UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARIES BEYOND Volume 27 Fall 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: Rick Hutto, Dr. Stephen Corey, Olivia DIGITAL LIBRARY OF GEORGIA Duever, Ashton Ellett, Jan Hebbard, Madison Ingram, Mandy Mastrovita, Leandra Nessel, Jill Sheila McAlister Severn, Beth Fowkes Tobin Director Design: Brandon Duncan, Bulldog Print + Design [email protected] (706) 542-5418 Cover Photo: One of the pieces of pottery that makes up the WE: American Thanksgiving, Researchers | (706) 542-7123 Conflict and Communion exhibit, which will be on Events | (706) 542-6331 display through December 22, 2018. See pages 20-21 for more information. Tours | (706) 542-8079 Articles may be reprinted with permission. The University of Georgia is an equal opportunity employer. [ WITHIN THE PAGES] [ MEDIA] 4 Dr. Toby Graham: University Librarian 22 Grant to Preserve, Provide Access and Associate Provost to Local Public Broadcasts Peabody Award winning content to be 6 Exhibit Schedule digitized and made available to the public 8 Recent Acquisitions 24 Experience UGA at the 10 Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene: Special Collections Building Unlikely Correspondent Field Trip Brings History to Life for High School Students 12 MLC Celebrates Fifteenth Anniversary [DIGITAL LIBRARY [ HARGRETT] OF GEORGIA] 14 Under the Big Top 26 Digital Library of Georgia Launches Exhibit explores the exciting world of circuses New Website for K-12 Educators and vaudeville. Printables now available for classroom use 16 Southern Herbal Remedies Faculty Fellows Women in Archives course explores [ LITERARY UPDATE] history of plant-based healing 28 Georgia Review [ RUSSELL] 29 UGA Press 18 Russell Library Celebrates [IN THE STACKS] Congress Week 2018 13 Board Member Profile: Public programs promote political engagement Coach Vince Dooley 20 WE: American Thanksgiving, 30 Letter from Chantel Dunham, Conflict and Communion Libraries’ Director of Development Art exhibit examines history through the lens of the Thanksgiving dinner table 31 Board of Visitors The HARGRETT LIBRARY is pleased to announce that more than 4,200 pages of correspondence between George Horace Lorimer and a number of authors, journalists, and politicians are now available through the Digital Library of Georgia, https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_2944. Lorimer was the Editor of The Saturday Evening Post from 1899-1936. Of note are letters from Albert Beveridge, Upton Sinclair, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Julia Grant Cantacuzene, Joel Chandler Harris, and Irvin S. Cobb. This project was made possible through funding by the George Horace Lorimer Center for Print Media, which supported numerous student digitization internships. For a story about a portion of the collection, see pages 10-11. To learn more about how you can support student internships, please contact Chantel Dunham at (706) 542-0628 or [email protected]. WITHIN THE PAGES Many changes occurred in the At the same time, our physical special intervening 217 years. We still provide collections and archives have never been the access to recorded knowledge more used, in part through thirty-five new that underpins learning and discovery archives-centric courses in twenty-two at UGA, but now in many cases the disciplines developed through innovative content is digital in nature. Students partnerships between our librarians and and faculty download more than 4 University faculty. UGA students visit our million full-text articles annually from Special Collections Libraries daily, inspired our thousands of e-journals. Our and enlightened by what they find there. databases are vital tools for research, Even circulation of print books in our and users search them about 11 million general collection hit a five-year high last times each year and access our academic year, despite the increasing collections of electronic books more availability and use of digital content. than 600,000 times. The Digital Library The UGA Libraries incorporate the of Georgia has digitized more than University of Georgia Press (p. 29) and a million pages of historical newspapers the Georgia Review (p. 28), both serving Dr. Toby Graham along with many other cultural resources, as vital links between scholarly writers which are freely available to the and their readers. University Librarian public and used extensively statewide As the UGA Libraries have evolved, and Associate Provost and well beyond (see p. 26). Our vast so has the purpose of our library media archive is increasingly available buildings. Still repositories for recorded online and is now routinely used to knowledge, our libraries also are he University of Georgia advance teaching, research, media student learning environments for T Libraries trace their journalism, and documentary film collaboration and individual study. They beginnings back to the origins making (see p. 22). are technology centers providing labs of UGA, itself. “The birthplace of public higher education in America,” UGA was chartered in 1785 and welcomed its first class in 1801. The University’s first structure was a rudimentary log building, the upper half-story of which housed its earliest library. The nascent collection held works to aid instruction in areas such as classics, mathematics, natural and moral philosophy, and the laws of nature and nations. The library also held books on history, literature, and geography and other subjects “for the use of Students at intervals when not engaged in the Academical studies.” From this modest beginning on the Robert Holden, Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services, (far left), Georgia frontier, the UGA Libraries Mrs. Robin Benson (center) and Dr. Toby Graham, University Librarian (far eventually emerged as a leading research right) cut the ribbon to dedicate the Benson Collaboration Café in the Main library in support of an institution that Library. The renovation was made possible by funding from Auxiliary Services is now ranks among the top public and generous private support from Ed (’42) and Robin (’59) Benson. Mr. Benson Universities in the country. passed away in March of 2018. 4 Within the Pages | University of Georgia | Fall 2018 Architect's Renderings of group study spaces planned for the Main Library. for digital humanities, 3D printing and Library. The Collaboration Café has been adjacent rendering). Similar rooms at the virtual reality, media production, and an instant success among students. It is Miller Learning Center are in constant geographic information systems; as the product of a partnership between use and the most coveted study spaces well as a technology lending program UGA’s Libraries and Dining Services and is we have. The new project will bring this to fuel student creativity and success. made possible by a generous gift by the highly-successful model into use at the Our facilities are platforms for providing late Ed Benson and Robin Benson. Main Library in response to the popular research instruction and consultation, In addition to collaboration space, demand of our students. tutoring, and writing support. students consistently demonstrate the Naming one of these new study rooms The Zell B. Miller Learning Center is a need for library areas designed for quiet on the Main Library’s entry floor is a key hub for these activities. This year, we study and other contemplative work. To visible, high impact, and enduring way celebrated the MLC’s fifteenth anniversary this end, our next step is to renovate the to support the UGA Libraries and our as a focal point for academic life that south end of the Main Library’s first floor students. I would welcome hearing from has welcomed more than 30 million to provide glassed-in study rooms (see you on this or any other matter. visitors and served as a model for other institutions since its opening in 2003 (see p. 12). It is essential that we continually revisit the use of the 800,000 square feet of space that the Libraries manage for the benefit of the faculty, students, and others who visit approximately 3 million times each year. A prime example is the Main Library’s Benson Collaboration Cafe, which opened this August in response to the student need for a place specifically designed to conduct group projects, mentoring and tutoring, along with other interactive work. The project also improved the quality and extended hours of the food service at the Library through the addition of a coffee and bagels shop, which helps to sustain our students who spend so much of their time studying and learning at the Main Fall 2018 | University of Georgia | Within the Pages 5 Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Library EXHIBITEXHIBIT SCHEDULESCHEDULE SIDNEY SAMUEL THOMAS ROTUNDA Fighting Spirit: Wally Butts and UGA Football, 1939-1950 – Through May, 2019 HARGRETT RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY War of Words – Through December 14, 2018 The art of the propaganda poster. Poppies: Women, War, Peace – Through December 14, 2018 Documentary photographic work by Dr. Lee K. Stow. Under the Big Top – January 18 through May 25, 2019 This exhibit explores the performers and performances that dazzled audiences across the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.