Catalogs
RLIN Union Catalog
Web site: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/rlinamc.html
A catalog of over 75 million items held in comprehensive research libraries and special libraries in RLG member institutions, plus over 100 additional law, technical, and corporate libraries. This comprehensive database serves as a major union catalog of records describing books, serials, archival collections, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, computer files, electronic resources and more. The RLG Union Catalog reflects the collections of major research libraries; academic, public, corporate and national libraries; archives and museums; historical societies and international book vendors.
Methodist Resources
Arthur J. Moore Museum and Library at Epworth by the Sea
Web site: http://www.epworthbythesea.org/museum.html
The depository for the South Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church archival records.
Pitts Theology Library, Emory University
Web site: http://www.pittts.emory.edu
The Pitts Library, official archive of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church, has rich resources for the study of Methodism, including official publications of the various Methodist churches, standard reference materials and journals, and other works representing the best of historical and critical scholarship; special collections of Wesleyana and Methodistica; and unpublished archival materials, including organizational records of conferences and churches, local church histories, and personal papers of Methodist clergy, missionaries, and educators.
United Methodist Archives Center, Drew University
Web site: http://www.depts.drew.edu/lib/uma.html
The Methodist Library is a research library containing the non-circulating Methodist collections of the Drew University Library and of the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church.
Other Special Collections and Archives in Georgia
Georgia Archival Repositories (as listed by Society of Georgia Archivists)
Web site: http://www.soga.org/resources/gar.html
Links to selected archival repositories in the state of Georgia.
Georgia Historical Resources and Organizations Directory
Web site: http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/who_are_we/ghrab/directory/defau...
Directory of resources and organizations maintained by the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board
Selected Digital Collections
American Memory at the Library of Congress
Web site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem
American Memory is a multimedia Web site of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps and other resources from the Library of Congress’s vast holdings. A historic initiative in its own right, American Memory currently makes available more than 100 collections and more than 9 million individual items to users in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19 th-Century America at the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Web site: http://docsouth.unc.edu
A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20 th century. Currently includes seven thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library
Web site: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
The Electronic Text Center’s holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images (book collections, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, museum objects, etc.). Also includes the British Poetry Archive, 1300-1900.
Georgia Digital Library
Web site: http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu
A gateway to Georgia history and culture online. It connects visitors to more than a half million images and pages of electronic text drawn from 40 different libraries, archives, and museums, as well as 80 agencies of Georgia state government. With a single search, visitors can locate items from across 60 different collections, including the New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Government Publications database, and Vanishing Georgia photographs. The site provides advanced searching, including the ability to limit by collection, institution, date, or type of material.
Georgia Archives Virtual Vault: Digital Treasures from the Georgia Archives
Web site: http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/Vault/ArcVirtualVault/default.aspx
The Georgia Archives Virtual Vault houses online images of historical documents, maps, photographs, building plans, and more. The Vault provides a simple method for users to locate and view historical images by topic, time period, geographic area, record type, or curriculum standard.
The Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections & Services at the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University
Web site: http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/
Promotes and supports the use of scholarly electronic collections.
National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA)
Web site: http://www.archives.gov/
Web site for ( NARA) Southeast Region Archives: http://www.archives.gov/facilities/ga/atlanta/public_opening.html
NARA, an independent Federal agency, is America’s national recordkeeper. Records include those created or collected by headquarters offices of agencies of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States Government since its establishment, including the records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses.
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
Web site: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp
Provides an authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions, and many other topics relating to the state.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Web site: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
This digital gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera and more.
Slave Narratives “Excerpts from Slave Narratives” edited by Steven Mintz, University of Houston
Web site: http://www.vgskole.net/prosjekt/slavrute/primary.htm
Southern Spaces Emory University
Web site: http://www.southernspaces.org/interior_f.html
A peer-reviewed Internet journal and scholarly forum that provides open access to essays, gateways, events and conferences, interviews and performances, and annotated weblinks on real and imagined spaces and places of the American South.
Tutorials on Using Archives
Yale University Library: Using Manuscripts & Archives: a Tutorial
Web site: http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/tutorial/tutorial.htm
An instructional tool for finding manuscript and archival materials at Yale and beyond.
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