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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARIES BEYOND Volume 26 Spring 2018 Visit the LIBRARIES CONTACT INFORMATION WEBSITES Dr. P. Toby Graham www.libs.uga.edu University Librarian and Associate Provost [email protected] (706) 542-0621 Special Collections Library Chantel Dunham www.libs.uga.edu/scl Director of Development [email protected] (706) 542-0628 Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett Leandra Nessel Development Officer [email protected] Richard B. Russell Library for (706) 542-3879 Political Research and Studies HARGRETT RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY www.libs.uga.edu/russell Kat Stein Director Walter J. Brown Media Archive [email protected] and Peabody Awards Collection (706) 542-5484 www.libs.uga.edu/media WALTER J. BROWN MEDIA ARCHIVE AND PEABODY AWARDS COLLECTION Digital Library of Georgia Ruta Abolins www.dlg.galileo.usg.edu Director [email protected] (706) 542-4757 RICHARD B. RUSSELL LIBRARY FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH AND STUDIES Beyond The Pages is published twice annually by the University of Georgia Libraries, with Sheryl B. Vogt support from the Dooley Endowment Director Editor: Leandra Nessel [email protected] (706) 542-0619 Writers: Rachel Ankirsky, Charles Campbell, DIGITAL LIBRARY OF GEORGIA Dr. Stephen Corey, Ashton Ellett, Callie Holmes, Mandy Mastrovita, Leandra Nessel, Whitney Priest, Sheila McAlister Nancee Reeves Director Design: Brandon Duncan, Bulldog Print + Design [email protected] (706) 542-5418 Cover Photo: A French propaganda poster from the Murray and Nancy Ann Blum collection. See Researchers | (706) 542-7123 story on pages 14 and 15. Events | (706) 542-6331 Articles may be reprinted with permission. Tours | (706) 542-8079 The University of Georgia is an equal opportunity employer. [ WITHIN THE PAGES] [ MEDIA] 4 Dr. Toby Graham: University Librarian 22 Broadcasting Microphone and Associate Provost Knowledge to the World Extensive microphone collection goes digital 6 Exhibit Schedule 24 Hidden History 8 Recent Acquisitions Home movie collection reveals suprising find 10 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame [DIGITAL LIBRARY [ HARGRETT] OF GEORGIA] 14 War of Words 26 Read All About It! Propaganda poster exhibit explores how Historic newspaper site adds new content words helped win World War I 16 What Super Science Stories [ LITERARY UPDATE] Can Teach Us About Ourselves Faculty Fellow shares the power 28 Georgia Review of pulp magazines 29 UGA Press [ RUSSELL] [IN THE STACKS] 18 A False Façade 30 Letter from Chantel Dunham, A false façade of unanimity on the Warren Commission Libraries’ Director of Development 31 20 Two-Party Georgia Board of Visitors Oral history program documents the rise of the two-party system in Georgia In the fast-paced world of auctions, the window PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING of opportunity to purchase rare or historically THE MINUTEMEN SOCIETY TODAY! significant documents can be only minutes. In order to secure these important artifacts, it is of For more information, the utmost importance to have funds available at a please contact: moment’s notice, thus The Hargrett Rare Book and CHANTEL DUNHAM Manuscript Library has developed The Minutemen Director of Development Society. We are often competing with other 706-542-0628 [email protected] institutions and collectors with more discretionary income. We need investors to help us ensure that we are able to acquire those materials that will truly strengthen our collections. WITHIN THE PAGES The Libraries’ collection underpins Dr. Ashton Ellett describes how the “Two research and discovery at UGA. Each year, Party Georgia” project captures the voices our users download about 4.5 million full- of people who have shaped the landscape text articles and search our databases more of Georgia politics since 1980. All of the than 11 million times. They draw on a print more than 50 video interviews will be collection of nearly 5 million volumes, along freely available online, and many of them with unique special collections and archives already are. In “A False Façade,” Charles of international significance. One of the Campbell highlights a key document from ways that we build our holdings is through our holdings: Senator Richard B. Russell’s oral history. In his article on page 20, dissent to the Warren Commission findings Dr. Toby Graham The Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries University Librarian and Associate Provost on President Kennedy’s assassination. As a key former senatorial staff member, Mr. Campbell has a unique perspective on the Commission’s report, which has been the subject of continued interest he UGA Libraries’ endeavor and speculation since it appeared in 1964 to provide the best T (p. 18). The Digital Library of Georgia possible access to recorded update, “Read All About It,” shares the knowledge, ensure the success latest addition to the DLG’s collection of of students and faculty through more than a million digitized pages