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New Look for GIL-Find Catalog

Submitted by Kristin on

On May 21, we'll be updating the interface for the GIL-Find library catalog.

Changes include:

  • Simpler, cleaner interface for both desktop and mobile devices
  • Email, save, print, format citations, and export to EndNote or RefWorks directly from a search results list
  • More sophisticated filtering options
  • User-added tagging

As always, ask a librarian if you have questions.

Juliette Gordon Low travel journal available online  

Submitted by cleveland on

Juliette Gordon Low’s 1908 India travel correspondence is now available online via the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/jglowc_search.html. The collection, Juliette Gordon Low Correspondence, Series India Letters, belongs to Girl Scouts of the USA and is housed at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace.

UGA Libraries - Information for Graduating Students

Submitted by MaryP on

Congratulations on your upcoming graduation!

Before leaving campus, please check your library account and clear all outstanding obligations:

  • Return all books and/or other library materials (including GIL Express and Interlibrary Loan) before leaving campus even if they are not due.
  • Pay all fines and fees by cash, check, or credit card.

If you have any questions about your library account, please contact:

Access Services – Main Library
Phone: 706.542.3256
Email: maincirc@uga.edu

A Conversation Between Sheffield Hale and Wayne Flynt –The Authentic Harper Lee: Letters and Stories from a Quarter-Century Friendship

Submitted by cleveland on

Wayne Flynt, professor emeritus in the department of history at Auburn University, is the author of eleven books, and one of the most recognized and honored scholars of Southern history, politics, and religion. His latest, published in 2017, is Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee. He has also published his memoir Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives, in which he writes about his experiences in the Civil Rights movement.

Libraries’ Tech Named UGA Student Employee of the Year

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Tyler Ortel, a student audiovisual technician in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives, was awarded first place in the UGA Student Employee of the Year Awards, sponsored by the Career Center and Office of Student Affairs. 

Ortel, an entertainment and media studies major in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, has been employed by the Brown Media Archives for almost two years, and he has completed digitization of hundreds of hours of film, audio, and videotape in that time. This work includes inspecting archival materials to assess the condition, performing minor conservation treatments when necessary, and playing the materials on analog playback machines connected to specialized converters and adapters to capture preservation-quality digital signals. 

Special Private Press exhibit in honor of Muldoon visit

Submitted by cleveland on

Friday evening, Irish poet Paul Muldoon will give a free public reading and musical performance at the 40 Watt Club to close the year-long 30th anniversary celebration of the UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.



Earlier in the day, the Hargrett Library will host a display of books of poetry from its private press collection including Encheiresin Naturae, an edition of Paul Muldoon’s crown of sonnets written to accompany the wood engravings by Barry Moser.

Hargrett From the Vault

Submitted by cleveland on

This one-day exhibit June 2 will highlight some of the more fragile and rare items held by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Some of the items include: Babylonian clay tablets, 17th-century Persian manuscript of the Mathnawi, Reed Creek collection of Dahlonega gold coins, original Constitution of the Confederate States of America, list of Georgia settlers recorded by the Trustees for Establishing the Colony, and a 1489 edition of St. Augustine's De civitate dei.

The materials will be in the Hargrett Galleries 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Also, enjoy a “sneak-peek” of the upcoming exhibitions War of Words a look at propaganda posters from the First World War.

Parking is available in the Hull Street Deck.

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