{"id":7556,"date":"2020-06-10T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2020-06-09T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:17:14","slug":"digital-library-of-georgia-dlg-awards-three-competitive-digitization-service-grants-to-georgia-cultural-heritage-institutions-across-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=7556","title":{"rendered":"Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) awards three Competitive Digitization service grants to Georgia cultural heritage institutions across the state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ATHENS, Ga. &#8212; Three institutions are recipients of the seventh set of service grants awarded in a program intended to broaden partner participation in the DLG. The DLG solicited proposals for historic digitization projects in a statewide call, and applicants submitted proposals for projects with a cost of up to $7,500.00. DLG staff will provide free digitization, scanning, and hosting services so that more of Georgia\u2019s diverse history can be found online for free. This subgranting program was presented the 2018 Award for Excellence in Archival Program Development by a State Institution by the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council (GHRAC).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recipients and their projects include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lee County Library (Leesburg, Ga.)<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digitization of the Lee County Library Local History Collection which contains print material dating from 1784-2000 that includes church histories, local Lee County history, and documentation of the 1994 Southwest Georgia flood.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Saint Paul&#8217;s Church (Augusta, Ga.)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Description and hosting of the handwritten vestry minutes, parish and marriage registers, and commemorative materials of Saint Paul\u2019s Church, Augusta\u2019s oldest congregation founded in 1750.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Hargrett Library, University Archives<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digitization of the University of Georgia&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pandora<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> yearbooks dating from 1965-1974, which include the aftermath of desegregation, the beginnings of the black student, the women\u2019s liberation, the gay liberation, and the campus free speech movements.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preference in the selection process was given to proposals from institutions that had not yet collaborated with the DLG. Saint Paul\u2019s Church and the Lee County Library are both new partners for the DLG. Sheila McAlister, director of the Digital Library of Georgia notes: &#8220;Our latest slate of projects includes two new partners, a public library and a church archives. The projects document the history of Lee County, the activities of one of the oldest churches in Augusta, and student life at the University of Georgia during a period of enormous social change. With each new project, we\u2019re able to illuminate more of the state\u2019s history.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About the Lee County Library<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lee County Library is a public library serving the Lee County, Georgia area. Learn more on their website at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leecountylibrary.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leecountylibrary.org\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Saint Paul&#8217;s Church\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saint Paul\u2019s Church is a community of people committed to the service and worship of Jesus Christ in their current location for over 250 years.\u00a0 With their roots deeply embedded in the city of Augusta and the surrounding area they \u201cseek and serve Christ in all persons.\u201d\u00a0 They are also rooted in their Anglican (Church of England) heritage and are an integral part of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. Visit their web site at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintpauls.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.saintpauls.org\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Hargrett Library, University Archives<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University of Georgia Archives preserves over two centuries of the University&#8217;s history in the form of official records, images, plans, publications, and artifacts. Their mission is to acquire, organize, preserve, and publicize such materials and to assist researchers in their use. Visit them at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libs.uga.edu\/hargrett\/archives\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">libs.uga.edu\/hargrett\/archives\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Ga. &#8212; Three institutions are recipients of the seventh set of service grants awarded in a program intended to broaden partner participation in the DLG. The DLG solicited proposals for historic digitization projects in a statewide call, and applicants submitted proposals for projects with a cost of up to $7,500.00. DLG staff will provide &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=7556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) awards three Competitive Digitization service grants to Georgia cultural heritage institutions across the state&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,175,183],"tags":[46,45,573,572,440,348],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-dlg-collections","category-new-collections","category-new-partners","tag-athens-ga","tag-augusta-ga","tag-church-records","tag-leesburg-ga","tag-subgrants","tag-yearbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7557,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}