Georgia News
This October citizens of Georgia will be celebrating the merits of archives for the 11th year during Georgia Archives Month. Our theme for 2010 is “Travel Back in Time.” Now is the time to plan special events such as exhibits, tours, lectures, workshops, collection viewings, etc.
For further information or to advertise Georgia Archives Month at your institution, please retrieve the flyer. Help us publicize this important event by printing and posting this flyer. Let’s get the word out about the amazing treasures from the past that can be found at the archives in Georgia!
If you have any questions, please view our web site at http://soga.org/archivesmonth or contact Bridget Lerette, blerette@archatl.com, (404-987-2772) or Elaine DeNiro, edeniro@roswellgov.com, (770-594-6405).
UGA DIRECTOR RECEIVES GOVERNOR’S AWARD IN RECOGNITION OF HER CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE HUMANITIES
 Mary Ellen Brooks, director emerita of the University of Georgia’s Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, received the Governor’s Award in the Humanities May 11 in Atlanta. Brooks served 15 years as Hargrett Library’s director, during which time she introduced a wealth of material to Hargrett’s holdings across the humanities not limited to collections rich in natural history and performing arts. Brooks developed collections in Fine Printing, Small Press books, and Book Arts, making it the fifth largest of such collections nationally.
“Deeply knowledgeable about the collections, she has been a trusted advisor to many scholars doing research at the Library. Moreover, she is a frequent traveler around the state where she meets with community members in ‘documentary seminars’ that bring rare books, photos, letters, diary entries and other artifacts of Georgia’s past to life,” Gov. Sonny Perdue said. “Without her efforts in collecting, developing and sharing the insights held within the Hargrett, public understanding of Georgia and the South would be diminished.”
Carter Presidential Museum Wins Major National Awards
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, and Design and Production Incorporated have been awarded the 2009 Spotlight Award for Best Museum Audio Visual Project in the country. The award, given by PRO AV and ARCHITECT magazines, and InfoComm International, recognizes the best professional audio/video installations designed for corporate, education, entertainment, government, and other markets.
It is the second major national award given to the Carter Library of Atlanta Ga. for its innovative use of technology in its completely redesigned Presidential Museum. Last month, the American Association of Museums awarded the Carter Library its Bronze MUSE Award for outstanding achievement in museum media for The Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, and Building Hope Interactive Table. The MUSE awards celebrate scholarship, innovation, creativity and inclusivity and are presented to institutions or independent producers around the world which use digital media to enhance the museum experience and engage new audiences.
In selecting the Carter Library and Cortina Productions, the AAM judges said “Interactive software can teach. This table is proof: adults and children can travel around the world, engage in projects, help humankind, fight disease, without leaving the building. It is a complete learning experience—and the designers maintain an attractive interface—it works for children but also engages adults, there is a possibility to go deeper. Great example for new tools in museums.”
Library Director Jay Hakes added, "Our major goal with the new interactive displays and high-quality films was to make the museum experience enjoyable and educational for all ages. We've clearly accomplished that, so the two national awards are icing on the cake."
Design and Production Incorporated (Lorton, VA) was the prime contractor for the entire $10 million redesign project, in partnership with Gallagher & Associates (Silver Spring, MD), and media production provided by Cortina Productions (McLean, VA), GTOO Media (Silver Spring, MD) , and VanDerKloot Film & Television (Atlanta, GA).
The Smyrna Museum had a very special exhibit of its World War II collections at the Atlanta History Center over Memorial Day weekend. Also shown was Smyrna Historical Society member Patricia Burns’ new film The Lieutenant And The Cobb County Boys, based on over 20 video-taped interviews of World War II veterans from Smyrna and Cobb County. The interviews were conducted during 1999 and 2000.
New Collections
Georgia State University. The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) historic records are available for research at Georgia State University Library’s Southern Labor Archives, one year before the 30th anniversary of the strike that broke the union. President Ronald Reagan’s confrontation with PATCO in 1981 marked a turning point in U.S. labor relations. The records at the Southern Labor Archives are the largest PATCO collection available to researchers. These records provide insight into one of the most tumultuous and significant events in recent labor-management history.
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, formed in 1968 to represent the interests of federally employed air traffic controllers, survived as a union for only 14 years. Dissatisfied with their Federal Aviation Administration contract, PATCO members went on strike on August 3, 1981, though as federal employees it was illegal for them to do so. Subsequently, over 11,000 controllers were dismissed and the union was decertified.
According to Georgetown University historian Joseph McCartin, the PATCO records are uniquely revealing. “I have never seen a richer collection of union records in the field of U.S. labor history.”
