The Georgia Blue Book

Karen Minton, GALILEO Support Services, sent this announcement : Georgia Official and Statistical Register: "Georgia’s Blue Book," a new resource from the Digital Library of Georgia has been added to the GALILEO demo system and is available for your preview at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statregister/.


The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce its newest Web resource: Georgia Official and Statistical Register: “Georgia’s Blue Book.”

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register, published from 1923-1990 by the Georgia Department of Archives and History, is commonly known as the Georgia Blue Book.

The 1989-1990 volume was the last published volume. Considered an important reference work for historical research, the Register covers Georgia’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, providing biographical sketches of elected and other state officials.

Georgia members of U.S. Congress and federal judges are included, as are county officials and regents of the university system.

The Blue Books contain election returns, provide basic reference data on Georgia counties, and cover Georgia miscellany, such as the state flag, state flower, state song, rosters of Georgia governors, and legal holidays.

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register site is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as a part of the Georgia Government Publications program.

The Register is full-text searchable and is available in JPG, PDF and DjVu versions.