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New Georgia Encyclopedia records

New Georgia Encyclopedia records

Descriptive Summary

Title: New Georgia Encyclopedia records
Creator: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Inclusive Dates: 2000-2011
Language(s): English
Extent: 11 Linear Feet (11 boxes)
Collection Number: UA19-001
Repository: University of Georgia Archives

Collection Description

Historical Note

Originally launched in 2004, the New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) is the first state encyclopedia to be conceived and designed exclusively for publication online. The website acts as an authoritative resource on Georgia's diverse history and culture, administered by Georgia Humanities in partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, and the Office of the Governor.

The NGE has its roots in the 1996 publication of The New Georgia Guide, an expansive travel guide devoted to Georgia's geography, history, and culture with different writers focusing on each of nine regions in the state. The New Georgia Guide was itself inspired by the New Deal-era WPA Guide to Georgia, and was published by the UGA Press in cooperation with the Georgia Humanities Council.

The NGE hosts an ever-growing collection of 2,300-plus articles and 6,600-plus images. It has earned awards and recognition from the Federation of State Humanities Councils, the Georgia Historical Society, the American Association for State and Local History, the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council, and Library Journal.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of editorial and publicity files dating back to 2000.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

New Georgia Encyclopedia records, UA19-001, University of Georgia Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2019.


Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

GALILEO (Georgia statewide project)
Georgia -- History.
Georgia Humanities Council
Georgia. Office of the Governor
New Georgia Encyclopedia
University of Georgia. Press
Web sites.

Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Editorial Production

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11Miscellaneous, undated
12Phase 1 article status reports, 2005-2006
13List of commissioned artlicles, 2000
14Briefing book originals , 2002 February 22
15Soft launch, 2002 October 15
16Merill hall proposals, 2000-2002
17Pubtool/public face templates, 2000-2001
18Merrill Hall templates, 2000
19Merrill Hall statements of work and invoices , 2003
 

2. Managing Editor

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111Charles,Ray, 2001
112Domains, alternate, for NGE , 2003-2004
113Fact-checking payments , 2002-2005
114Mission statement, 2003
115Music for site, 2002
116Georgia department of industry, trade and tourism (GDITT), 2004
117NGE, 2005-2007
118Archiving/citation/version control, 2003-2005
119Georgia info, 2004-2010
121Artlicle suggestions, 2002-2009
120Atlanta info, 2003-2009
122Phase 2 development, 2006-2010
123Section outlines, 2004
124GHC newsletters, 2006-2009
125Gov.'s awards program, 2010
126Guidelines- NGE and sample letters, docs, 2004-2009
127Galileo, 2004-2014
128Galileo and DLG, 2008-2011
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23Funding-UGA, 2011
21Gallery review and general info for galleries, 2002-2005
22General assembly, 2010
24Como, Athens 2010, 2010
25Como, Columbus, 2009 October 7-9
26Como Athens , 2008 October
27Content migration check, 2012
28Comments (fr "contract"), 2004-2007
29Copyright, 2005
210Digital publishing committee, UGA press, 2007-2008
211Donors-online, 2005-2009
212Liz, 2004-2005
213Articles with fact checkers, 2002-2009
214Fact checkers, 2001-2007
215Declined Articles, 2007
216Gumbrecht, Jaime (intern), 2009-2010
217Miscellaneous important stuff*, 2004
218Legal Pads, 2001-2002
219Langford, Jim, 2002
220Pubtool reports, 2004-2005
221Payments, 2006-2009
222Images and image review, 2002-2005
223Kiosk at capitol, 2002
224Governor's message, 2002
225Style, 2006-2007
226New GUI, 2002
227Census, 2011
228Citations of NGE, 2010-2013
229NGE poster, 2003
230Budget-reports, 2000-2006
231Budget- general, 2000-2006
232Editorial assistant, 2006-2007
233Writers, 2002-2003
234Web crawling NGE-search engines, etc. , 2003-2004
235Gardener, Chrsitine, 2002
236Site copy, 2002-2008
237Pubtool-consolidation of aall databases and workflow, 2004
238Relational database
239Powell, Tim, undated
240What you see is what you get editor, 2002
2412Photo researchers, 2000
242Photographs (process), 2000-2001
243Photography for NGE, 2001
244Inscoe-articles , 2002-2003
245National endowment for the humanities (NEH)- implementation grant, 2001
246Freelance queries
247Kevin Brock, copyeditor, 2005-2006
248Brown,Hillary editor profreader
249Kelly Burch, copy editor, 2005
250Fullbright, Nancy, 2004
251251Harris, Ellen-articles, 2001-2004
252Marsocci, Ray copy editor
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31Jennifer Southall, 2005-2006
32Thompson,Molly, 2006
33Totty-general, 2004-2005
34Wilson, Mindy, 2005-2006
35Progress reports, NGE, 2001-2002
36Contributors' guidelines, 1996-2000
37Special sections-ideas
39Features and "Collections", 2004-2005
39Problem articles, 2002-2004
310Education enhancement
311Article lists, 2003
312Artlicle categories, 2004-2005
313313Flash, 2004-2005
314Ideas, 2003
315315Phil Bellury-business articles, 2005
316Metadata workshop, Atlanta history center, 2005-2006
317Day file-old, 2002-2003
318Sheree Dendy, 2001-2003
319McCain, 2005
320User guide, 2002
322Editorial assistant, 2002-2003
323Reviews-articles, 2004-2005
324Reviews-image, 2004-2005
325Autolinker, 2005
326Barnes and Noble event , 2004
327Category tree-reworking, 2005
328Corrections and changes updates to be made, 2003-2004
329File transfer, 2003
330Images:need to load, add to articles, caption corrections,etc., 2004
331Phase One, 2004-2005
332Video review and video information, 2001-2004
333Lyrasis, 2009
334Atlanta convention and visitors bureau
335Digital library of Georgia, 2004
336McCommons, Molly, 2003-2006
337NGE metadata librarian, 2007
338Linking to NGE, 2004-2005
339Adkinson,Mike and techlinks, 2002
340Allen,Rinee-photo research, 2003
341Articles for staff review , 2005
342Articles for staff review, 2005
343NGE static copy, 2004
344Pubtool workflow, 2004
345Search engine comparison, 2005-2008
346Really simple syndication (RSS)feeds
347Multmedia center, 2004-2005
348Staff meetings, 2003
349Disclaimer about websites, 2002-2003
350Electronic editing (fine points), 2000-2001
351FAQ page, 2003-2004
352Starrs,Chris-writer, 2003
353Plains Chatauqua, 2014
354Demonstration of site, 2003
355Cassity,Pratt/Historic preservation
356Children's page, 2002-2003
357CD demo for NGE, 2003
358Cathy Hodge/Destinations, 2002
359Civil rights articles, 2007-2008
360Comments for testers, 2003 Dec-Jan 03
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41Counties and county map, 2002-2005
42Crawford,Tom (writer), 2008
43Creative cannonball, 2005
44Database, 2002
45Department of Adult and Technical Education (DTAE) to be included in the NGE
46Editing tests, undated
47Georgia voyager, 2004
48Georgia public library service, 2002
49Corrections/revisions/updates NGE site, 2004
410Estimated number of articles, undated
411Fact sheet, 2004
412Change management, 2004-2008
 

