{"id":4579,"date":"2015-08-10T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:53:55","slug":"explore-georgia-government-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"Explore Georgia Government Publications!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the General Assembly of Georgia, Senate and House of Representatives, first session of the 1989-90 term (Picture Book), page 9.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Have you explored Georgia Government Publications?<\/p>\n

The Georgia Government Publications<\/a> database (GGP) \u00a0was developed in 1996 as GALILEO’s first digital conversion initiative and redesigned in 2009. It serves as a comprehensive digital repository of more than 60,000 born-digital publications and scanned print documents produced by Georgia state agencies published from 1994 to the present.<\/p>\n

Georgia state agencies are required by law to submit publications that they produce for the public to the official depository at the University of Georgia Libraries. These publications are all included in the GGP and include not only print and electronic formats but also posters, bookmarks, maps, videocassettes, CDs, and DVDs. Most of these documents are scanned images; however, with the passing of an amendment to the law (O.C.G.A. 20-5-2<\/a>) in 2000 requiring state agencies to submit publications in electronic format, a greater percentage of searchable pdf files are included in the database and are noted as electronic text. As previously noted, most of the images in the Georgia Government Publications database are from scanned sources and are not full-text searchable. However, there are also many born digital documents with full-text searchability. These documents are noted in the database as electronic text.<\/p>\n

In addition to archiving Georgia state publications from 1994 onward, the Georgia Government Publications database is currently adding pre-1994 serials on an ongoing basis; a list of those publications can be found at http:\/\/dlgmaint.galib.uga.edu\/ggp\/about\/<\/a>. Among the pre-1994 publications that have been added to the collection are the Picture Book, containing biographical information about Georgia’s state senators and state representatives (see a 1989 edition of the book here<\/a>), and the Department of Education Annual Report, which has detailed textual and photographic information surveying the education system in Georgia back to 1871 (A 1976 annual report is available here<\/a>). The Georgia Official and Statistical Register, 1923-1990<\/a>\u00a0is also a project of the GGP; it contains brief biographical sketches of state elected officials, federal and state Congressional members, election statistics, and provides information about state agency organization and administration.<\/p>\n

Two recent additions to the Georgia Government Publications database are:<\/p>\n