmer, Asst. Director GALILEO Support Services russell.palmer@usg.edu

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