3. Electronic Editor

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413Unused media, 2009-2010
414NGE content at launch, 2002-2003
415Quilt gallery, 2002
416Historic preservation division (HPD) images, undated
417Watson-Brown, 2003
418Galileo, 2003
419Special sections, 2002-2003
420Current news/updates, 2002-2003
421Proposed articles, 2003
422Legal Pad, undated
423Article changes, 2003
424Current NGE issues, 2002-2003
425Caption information, 2000-2003
426Website drafts from Merrill-Hall, 2000-2001
427Illustration/image issues , undated
428Indexing issues, undated
429Statement of Work from Merrill-Hall, 2000-2002
430Merrill-Hall correspondence and information, 2001
431Correspondence Merrill-Hall, 2001-2002
432Post launch,Erin, 2002
433Georgia ecyclopedia, UGA, 2003
434Relational DB port, 2002-2003
435Merrill-Hall, 2002
436Soft launch, 2002
437Project reports-dated, 2002
438Proofreading, 2003-2004
439John Iscoe , 2004-2005
440NGE testing results, 2003 Dec. 18
441Issue tracking , 2003
442Gallery review, 2003-2004
443Image review, 2004
444Tech issues, Mark Durant, 2004
445Tech group, 2003-2004
446Current image file , 2003
447Video review, 2003-2004
448Changes made to NGE, 2004
449Business, 2005
450Folklife, 2005
451Government and Politics, 2005
452Literature, 2005
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51Invoices-Cathy, 2004-2005
52Invoices-Jessie, 2005
53Three legal pads, 2003
54Proofreader copies, 2004
55Advanced search page, 2008-2010
56Metadata Project, 2008-2010
57Search committee, 2007
58Home page, 2011-2012
59Articles, 2004
510



