Featured Government Website in February

ScienceCinema: the Source for Department of Energy (DOE) Multimedia

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched ScienceCinema, a new search engine for videos from the national laboratories and other DOE research facilities. ScienceCinema searches audio in DOE's research and development lectures and presentations and links directly to the video files. The videos in ScienceCinema highlight DOE's most exciting scientific research. You can also check out this DOE press release to learn more about this search tool.

Simply enter a term in the search box and start exploring DOE's multimedia! You can search for specific words and phrases spoken by the presenter in these video files.

Several search options are available:
1) Auto search, which requires placing your keywords in "double quotes" and

2) Bibliographic search, which allows searching by Bibliographic Data, Creator/Author, Title, Description/Abstract, and Identifier Numbers.

For more helpful ScienceCinema search tips, please visit ScienceCinema Help.

Georgia Baptist History Depository in Tarver Special Collections

Just a reminder that the Georgia Baptist History Depository is located in the Special Collections department on the third floor of the library. We have a vast collection of church and association records, Baptist convention minutes, and other items that document the history of Baptists in Georgia.

Georgia Baptists have preserved their history for a long time! From the Minutes of the New Sunbury Baptist Association, 1898:

"Bro. G. A. Blount called attention to the fact that the old Minutes of the Sunbury Association, back perhaps to 1818 had been preserved, bound in a volume and were in the custody of Bro. L. C. Tebeau, former clerk of this association. By motion duly passed, the Clerk was instructed to call on Bro. Tebeau and request him to turn over such old records and minutes as may be in his possession, to be kept as the archives of this Association."

We still collect such things today. Let us know if we can help you with church history research!

Prepare for a bit of RSS feed influx

We're shifting things around and shaking things up a bit on the blog front.  Our Media Center blog is going to be incorporated into this main news blog just to get the information out to you easier.  So we'll be importing the posts from the Media Center blog into this one in the next couple of days so you may notice an influx in your RSS feeds of these posts from the Media Center blog. By next week everything will be back to normal.  If you have any questions let us know!