of the teaching and research services state’s historical newspapers dating back in our physical and virtual to the 18th century. Digital archivist Callie environments, and embody the Holmes describes in “Hidden History” how a rediscovery of her own family’s home University’s commitment to movies led to a unique find for the UGA serve the citizens of Georgia. Renovations to the entrance Media Archives (p. 24). This issue of Beyond the Pages level at the Science Library brought The UGA Libraries are committed to the provides just a few examples of a 40% increase in the number of concept of the “teaching library,” imparting our work toward this purpose. students using the facility. research skills, as well as crafting unique 4 Within the Pages | University of Georgia | Spring 2018 Open 24 hours a day, the Miller Learning Center is one of the most heavily used buildings on campus. hands-on experiential learning for UGA students. Increasingly, we involve students in curating the Libraries’ public exhibitions, including the forthcoming exhibits on women’s history, water policy, and natural history generously funded through the Hargrett Library’s Lucy Hargrett Draper Center, Stephen Elliot Draper Center, and J.W. Woodruff, Sr. Center, respectively (pp. 6-7). Doctoral student Whitney Priest’s work on the “War of Words” World War I propaganda poster exhibit is described on p. 15 and featured on the cover. The new online exhibition on the Steele Vintage Twenty-six classrooms in the MLC provide enhanced Broadcast Microphone collection is the technology for faculty from all over campus. product of a student internship (p. 22). The Special Collections Libraries Faculty Fellows program has been a particularly serve as an educational and cultural asset for an international academic audience, successful way to reach UGA students with to the people of Georgia, specifically. The while also giving us regional titles of meaningful library-based teaching. Faculty Libraries have a key role in supporting interest within the state. A recent example Fellows meet as a cohort with librarians, GALILEO, providing virtual library services is Seeking Eden, a gorgeous new book archivists, and an instructional designer to to all levels of education and the public on Georgia’s historic gardens (p. 29). The develop new courses centered on the use libraries. We welcome thousands of Georgia Review (also part of the Libraries) of UGA’s rich special collections. English K-12 students each year to the Georgia celebrated its 70th year in 2017, a notable Professor Nancee Reeves is one of our Capitol Museum in Atlanta and the Russell milestone for one of America’s most Fellows. Her article “What Super Science Special Collections Building in Athens. distinguished literary magazines (p. 28). Stories Can Teach Us About Ourselves,” We celebrate and promote the state’s I hope that you will enjoy reading the illustrates how University faculty use our rich literary tradition through the Georgia pages that follow, and please come visit holdings bring their individual scholarly Writers Hall of Fame, which inducted us to learn more. To our supporters, thank interests into the classroom in new and another outstanding group of authors you for your essential part in making exciting ways (p. 16). in November (p. 10). The University of the UGA Libraries a vibrant and unique A leading research library in an Georgia Press has been a part of the contributor to the University’s mission international context, the UGA Libraries Libraries since 2011. The Press continues “to teach, to serve, and to inquire into the also take seriously our commitment to to publish meritorious scholarly books nature of things.” Spring 2018 | University of Georgia | Within the Pages 5 Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Library EXHIBIT SCHEDULE SIDNEY SAMUEL THOMAS ROTUNDA Covered With Glory: Football at UGA, 1892-1917 – through May 2018 UGA Football During World War II – August through December 2018 HARGRETT RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY War of Words – June through December, 2018 In commemoration of the centennial of the end of the First World War, the Hargrett Library is hosting an exhibition focused on the art of the propaganda poster. The exhibit features posters that were given to the Libraries by Murray and Nancy Ann Blum. The exhibit was curated by Whitney Priest, a history doctoral candidate. This exhibit is funded through the generosity of David Mitchell, funding the student internship opportunity, and Pat Epps, supporting the production and installation. Poppies: Women, War, Peace – September through December, 2018 This exhibit was developed by Dr. Lee K. Stow out of documentary photographic work with women trying to rebuild their lives in post-civil war Sierra Leone, West Africa, women who showed great strength and optimism through one of the most brutal conflicts in modern history. Dr. Stow became further inspired by the largely unknown story of Moina Belle Michael from Athens, Georgia who, on November 9, 1918, conceived of the red poppy flower as a symbol of remembrance.