Augusta frozen in time

Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.) consists of 86 Glass plate negatives and positive prints of African-Americans in the Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia area.

Robert E. Williams, an African-American photographer, operated a studio, R. Williams and Son, in Augusta, Georgia, from 1888 until around 1908.

The photographs depict dwellings and domestic chores, rituals of baptism, harvesting and transporting cotton, vehicles and transportation, and children and family life.

84 of the images are presented online, as two of the negatives are copies.

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.

Over 9000

There are over 9000 references to African American in the NMTC netLibrary collection of over 40,000 titles.

You can get to the NMTC netLibrary electronic books three ways -

1. use the NMTC library catalog
2. GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
......Jump to N
,,,,,,,select netLibrary
3. directly go to netLibrary

You will need to create a free account (directions on how to create a free account) on campus or through NMTC GALILEO.

Hail to the Chief

The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. The goal of the project is to make these resources readily and freely available to students, educators, and adult learners throughout the world.

Listen, watch, and read.

Advisement week

In preparation for early registration on Tuesday, February 27, this week is designated for advisement

Talk to your program advisor to see what you need to do next to be successful in your program.

Not just for Native Americans

This database of primary sources is not just about the Native Americans.Do a search on African American. Letters to and from and about are included!

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, and the LaFayette-Walker County Library. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.


GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to S
.........Southeastern Native American Documents

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.

Free at last

From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston (F 391 H79 P 73 1993) by Patricia Smith Prather and Jane Clements Monday tells the story of a black man who never forgot his roots in slavery as he helped bring up the black community.

Joshua Houston was taught to read by his owner.
Joshua Houston was trusted to make business decisions while his owner was away.
Joshua Houston was allowed to keep the money he earned.
Joshua Houston was freed by his master in 1862- the year Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation.
Joshua Houston valued his education and the trade he had been taught (blacksmithing).

Read about this remarkable man and the contributions he and his family made to the South. They valued education above all. An education and a trade would truly free a person from manual labor.

Hearts, flowers and true love

Sort of depressing to do a Quick Search in GALILEO using the term Valentines Day and the first results in LexisNexis are on infidelity:

Infidelity Experts 4th Annual Valentines Day Infidelity Awareness Campaign Yearbook of Experts (R) News Release Wire 2007-01-17 Description: Wednesday, 1086 words

Hope your true love is faithful.

GALILEO
...search in Quick Search

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.

Beginning the third millennia

Black History Month Spotlight

"Britannica's Guide to Black History presents a vast array of articles, hundreds of images, and a wide assortment of multimedia clips.

This guide traces two millennia of black history, and the browse features enable you to pinpoint the central people, places, topics, and events covered in Black History.

During February the Featured Spotlight: Guide to Black History Month
can be found in the lower right hand corner of the Encyclopedia Britannica Home Page

Access this Spotlight and others
by clicking on the Spotlight Archive
at the bottom right side of the Home Page


GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Encyclopedia Britannica

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.

How do I find.....

Short (under 3 minutes) instructional videos are being created to help you find information. Check out the How Do I Find offerings!

Happy Birthday, Georgia!

Georgia Day celebrates the founding of the colony of Georgia in Savannah, 1733!

Where did they go?

Vanishing Georgia (found in GALILEO and TheDigital Library of Georgia) comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history.

The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs and professionals, includes, but is not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes.

The wide variety of the collected visual images results from efforts by archivists from the Georgia Division of Archives and History who sought, between 1975 and 1996, to preserve Georgia's endangered historical photographs.

Designed primarily for preservation, the project located, selected, and copied historically significant photographs held by individuals who wanted to share their pieces of the past with future generations.

The Georgia Archives joins with the Digital Library of Georgia to present the Vanishing Georgia images as a digital resource. Support for the project is provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered through Georgia HomePLACE

Do a search using the term African-American. 97 pictures are retrieved.

Some truths

too painful or too likely to provoke,
can be spoken only when the listener has been disarmed by laughter.

