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Digital Library of Georgia Georgia Library Quarterly Volume 56 Issue 4 Fall 2019 Article 16 10-1-2019 News - Digital Library of Georgia Mandy L. Mastrovita University of Georgia, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Mastrovita, M. L. (2019). News - Digital Library of Georgia. Georgia Library Quarterly, 56(4). Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/vol56/iss4/16 This News is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Georgia Library Quarterly by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Mastrovita: News - Digital Library of Georgia Digital Library of Georgia cultural or social values can be studied through the lunacy and guardianship records that Bartow History Museum Vertical File Records contain information on how people were from 1850 to 1929 Now Freely Available Online diagnosed and labeled, as well as how children were legally handled in cases of custody or The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to guardianship. Some of the indenture records announce the availability of the Bartow History show the plight of children after the Civil War, Museum vertical file record collection at and some further contain information that speaks to matters of race relations.” 30TUdlg.usg.edu/collection/barhm_bhmvfU30T. The collection, which belongs to the Bartow History Museum, is available online thanks in part to Genealogist Yvonne Mashburn Schmidt noted the DLG's Competitive Digitization grant "this area's rural, agricultural, and yeoman program, a funding opportunity intended to families generally were unconcerned with broaden DLG partner creating records participation for themselves...This statewide historic record collection held digitization projects. by the Archives contains uncommon The digital collection records such as consists of a portion mercantile and of a compilation of miscellaneous county documents receipts, voter lists, that include topics smallpox lists, pauper such as guardianship lists, indentures, and (1850–1929), estray records. These indentures (1860– county records 1929), lunacy (1866– generally are not 1929), pauperism available to (1866–1879), land researchers. grants/deeds (1866–1929), and other records. Ancestral names in these records might be Court officials created the records to document found when no other record for the ancestor legal proceedings and transactions. exists...Historical migration routes and early land grants make Georgia's records especially Trey Gaines, the director of the Bartow History important. Ancestors from northern and mid‐ Museum, said: “the digitization of these items Atlantic states often settled in or passed provides documentation of under‐represented through Georgia. Some of these and their subjects, particularly citizens of lower economic descendants who settled or stayed for a time standing, from the Civil War through the Great participated in Georgia land lotteries. Cass (now Depression. The movement and financial status Bartow County) was one of the original counties of families and individuals that lived and moved created after Cherokee County's division, and in and out of Bartow County are demonstrated this county's land was part of the 1832 Georgia through the collection's land, indenture, and land lottery. Many of this collection's loose guardianship papers. Family dynamics and records were created between 1850 and 1880 Published by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University, 2019 1 Georgia Library Quarterly, Vol. 56, Iss. 4 [2019], Art. 16 and include land grants and deeds that may not and more for K–12 history researchers exist in any other local or state repository. (available via GALILEO affiliated K–12 These grants and deeds are original records." schools. Contact GALILEO at 30Tgalileo.usg.edu/contact/30T for details) The Bartow History Museum, located at 4 East Church Street in downtown Cartersville, In a joint statement, Joy Hatcher, social studies Georgia, documents the history of Northwest program manager, and JoAnn Wood, social Georgia's Bartow County. Visit 30Tbartowhistory studies program specialist, both with the museum.org/ 30T. Georgia Department of Education, said “the primary sources from GALILEO and DLG provide DLG Provides Back-to-School Educator Georgia’s teachers with a wealth of excellent Resources for the 2019–2020 School Year teaching materials. It is clear that they are working diligently to see that sources are The DLG welcomed this year’s back‐to‐school teacher‐friendly and aligned to the Georgia season by making new educator resources Standards of Excellence. We are fortunate to based on the Georgia third, fourth, and fifth have such a collection and experts determined grade Georgia Social Studies Standards of to make them usable.” Excellence (GSE) available at 30Tsites.google. com/view/dlg‐educator‐resources30T. These items provide high‐quality, standards‐ aligned materials that help teachers meet the New items include: diverse academic interests and needs of students. • A frameable poster and printable postcard featuring Georgia third, Topics include: fourth, and fifth grade GSE themes, released monthly • Early Native American cultures • “Link lists” to DLG and Digital Public • European exploration in North America Library of America (DPLA) resources, • British colonial America organized by Georgia third, fourth, and • The American Revolution fifth grade GSE themes and topics • The creation of the Constitution • American westward expansion These new items accompany our existing • The abolitionist and suffrage resources: movements • The Civil War and Reconstruction • A quick‐start guide that supports • The turn of the 20th century educators and students in their • American involvement in World War I research of original materials and World War II • A sample slide deck for educators • The Great Depression and New Deal • A guide on using DLG materials • The Cold War • A postcard of DLG portals with features • Historical developments between available for educators 1950–1975 • National History Day resources that • Important events from 1975–2001 connect K–12 history researchers to primary source documents in the DLG Materials come from museums, archives, • A customized National History Day libraries, historical societies, and other cultural GALILEO portal, designed to simplify heritage organizations that have contributed access to primary documents, articles, more than 800 collections to DLG’s website, and https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/vol56/iss4/16 2 Mastrovita: News - Digital Library of Georgia all provide insight into the state’s diverse systems have a great potential to illuminate the population and geography. history of a place...from learning and teaching to voting and playing, they are institutions that Fulton County Superintendent’s Annual reflect the social and cultural milieus of the Reports now Available Online districts they reside within. The Superintendent’s Annual Reports of Fulton The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to County Schools document this story by offering announce the availability of superintendent’s a look at the growth of metro Atlanta annual reports for the Fulton County, Georgia throughout some very crucial decades of the school system at 30Tdlg.usg.edu/collection/ 20th century. The oldest portion of this fcs_superintendents30T. These resources have collection provides evidence of a largely rural been made available online thanks in part to and segregated district during the Great the DLG's Competitive Depression, while the Digitization grant latter portion is a program, a funding culmination of the opportunity intended to movement to integrate broaden DLG partner the schools after the participation for Brown v. Board of statewide historic Education decision of digitization projects. 1954—a process that lasted 17 years. In this These annual reports respect, the reports help were submitted by local, to clarify one of the public school districts to defining issues of the Civil the State School Rights Movement.” Superintendent’s Office as part of their operations The Fulton County to receive accreditation Schools Archives and funding, and contain preserves and maintains a demographic information wide range of historic pertaining to the growth materials such as board of the school system minutes, school located in and around yearbooks, and Atlanta between the audiovisual recordings years 1929 and 1977. Data was collected on while serving the public as a repository for both African American and white schools and these historical collections. Visit30T fulton was expressed using the “dual school system” schools.org/archives30T. terminology of “colored” and “white.” The reports also contain material related to school Thomasville History Center's Cutler Collection employees, building materials and valuations, Now Freely Available Online as well as transportation and supply costs. A small portion of this collection includes reports The Cutler Collection is now available at from Milton and Campbell counties just before 30Tdlg.usg.edu/collection/tchs_cutcol30T. These they merged with Fulton County. resources belong to the Thomasville History Center and have been made available online Michael Santrock, the archives and collections thanks in part to the DLG's Competitive specialist at Fulton County Schools Archives
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