The Society of Georgia Archivists (SGA) was established in 1969 to foster a community of archivists, librarians, historians, educators, and museum and historical agency personnel in the state of Georgia and the southeast. SGA fosters and supports the archival community by advocating for professionals, collections, and repositories; encouraging diversity in the field; promoting education and professional development; and advancing scholarly research and innovation through the publication of our journal, Provenance.




SGA is dedicated to creating opportunities for students to learn more about the field of archives by offering educational events, networking, and career development activities. Membership in SGA also provides a solid connection to information about current archival and historical trends and issues as well as opportunities to associate with and learn from leading individuals in the field.

Membership for full-time students is only $10 annually. Benefits of membership include discounted annual meeting and workshop fees, access to the SGA listserv and online job postings, SGA's Mentoring Program, as well as subscriptions to the SGA publications Provenance and the SGA Newsletter.

Across the Georgia Tech campus, hidden spaces and forgotten places await rediscovery. Some are relics of an earlier time, difficult to find and explore. Others are very much in view, but often overlooked. Hidden Georgia Tech is a photo-essay series highlighting places on campus that are hidden in plain sight.

Tech’s Library Archives and Records Management, currently located on the lower floor of Crosland Tower but moving to the Neely Room when the Library renewal is underway, is just what one would expect — stacks of research material on a wide variety of subjects in an ultra-quiet setting. What is surprising is the assortment of artifacts: from a Picasso vase to movie scripts and a couple of Oscars. Take a look inside.

The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, offers an incredible internship opportunity.

The Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development provides meaningful, hands-on training in numerous professional careers including research, photo archives, technical services, curatorial, membership, education, archives and collections management, recorded media, development, special events, programs and events, multi-media, publications, and public relations. In addition, interns learn and work in the company of baseball's best-known personalities during the annual Hall of Fame Weekend and Induction Ceremony, held in Cooperstown each summer.

To be considered for the Frank and Peggy Steele Internship Program for Youth Leadership Development, students must have completed at least their sophomore year and be enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program at a college or university during the internship, or have just graduated in May of 2015. All Steele interns receive a bi-weekly stipend during the ten weeks of the program and access to affordable student housing. If fulfilling an academic requirement, college credit may also be awarded.

The Frank & Peggy Steele Internship Program welcomes applicants for the Ozzie Smith Diversity Scholarship. Students of ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds pursuing a four year bachelor's or master's degree are eligible for a scholarship. Complete scholarships are awarded following acceptance into Frank & Peggy Steele Internship Program. If interested, please attach a one-page statement of interest with your cover letter and resume.

Please contact education@baseballhall.org with any questions. If you are interested in applying please let me. I am happy to serve as a reference. Applications are due January 31, 2016.

How have you been spending your summer?  Alice Clifton, a student in the HSTS Ph.D. program, has been spending hers at the National Archives branch in Atlanta.  

THE PEACHTREE WAY ARCHIVES EXHIBITION

Dates: May 7 - 27, 2015
Stubbins Gallery
College of Architecture, East Building
245 Fourth Street NW, Atlanta, 30332-0155
Gallery Hours: Mon. – Fri. 8:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The exhibit highlights the unique and historical architecture of the Peachtree Way Corridor, from Brookwood Station to Five Points.

Archival drawings and models by architects associated with Georgia Tech and practicing architects in Georgia will also be on display. Several Atlanta-based architecture firms will share their latest work on video displays, including: 

The Georgia Tech Archives (along with the Library) is preparing for a move of some of its collections to an offsite storage facility that will be shared with Emory University. The GT Archives is looking to hire two student assistants to help with the move and have indicated that they have had "consistently excellent student assistants from HTS in the past."

• Employment will begin as soon as possible, and it will continue until June 27 (it is possible that this term of employment may be extended)
• Students may work up to 20 hours a week, between the hours of Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm (at least 10-15 hours per week is preferable)
• Students will be working with original historical materials housed in the Archives, performing tasks such as reboxing materials, barcoding boxes and/or books, creating inventories on spreadsheets, and other duties as assigned
• Accuracy and attention to detail are important aspects of this position
• Payment is $10 per hour

Interested students should contact us immediately to get the fullest consideration of their applications. Please ask interested students to contact Christine de Catanzaro via this email (decatanzaro@gatech.edu), or Mandi Johnson, Visual Materials Archivist (mandi.johnson@library.gatech.edu), as soon as possible.

