Hot Document in September

The World Factbook 2008

The World Factbook is a great source for information on countries and territories around the world. It provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. It features full-color maps and flags of all nations and geographical entities.

The 2008 version features several new additions. In the Geography, two fields focus on the vital resource of water: Total renewable water resources and Freshwater withdrawal. In the Economic category, three fields added for: Stock of direct foreign investment - at home, Stocks of direct foreign investment - abroad, and Market value of publicly shares. Concise descriptions of all majors religious included in the Noted and Definitions.

Want to know more about this title? Please view this link for a brief history of how facts are gathered for The World Factbook. This book is also located in our Government Documents area.

Science Direct

Science Direct will be temporarily unavailable tomorrow, Saturday, August 29 from approximately 2:30pm - 10:00pm. Note from vendor follows:

"Dear Customer,

ScienceDirect, Scopus and The Admin Tool will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 7.5 hours from 18:30 Saturday, 29 August to 02:00 GMT Sunday, 30 August (2:30 PM EDT Saturday, August 29 to 10:00PM EDT).

We apologize for the inconvenience."

Hot Document in August

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) provides a full listing of Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals.

CFDA is available online through CFDA.gov website. You can search by keyword, by agency, by program number as well as fine tune your search requests using the advanced search feature.

The CFDA website will also contain a PDF file version of the Catalog that,
when printed by any user, will have the same layout as the printed document that the Government Printing Office (GPO) has provided. Tarver library has a print version in our documents collection.

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.