The North Metro Technical College G.O.A.L. winner is Femi Obanor.
Congratulations, Femi!
Friday, March 16, 2007
Pandora
Pandora: Yearbook of the University of Georgia from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library is now available in the GALILEO demo system.
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Wouldn't you like to know how the all male school selected Pandora (In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents; Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, Hermes persuasion, and so forth. Hence her name: Pandora, "all-gifted" ) as the name of their yearbook?
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Since 1886, the Pandora has been the yearbook of the University of Georgia. Starting as a publication of the fraternities, the Pandora combined facts, photography, cartooning and humor (of varying quality) to provide an annual record of University activities. Its serious and satirical articles both provide interesting historical details about student life on campus and in Athens.
This initial offering provides scans of the first few years published, 1886-1899, volumes 1-12. Volumes were not published for 1889 and 1891.
Later volumes will be added over time.
The Pandora site is a partnership between the Digital Library of Georgia and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Wouldn't you like to know how the all male school selected Pandora (In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents; Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, Hermes persuasion, and so forth. Hence her name: Pandora, "all-gifted" ) as the name of their yearbook?
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Since 1886, the Pandora has been the yearbook of the University of Georgia. Starting as a publication of the fraternities, the Pandora combined facts, photography, cartooning and humor (of varying quality) to provide an annual record of University activities. Its serious and satirical articles both provide interesting historical details about student life on campus and in Athens.
This initial offering provides scans of the first few years published, 1886-1899, volumes 1-12. Volumes were not published for 1889 and 1891.
Later volumes will be added over time.
The Pandora site is a partnership between the Digital Library of Georgia and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
A tip of the hat
Savannah will be having their annual St. Patrick's Day parade this weekend. The core city hasn't changed much in its lifetime.
You can compare pictures from today (Google search images) with historic photos by George N. Barnard.
Barnard's Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign, 1866 contains images of the 61 albumen prints found in early American photographer and member of the Matthew Brady studio, George N. Barnard's 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign. Barnard was the official photographer for the United States Army, Chief Engineer's Office, Division of the Mississippi and accompanied Sherman's Army during the "March to the Sea" in November and December, 1864. Early in 1865 Barnard photographed Savannah, Georgia, and Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina. In 1866 he returned to the South to continue documenting the war and its effects. Subjects of the photographs include Sherman and his generals, Nashville, Chattanooga Valley, Atlanta, and Savannah. The images were digitized from an 1866 Wynkoop & Hallenbeck edition owned by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia.
The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.
You can compare pictures from today (Google search images) with historic photos by George N. Barnard.
Barnard's Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign, 1866 contains images of the 61 albumen prints found in early American photographer and member of the Matthew Brady studio, George N. Barnard's 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign. Barnard was the official photographer for the United States Army, Chief Engineer's Office, Division of the Mississippi and accompanied Sherman's Army during the "March to the Sea" in November and December, 1864. Early in 1865 Barnard photographed Savannah, Georgia, and Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina. In 1866 he returned to the South to continue documenting the war and its effects. Subjects of the photographs include Sherman and his generals, Nashville, Chattanooga Valley, Atlanta, and Savannah. The images were digitized from an 1866 Wynkoop & Hallenbeck edition owned by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia.
The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.
Kind words
The NMTC librarian has been noticed by the "big dogs" in the library world- thank you.
netLibrary Tutorial on YouTube
Kudos to the North Metro Technical College Library in Acworth, Georgia which has posted a 2:32 video on creating a free account for netLibrary. That's the one that caught the attention of people at OCLC this morning, but NMTC Library has eight DIY videos posted to YouTube. They are all about two and a half minutes long and follow the same pattern..."How do I find....?" and cover tools to create citations to how to find print materials.
This isn't the only innovative thing the library is doing...they have a wiki for policies and procedures, and a blog since May 2005......
netLibrary Tutorial on YouTube
Kudos to the North Metro Technical College Library in Acworth, Georgia which has posted a 2:32 video on creating a free account for netLibrary. That's the one that caught the attention of people at OCLC this morning, but NMTC Library has eight DIY videos posted to YouTube. They are all about two and a half minutes long and follow the same pattern..."How do I find....?" and cover tools to create citations to how to find print materials.
This isn't the only innovative thing the library is doing...they have a wiki for policies and procedures, and a blog since May 2005......
Monday, March 12, 2007
Numbers tell the story
Eugenia Price wrote Historical Fiction (The Savannah Quartet) that brought two real families who lived in Savannah and Bartow County in the 19th century to life. These reports fill out the stories with facts and figures detailing that time in Savannah.
Annual Reports of the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, 1855-1917
....(Majority of the reports are from 1881-1917)
"The annual reports of the Mayor of the city of Savannah Georgia for the years 1855-1917 include information on city activities and finances, commercial statistics, health, death, and illness statistics, and information on trade, public schools, weather, charitable institutions and city ordinances.
The documents also include reports of the City Attorney, the Police Department (including crime statistics), the City Engineer, the Fire Department (including statistics on fires and property losses), and the Board of Trade, among others."
The annual reports are from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries and were microfilmed in 1995 as part of the SOLINET/ASERL Cooperative Microfilming Project (NEH PS-20317). The images presented here were scanned from microfilm. This site currently contains only the holdings available on microfilm, but additional dates may be added in the future.
Database provider: GALILEO and The Digital Library of Georgia
Annual Reports of the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, 1855-1917
....(Majority of the reports are from 1881-1917)
"The annual reports of the Mayor of the city of Savannah Georgia for the years 1855-1917 include information on city activities and finances, commercial statistics, health, death, and illness statistics, and information on trade, public schools, weather, charitable institutions and city ordinances.
The documents also include reports of the City Attorney, the Police Department (including crime statistics), the City Engineer, the Fire Department (including statistics on fires and property losses), and the Board of Trade, among others."
The annual reports are from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries and were microfilmed in 1995 as part of the SOLINET/ASERL Cooperative Microfilming Project (NEH PS-20317). The images presented here were scanned from microfilm. This site currently contains only the holdings available on microfilm, but additional dates may be added in the future.
Database provider: GALILEO and The Digital Library of Georgia
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