Library Associate II - Metadata Specialist Tech Temp

National Archives and Records Administration will be opening up a number of positions in the DC area in the coming months. Even though its unpaid, our internship program here in Morrow offers archival experience and a chance for students to work "hands on" with history and put an extra notch on their resume or CV. If you are interested or have any questions, contact the intern coordinator at shane.bell@nara.gov

Georgia Tech faculty, students and staff can now freely access more than 4.5 million digital books and journals in the public domain.

The Georgia Tech Library recently joined HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.

You can:

• Search HathiTrust’s catalog
• Curate your own private libraries
• Read books on-the-goLearn more about HathiTrust and its collections!

Are you an undergraduate student that will be graduating soon and still looking for a career path? Are you considering professional schools such as law or MBA? You can explore a career in the information professions! 

Work with the founding Dean, and former assistant director of the National Science Foundation, of the College of Computing on an archival history project about the CoC at Georgia Tech!  Tasks will include such things as updating and formatting an historical timeline with information, putting citations into proper format, and going to the library and archives and digging out/fact checking information.

The project should take 40 - 60 hours over the next few months, with a possibility of an additional 40 - 50 hours after that.  This is a PAID position, $10 per hour, up to a maximum of $1500.

The potential internship candidate should be:

    dependable
    responsive by email/phone
    familiar with appropriate citation styles
    well versed in MS Word and Excel
    knowledge of website creation a bonus
    familiar with (or willing to get familiar with quickly) the GT library and/or GT Archives
    a strong writer

This position starts AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, so please contact Dr. D'Unger ASAP if interested.

Richard B. Russell Library Archival Internship

Former HTS graduate student Eric Hardy, now at Loyola, needs some help with downloading microfilmed Atlanta Journal articles that are housed at the GT library.  It would be $100 for a day's worth of work.  The student would download the articles onto a thumb drive and then mail the drive to Dr. Hardy.  Contact Dr. Hardy at emhardy@loyno.edu if you are interested.

General Function: 

Archives Intern/Student Assistant at the Library Archives

General Function:
The intern/student assistant will learn to organize and preserve archival collections (manuscripts, photographs, architectural drawings and digital objects) in the Library Archives. Arrangement and describe collections both paper and digital and learn valuable research methods while working in an archives. Creates and posts Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and other finding aids on the Archives’ web site. Assist in identifying and collecting digital archival materials including campus publications, which are selected for web access via the library-run Georgia Tech Institutional Repository (IR), currently run on DSpace software.

Specific Duties:
Arrange archival collections according to established practices.
Describe archival collection.
Assist in using the IR software to manage digital archival collections.
Identify campus-wide digital materials for acquisition.
Apply metadata to digital items.

Knowledge and skills required:
Interest in archival theory and practice.
Attention to detail and accuracy.
Ability to initiate projects and work independently is required.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to take instruction and follow directions.

Work Conditions:
The work environment involves minimal physical risks with moving and lifting of boxes up to 35lbs. may be required.

Pay rate/hours:
$7.50 per hour; maximum 10 hours per week

The Georgia Archives is now open to the public for research, every week, Wednesday through Saturday, from 8:30 AM until 5:00 PM, except holidays. Two additional reference archivists and a conservator have been hired since July 1, 2013.

If you are affiliated with an organization, institution, or class which might want to combine a group research visit with a tour of the facility, please contact Christopher Davidson, Director, Georgia Archives, 678-364-3806, or Christopher.Davidson@usg.edu.

The Georgia Archives has two part-time records digitization positions available, 15/20 hours per week. Please see the attached position description. Application deadline is April 15, 2013.

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The 2nd Annual Scholarly Symposium at the National Archives in Atlanta