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The fourth feature in our University Special Collections Libraries Faculty Teaching Fellows program series is Moon Jung Jang from the UGA Department of Visual C...ommunication Design in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. In the interview below, Professor Jang shares about how utilizing Special Collections archival materials impacted her and her students. Q&A with Professor Jang 1. What has been your favorite special collections item or group of items to use in teaching? My students and I have read some issues of The Student Voice published by SNCC, Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee. 2. Why were these issues your favorite items? A design course, Design Center, is designed to explore graphic design problems and the impact of visual communication design. Project topics range from social design & public outreach to information graphics. The Student Voice is an invaluable material to reflect the collection of historical messages onto the present public through design practices. 3. How do students respond to, or what do they take from the experience of working closely with special collections materials? After reading some issues of The Student Voice, students in this class have used the material as an inspiration to create a series of visual forms or to commemorate information and legacy derived from The Student Voice. Also, they have designed various forms: campaigns, publications, online platforms, and experiential designs. The University Special Collections Libraries Faculty Teaching Fellows work with archivists and librarians to redesign existing courses or create new ones that focus on archives-centered learning. The deadline to apply for the program's next cohort is coming in January. To learn more about applying, visit https://ctl.uga.edu//special-collections-libraries-fellows/ Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Libraries Building The Arts at UGA

"Threshold" is a book work by Casey Gardner. When the opened book is turned, it reveals through text and images the transformations of the nymph Daphne. The Hargrett Library owns copy number 7/50. (Folio PPR S438 T4) #FoldoutFriday #rarebooks

As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, we want to highlight the faculty and staff who have helped make BMA successful! Meet Jan Hebbard! "I have worked as the ex...hibition coordinator with BMA since 2018. I focus on using the collections to tell stories in our physical gallery spaces for visitors of all ages. As someone who really likes modern American history, BMA’s collections offer a real playground of materials to explore and use in storytelling." See more

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, Hargrett Library is giving away free copies of "Like: Poems" by 2019 Inductee A.E. Stallings, to the first 25 UGA students to email [email protected] and reserve a copy for pickup! In her latest collection, Stallings, known for her wry and musical lyric poems, continues her archeology of the domestic, her odyssey through myth and motherhood in received and invented forms, from sonnets to syllabics. Stallings also eschews the poetry volume's conventional sections for the arbitrary order of the alphabet. Contemporary Athens itself, a place never dull during the economic and migration crises of recent years, shakes off the dust of history and emerges as a vibrant character. "Like" was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

The John B. Lamar plantation book includes lists containing names of enslaved people, a diagram of crop rotation, and a map of the plantation from 1847-1880. This book is digitized and available for research through the Digital Library of Georgia. https://tinyurl.com/yy9g9759

Just one day before voters cast their ballots in the 2020 election, archivists at UGA’s Russell Library for Political Research and Studies will trace the histor...y of the 1980 election via Facebook Live at 2 pm on November 2nd. Election 1980: The Elephant in the Room just opened at the UGA Special Collections Building and will provide context for the races for president and Georgia’s U.S. Senator that showcased a dramatically changing political landscape in 1980. The exhibit will remain on display through February 2021. Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Libraries Building Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies #GeorgiaArchivesMonth

SUNDAY at 2PM! Athens Georgia ASALH Branch and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library invite you to a virtual screening of the film "Signing Black in America," the first-ever documentary about the innovative variety of sign language that was developed by members of the historically segregated African American Deaf Community. An online panel discussion will follow that features deaf and hearing producers and researchers for this film. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required: tinyurl.com/y2hc88kl

You asked, Jim answered! Processing Associate Jim StipeMaas talks all things Hargrett Library in the latest edition of #AskTheArchives!

We would like to say a big thank you to Student Docent Erik Quillian who led gallery tours for First Year Odyssey students this semester! The FYO program is designed to introduce first-year students to the academic life of UGA. FYO students visit Special Collections every semester to tour our galleries and learn more about researching in our archives. Interested in scheduling a tour? Email [email protected].

Want to learn how we acquire collections and get them ready for researchers like you? Why don't you #AskTheArchives! There's still time to submit your questions for Jim StipeMaas, Processing Associate for Hargrett Library, in the comments! Jim will answer questions Friday morning at 10AM on our Facebook page!

This digitized collection consists of a bill of sale from Savannah, Georgia for the purchase of an enslaved woman, Ellen, and her child, Caroline, and an agreement made between Ellen and Angus McQueen. This collection is available for research through the Digital Library of Georgia. https://tinyurl.com/yybfku2p

This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame! There will be a livestream event on November 8th to celebrate past honore...es. Check out the video below, narrated by Terry Kay, to learn more about the rich legacy of Georgia Writers and the history of the hall of fame. Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Libraries Building See more

On October 18, UGA Pamoja celebrated its 50th anniversary! We are proud to have UGA Pamoja founder, Pastor Nawanna Lewis Miller, as a participant in our Black Alumni Oral History Project. To hear more of Miller's story, visit t.uga.edu/6qd. You can also read more about Sunday's celebration and the academic-based scholarship created to honor Miller here: tinyurl.com/y6f4qzzh UGA Libraries

Want to learn more about the Special Collections Libraries? You should #AskTheArchives! This week, Jim StipeMaas, Processing Associate for Hargrett Library, is here to answer your questions. As a collection processor, Jim's job is to make sense of small and large collections of papers and arrange them in order to best describe their historic, organizational, or genealogical information. Submit your questions for Jim in the comments, and he will answer some on Friday morning!

KC Carter is a processing and metadata associate at the Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection When the pandemic happened and the UGA campus was sudde...nly closed, she worked alongside Mary Miller to train temporary workers on projects like transcribing thousands of shot logs in the WSB News Video Collection. By viewing and describing hundreds of hours of taps, their team was able to improve searchability which allowed more digital access of the collections. Thank you for all of your work to adapt Brown Media work to the digital landscape of the pandemic, KC! See more

TOMORROW! Celebrate Home Movie Day 2020 with Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection! Hosted annually by The Center for Home Movies, Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking. Enjoy home movie clips from our collection. Learn how to make your own flip book and play home movie bingo with supplies in our craft kit. Or, create your own home movies to share on social media, using the hashtag, #HomeMovieDay and tagging us! Craft kits are free and available for pick-up at Treehouse kid and craft.

Check out the new exhibit, "Election 1980: The Elephant in the Room," on display in the Russell Library Gallery beginning Oct. 19!

The John Brown Gordon family papers includes a set of letters dating from the 1940s to and from Rev. John Dawson Gordon, whose parents were enslaved by and, later, servants of the Gordon family. This collection is digitized and available through the Digital Library of Georgia. https://tinyurl.com/y5gbnekf

Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once said, I don’t think that there has been a film that I’ve done that hasn’t been influenced by libraries and archives.... That’s because libraries and archives, like the one in UGA’s Special Collections Building, contain artifacts and facts that help historians, researchers, and yes, filmmakers, frame and provide context for the events that shaped our world. Burns’ job, and that of others like him, would be a lot more difficult without the decisions made 25 years ago that created the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection to preserve and provide access to special collections of media. Today, the Brown Media Archives’ holdings range from radio broadcasts to home movies that date back over 100 years. Read more about the Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection and its anniversary events at https://research.uga.edu//preserving-memories-georgias-fi/