Features

511Images, 2004
512Staff meetings, 2005 Jan. 2005
 

4. Coordinator

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513Acknowledgments of submitted entries, 2000-2001
514Acknowledgments letters to contributors, 2000
515-19Contributors A-Z, 2000-2003
520Copy editors payments, 2002-2005
521Dead artilcles, 2000
522Email addresses of contributors, 2000
523Correspondence from contributors, 2000
524Steve Gurr expense accounts, 2001-2004
525Payments to contributors, 2002-2005
526List of contributors, undated
527Payments to section editors , 2001-2005
528Proofreader payments, 2005
529Interpretive essays, 2005
530-33Acknowledgment of submitted entries, 2000-2001
534Agriculture-delinquency , 2001-2002
535Architecture/historic preservation, 2001-2004
536Agriculture , 2002
537Architecture/historic preservation (delinquency), 2001-2005
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61The arts (visual), 2001-2004
62Visual arts (delinquency), 2002
63Archeology and early history, 2000-2001
64Atlanta, 2001
65Business and industry (delinquency), 2001-2002
66Business,indsutry,labor, 2001-2005
67Cities and towns (delinquent), 2001-2002
68Cities and towns , 2001-2005
69Counties, 2002-2004
610Education (higher ed), 2002-2005
611Folklife, 200-2004
612Education (k-12), 2001
613Folklife (delinquency), 2001-2002
614Features, 2001-2004
615Geography and enviroment, 2001-2005
616Geography and enviroment (delinquency), 2001-2002
617History (colonial and revolutionary), 2000-2005
618History colonial (delinquent), 2001-2002
619History, 19th century, 2000-2004
620History, 19th century (delinqent), 2001-2002
621History. 20th century, 2001-2005
622History, 20th century (delinquent), 2001-2002
623Law and government, 2001-2003
624Literature, 2000-2003
625Literature (delinquent), 2001-2002
626Literature, 2000-2002
627Military, 2001-2005
628Military (delinquency)
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71Media and communications, 2002-2004
72Media (delinquent), 2002
73Music (delinquency), 2002
74Music, 2000-2005
74Music, 2000-2004
75Politics (delinquent), 2002
76Politics, 2000-2004
77Religion, 2001-2004
78Religion (delinquency), 2001-2002
79Science,medicine,technology, 2002-2005
710Sports, 2000-2005
711Tourism and recreation, 2001-2002
712Transportation (delinquent), 2002
713Transportation, 2001-2004
714History, 19th century artlicles, 2001
715Correspondence Ed Cashin, 2000-2001
716History-colonial and revolutionary articles, undated
717Geography and the enviroment-articles, 2000-2001
718Gallery duplicates, undated
719Education articles, undated
720Features article duplicates, undated
721Business, industry, and labor duplicates, 2001
722Atlanta duplicates, 2002
723Correspondence with Liz Lyon re articles (and contributors), 2001
724Article being revised by authors, 2001
725Deliquency letters, 2000
726List of articles computer-edited, undated
727Miscellaneous, 2000-2001
728Correspondence from contributors, 2000
729Literature-pending, 2001
730Correspondence with Gwen, 2001 September 21
731Georgia trust ramble, 2000
732Music, 2000-2001
733The military, 2001
734Media/communications, 2000-2001
735Literature, 2000-2001
73619th century history, 2000
73720th century history, 2000-2001
738Colonial and revolutionary history, 2002
739Pre-17th century history, 2001
740Georgraphy, 2000-2001
741Folkways and folklife, 2000
742Enviroment, 2000-2001
743Columbus, 2000
744Women's biographies, 2000
745Business and insdustry, 2000-2001
746Arts (visual), 2000-2001
747Atlanta-miscellaneous, 2000-2001
748Religion, 2000-2001
749Politics,law,and government, 2000-2001
750Savannah, 1999-2000
751Science and medicine, 2000-2001
752Counties and towns, 2000-2001
753Urban areas (excluding atlanta), 2000
754Race and ethnicity, 2001
755Technology, 2000
756Tourism, 1999-2001
757Tansporation, 2000-2001
758Sea islands, undated
759Sports and recreation, 1999-2001
 