In GALILEO check the "Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: The Clifford H. Baldowski Collection at the Richard B. Russell Library contains 6,740 pen and ink drawings and 2,460 velox. The digital database opens with approximately 2,500 cartoons from the collection. Clifford H. Baldowski, known by the pen-name "Baldy," depicted the local, national, and international news of his day in the editorial pages of the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta Constitution. His work is a rich source for those studying political reorganization in Georgia and the growth of Atlanta as well as the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the Vietnam conflict, Middle East tensions, and Watergate."

Doing a search using the terms black or civil rights will bring up cartoons that made folks think when they were first published. These cartoons will still make the reader think.

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.

Alonzo Herndon

Carole Merritt wrote the first biography of the Herndon family, The Herndons: An Atlanta Family (F294 .A853 H476 2002). Who were they? Why should a biography have been written about them?

Are you familiar with Atlanta Life Insurance? This company was founded by Alonzo Herndon in 1905, just 40 years after his emancipation from slavery. Obviously the company has prospered in the 102 years of its existence.

Be inspired by the Herndons, an Atlanta family.

Connecticut pictures?

This has nothing to do with Georgia but does tie nicely with yesterdays post about what to do with your pictures:


KILLINGLY [Connecticut]— The Killingly Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. will publish a second pictorial history of the Town of Killingly. The book will cover the mills, schools, churches, cemeteries, buildings, businesses, and people at work and play.

The society needs photographs to use in the publication and would like to borrow your pictures. The pictures will be returned after copies are made for the book. The group will accept photos through Saturday, March 10.

The Killingly Historical Center at 196 Main St. in Danielson will open from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 13 to drop off photos:
The historical center will also be open during regular hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Contact Marilyn Labbe at 564-3657, Lynn LaBerge at 774-5364, or the Killingly Historical Center 779-7250 for more information.

From the February 6, 2007 edition of the Norwich Bulletin.

There are museums, libraries and genealogy societies who are searching for just the snapshot you have stashed away. It's almost time for Spring cleaning-

Mid-century life and times

Black History Society Photograph Collection Information

"The collection of photographs documents African American life in Gainesville and Hall County Georgia during the 20th century, with a focus on the 1940s and 1950s. The photographs depict community leaders, businesses, educational institutions, churches, and civic organizations that played a significant role in the Gainesville and Hall County African American community."


This collection of pictures can be found several ways -
1. in the Digital Library of Georgia
2. Hall County, Georgia Photograph and Genealogy Collections
3. GALILEO, Digital Library of Georgia

What story do your pictures tell? Do you have mid-century photos that reflect your culture and heritage? There might be a library or museum doing a collection of the time and place captured by your images.

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.

Over 100

An Advanced Search for African American and electronic books in our library catalog turned up over 100 items.

Limiting the search to African American and speech and electronic books found 6 items.

The one that intrigued me was Lift every voice[computer file] : African American oratory, 1787-1900 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham. The speeches begin in 1787.

We have over 40,000 titles in NetLibrary.
There are three ways to get to netLibrary:
1. Through the NMTC catalog, limiting the advanced search to EBK
2. Through GALILEO , use the find a database box, typing in NetLibrary
3. Going to NetLibrary online

You must create a free account to use NetLibrary off campus. There are two ways to access the create a free account link-
1. On campus use the catalog, select an EBK, click on the URL to get to the book in NetLibrary- upper right hand corner (in teeny tiny print) select Create a Free Account.
2. Off campus go through GALILEO

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.

Who's afraid of a shadow?

Will winter last another six weeks?
Will spring arrive early?

Check with your favorite prognosticator - at Groundhog Central

Sweet Auburn

In GALILEO you'll find the Auburn Avenue Research Library Finding Aids database which consists of guides to archival and manuscript collections held by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History, a special library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System.

The library's primary source materials document the experiences of African-Americans in Atlanta, the Southeastern region, and throughout the nation.

Listening

There are reference podcasts from the government. Listen and learn.

Title IX

The Section 504/ADA Coordinator and the Title IX Coordinator is Ms. Cheri Mattox, Room 200-A, 770-975-4099

Did you ever wonder what Title IX was? Check out The U.S. Department of Labor: Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 for the whole story.