{"id":48,"date":"2010-06-14T20:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T20:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=48"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T17:12:10","slug":"welcome-to-the-dlg-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the DLG B"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/id:dlg_vang_gly268-86\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47 size-medium\" title=\"gly268-86\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gly268-86-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of group witnessing a balloon ascension, Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia, ca. 1890\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gly268-86-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/gly268-86.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A balloon ascension: from the Vanishing Georgia Collection, courtesy of the Georgia Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?Welcome\">Digital Library of Georgia<\/a> (DLG) is excited to unveil its own blog. With over two hundred collections from sixty institutions, an ever increasing archive of <a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/MediaTypes\/Newspapers.html\">historic Georgia newspapers<\/a>, a public domain <a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/ggp\/\">repository of government publications<\/a>, and the ground breaking <a href=\"http:\/\/crdl.usg.edu\/\">Civil Rights Digital Library<\/a>, the DLG is large, diverse and truthfully a bit difficult to &#8220;grasp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DLG B attempts to increase the visibility of these valuable materials from Georgia\u2019s past, while also calling deserved attention to the institutions responsible for preserving\u00a0 them. A resource of this scope could not exist without the long term collaboration of state government, universities, archives, museums and public libraries (and the people powering them, of course).<\/p>\n<p>We hope to introduce the student, the scholar, and the simply curious to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/crdl\/id:ugabma_walb_walb00057\">profound<\/a> and the familiar-but-<a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/gastatefair\/id:gsf029\">perhaps-forgotten<\/a>. We also plan to keep you updated on new projects at the DLG, and to let you know when new resources are available.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; if you&#8217;d please &#8211; add us to your rss feed; share our posts when you&#8217;re inclined (yup, just click the &#8220;share&#8221; button right down there); visit us at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Athens-GA\/Digital-Library-of-Georgia\/108959499146418\">Facebook page<\/a>; keep one eye out for us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DigLibGA\">twitter<\/a>;\u00a0 and we promise to bring you the DLG that you have rarely seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The DLG is an initiative of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galileo.usg.edu\">GALILEO<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is excited to unveil its own blog. With over two hundred collections from sixty institutions, an ever increasing archive of historic Georgia newspapers, a public domain repository of government publications, and the ground breaking Civil Rights Digital Library, the DLG is large, diverse and truthfully a bit difficult to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to the DLG B&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9251,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/9251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}