GALILEO Toolbar

Please note the following new service from GALILEO:

"GALILEO is pleased to announce a new feature for all GALILEO users: the GALILEO Toolbar, a browser plugin that provides quick and easy access to GALILEO and the rest of your library's resources right from your Firefox or Internet Explorer web browser. Search in databases, find journals and magazines, and check your library catalog directly from the toolbar search box. Quick links are also provided to go directly to key GALILEO resources. Other features include a right-click menu for quick searching, OpenURL linking, and pushing URLs or reloading webpages through the GALILEO proxy for remote access authentication.

A unique toolbar has been created specifically for each participating GALILEO institution and is now available for downloading from GALILEO through the "Get Your GALILEO Toolbar" link in the Getting Started section of the GALILEO homepage."

African American Funeral Programs (Augusta, GA area)

Tarver Library has added the African American Funeral Programs database from the East Central Georgia Regional Library online collection to its database listing. African American Funeral Programs consists of funeral programs primarily from the Augusta area. A promotional information sheet can be found at http://www.usg.edu/galileo/docs/mats/DLG-FuneralPrograms.pdf

An announcement from the Digital Library of Georgia describing this database is available below.

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The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library.

The African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library online collection consists of over one thousand funeral programs ranging from 1933 to 2008 (with the bulk of the collection beginning in the 1960s) from the Eula M. Ramsey Johnson Memorial Funeral Program Collection. A majority of the programs are from churches in Augusta, Georgia, and the surrounding area, with a few outliers in other states such as New York and Florida. The programs typically contain a photograph of the deceased, an obituary, a list of surviving relatives, and the order of service. The collection provides extensive genealogical information about the deceased, including birth and death dates, maiden names, names of relatives, past residences, and place of burial. Alongside this genealogical information, the obituaries provide a rich source of local history about African Americans. Many of the people included in this collection were prominent in their communities, and many were involved locally in the struggle for civil rights.

The African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the East Central Georgia Regional Library as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

Columbus Enquirer Archive

Tarver Library has added the Columbus Enquirer Archive to its database repertoire. This database is produced by the Digital Library of Georgia and is available on the GALILEO Web site or the Tarver Library database listing.

The Columbus Enquirer Archive provides online access to early issues of the Columbus Enquirer ranging from its inception as a weekly newspaper in 1828, through the daily issues of the late nineteenth century. Consisting of over 30,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date.

Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive

Tarver Library has added the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive to its database repertoire. This database is produced by the Digital Library of Georgia and is available on the GALILEO Web site or the Tarver Library database listing.


The Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to eleven newspaper titles published in Milledgeville from 1808 to 1920. Consisting of over 49,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date. Because Milledgeville served as the state capital from 1804 to 1868, during the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods in the state's history, the site will provide researchers with particular historical insight into Georgia politics during the nineteenth century.

Hot Document in July

Digest of Education Statistics 2008

The 2008 edition of the Digest of Education Statistics is the 44th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The Digest's primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes a selection of data from many sources, both government and private, and draws especially on the results of surveys and activities carried out by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

The Digest contains data on a variety of topics, including the number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, and federal funds for education, libraries, and international comparisons. Supplemental information on population trends, attitudes on education, education characteristics of the labor force, government finances, and economic trends provides background for evaluating education data.

The Digest contains seven chapters:
Chapter 1. All Levels of Education
Chapter 2. Elementary and Secondary Education
Chapter 3. Postsecondary Education ( Part 1 and Part 2)
Chapter 4. Federal Programs for Education and Related Activities
Chapter 5. Outcomes of Education
Chapter 6. International Comparisons of Education
Chapter 7. Libraries and Educational Technology
Appendixes

Tarver Library has a print copy of the Digest of Education Statistics 2008 in the government documents reference collection.