The PATCO records, created and used by officers and staff at their national headquarters, detail the daily operations of the union and the administration of its regional and local offices. Collection highlights include records related to the 1981 strike; files from the offices of the President, Vice-Presidents, and Director; and publications. The collection consists of over 200 feet of material housed in over 450 boxes.
The Digital Library of Georgia and the Cuba Archives of the Breman Museum announce the expansion of the Southern Israelite
Archivehttp://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/israelite/
The Southern Israelite Archive now includes issues from 1959-1983, and spans the years 1929-1986, including over 48,000 images. Rabbi H. Cerf Straus established the Southern Israelite as a temple bulletin in Augusta in 1925. The publication was so popular, he expanded it into a monthly newspaper. Later in the decade, Straus sold the paper to Herman Dessauer and Sara B. Simmons, who moved the paper to Atlanta, where it began circulating state-wide and eventually throughout the South. In October of 1958, the paper was at the forefront of the coverage of the Temple bombing in Atlanta, giving its readers a unique first hand perspective. In 1987, the paper changed its name from the Southern Israelite to the Atlanta Jewish Times and guaranteed at least thirty-two page issues moving forward. The paper is today owned by Jewish Renaissance Media and continues as a weekly publication with a readership of over 25,000.
The Southern Israelite database is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia, a GALILEO initiative that shares Georgia's history and culture online. The Cuba Archives of the Breman Museum and the generosity of the Srochi family of Atlanta make digitization possible.
Special Collections, University of West Florida, Pensacola has received Georgia material in the following, recent gifts: Research files of Mrs. Henry Parramore include notes, clippings and related material of the Parramore Family of North Carolina, Georgia, and Pensacola, Florida; personal papers of Vera Aldridge Keller Lawbaugh, a Pensacola author and teacher, which includes The Finale (1925) yearbook of Covington (Ga.) High School which is dedicated to Vera, a teacher of French and History; and a scrapbook of Minnie Lee Walden Edney (ca. 1910-1958) which includes an invitation to commencement exercises of the Southern College of Pharmacy at the Atlanta Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, September 1911 with a copy of the class roll of 1911 which includes Talmer Marion Walden.
Publications
National Archives at Atlanta has created an 81-page description of their holdings related to science, technology and invention. The guide is freely available as a PDF file from this webpage: http://www.friendsnas.org/resources.htm
The third volume of a comprehensive directory listing all burials at the Catholic Cemetery on Wheaton Street in Savannah is now available.
Publication of Volume III marks the conclusion of an 8-year inventory project, covering all areas of the Cemetery, which opened in 1853. Printing costs were provided by the R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, which promotes genealogical research and study in Georgia in conjunction with the Georgia Genealogical Society and the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Volumes I and II are priced at $20.00 each and Volume III at $15.00. All proceeds support the Savannah Catholic Cemetery Preservation Society. Books are bound in green buckram with cover design imprinted in gold. For copies please contact Archives, Catholic Diocese of Savannah, 601 East Liberty Street, Savannah, GA 31401, making check payable to Catholic Diocese of Savannah with memo note “for Cemetery Preservation.” Add $5.00 for postage and handling.
NUCMC Seeks to Describe Civil War Collections
As part of the Library of Congress observance of the forthcoming sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) is seeking the assistance of eligible repositories in identifying and describing archival collections relating to the conflict. Eligible repositories must 1) be located in the United States or its territories; 2) must regularly admit researchers; and 3) must lack the capability of entering their own archival cataloging into OCLC.
Also part of the NUCMC observance of the Civil War sesquicentennial will be a five year/five part exhibit on our Web site entitled “NUCMC and the Documentary Heritage of the American Civil War.” The exhibit will highlight program cataloging of the last quarter century and will also contain related visual content. Initial plans call for the first exhibit (2011) to focus on the election of Abraham Lincoln, the secession crisis, the outbreak of hostilities, mobilizing for war, and foreign public opinion. Succeeding exhibits will feature personal narratives of members of the Union and Confederate armed forces (2012); the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and the African American experience from slavery to the end of the war (2013); the home front, women in the war, the role of charitable organizations, economic aspects of the war, and patriotic societies (2014); and the sesquicentennial of the death of Abraham Lincoln, Reconstruction, Confederate exiles, and the rise of veterans’ organizations (2015).
For more information about NUCMC program participation please visit our Web site at http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc or contact us at Library of Congress, Cooperative and Instructional Programs Division, NUCMC, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Stop-4230
Washington, D.C. 20540-4230. Email: nucmc@loc.gov . Telephone: (202) 707-7954. Fax: (202) 252-2082.
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