5. Planning Committee and Executive Committee

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81Writers, 2000
82Staffing, 2001-2006
83Section editors, 2000-2001
84Project summary, 1999
85-8Planning notes, 1998-2000
89Advisory committee, 1999
810Budget, 1999
811Encyclopedia research, 1999-2001
812Humanities eduacation center,Minnesota, 2001
813Jamil Minnesota, 2000-2001
814Grant proposals , 1998-2000
815National endowment for the humanities (NEH) application, 2000-2001
816National endowment for the humanities (NEH) implementation grant , 2002
817Grant correspondence, 1998-2000
818Encyclopedia proposals not funded , 1999-2001
819Miscellaneous , 1998-2004
820NGE briefing book, 2002
821Watson Brown foundation, 2003
823National endowment for the humanities (NEH) 2nd implementation grant , 2002-2006
824Coxe Curry fundraising consultants agreement, Nov. 2003-Feb. 2004
822Watson Brown grant proposal, 2006-2007
823University sytem of Gerogia (USG) Contract for NGE, 2006-2007
826Status reports, 2005
827Staff, 2002
828Public launch, 2003
829-31Planning notes , 1998-2004
832Multimedia center, 2005
833History link, 2003
834Correspondence with Sonny Perdue, 2003
835Budget, 2006
836Audits, 2002-2005
837National endowment for the humanities (NEH) budget form, 2002-2006
838Grant miscellaneous, 2002-2005
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91Atlas Project, 2000
92Encyclopedia of southern culture, 1998
93Encyclopedia of Appalachia, 1999-2001
94Louisville encyclopedia, 1998-2000
95Encyclopedia of New York state, 2001
96Chicago encyclopedia project , 1999-2000
97Encyclopedia of North Carolina, 1999-2001
98National endowment for the humanities (NEH), 2000-2001
99Handbook of Texas online, 1999-2001
910Texas handbook samples, 2002
911Worldbook cd-rom, undated
912PBS.org, 2000
913Encyclopedia of the midwest, 2000
914SOLINET, 2000
915West Virginia encylcopedia, undated
916Encyclopedia of Seattle and King County, Washington (online), 2000-2001
917Other encylcopedias (miscellaneous), 2000-2001
918Georgia foundation, undated
919NGE conference, 2000-2001
920Progress reports, 2000
921Invitations to Macon meetings, 2000-2001
922National endowment for the humanities (NEH) state and regional encyclopedia workshop, 2000
923General descriptions of encyclopedia, 1998-2000
924Intial entries-possibilities, 2000
925NGE section-Listerv , 2000
926Correspondence with database prgrammers and website designers, 1999-2000
927Section editors contact info, undated
928Sections and section editors , 2000
929Articles for Sheree Dendy, 2002
930Advisory board , 2001-2001
931Briefing book, 2002
932Sample letters,contracts, and forms, 2000-2001
933Center for the study of southern culture (Unviersity of Mississippi), 2000
934Encarta.com, 2000
935Georgia council for the arts, 2001
936Georgia pulbic televison (GPTV)-Gerogia stories, 2001
937Meetings with Merrill-Hall, 2000-2001
938Merrill Hall, 2001-2003
939Publishing tool, 2001
940Flash (for public face), 2001
941Early discussions of planning committee, 1998-1999
942Outlines, undated
943Miscellaneous notes , 2001
944Invitations to section editors workshop , 2000
945Columbus town meeting , 2000
946Miscellaneous notes , 2000
947Technical committee, 1999
948Early travel statewide contacts, 1999
949Section editors' lidt of articles and contributors , 2001
950Section editors' list of continued , 2000-2001
951Soft launch, 2001-2002
952Merrill Hall statements of work , 2002-2003
953-54Merrill Hall progress reports , 2002-2003
955Merrill Hall statements of work , 2000-2001
956NGE project report , undated
 

6. Assistant Editor

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101Conferences with Merrill Hall , 2000-2001
102NGE publicity, 1998-2005
103Press clippings , 2001-2002
104List of articles for NGE launch , 2003
105October Launch , 2003
106NGE progress report, 2001-2003
10710NGE audit figures and budget projections , 2000-2004
108Master lists of articles , 2003
109Georgia humanities council (GHC) audit NGE figures , 2005
1010University of Georgia (UGA) personnel contributors to NGE , 2003
1011Section editors who agree to continue serving , 2002
1012Section editors addresses, 2002
1013University of Georgia (UGA) press phone list , 2000-2005
1014Georgia humanities council (GHC) briefing book, 2002
1015Kudos letters, 2004-2006
1016List of overview articles recommendation, 2004
1017Ed Jackson, 2005
1018National historic landmarks by state, undated
1019Permissions , 2006
1020User comments and change request , 2005-2006
1021Comments and questions, 2004
1022Comments on NGE needing reply , 2004-2005
1023Contract writers guideline, undated
1024Contract writers Chris Huff, Barton Myers, 2005
1025City and towns profiles, undated
1026County profiles, undated
1027Architecture and historic preservation:being reviewed by selection editor, 2002-2004
1028Military:being reviewed by section editor, 2002-2003
1029Politics:being reviewed by section editor, 2002-2003
1030Appalachian Georgia , undated
1031Phase one articles/authors, 2005-2006
1032Agriculture , 2000-2005
1033Archeology/early history, undated
1034Architecture/historic preservation, 2000-2006
1035Business and industry, 2002-2005
1036Cities and counties, 2002-2005
1037Education, 2002
1038Folklife, 2001
1039Geography/enviroment, 2001-2006
1040History-20th century, 2001-2003
1041Law,government,politics, 2003-2006
1042Literature , 2000-2003
1043Media , 2001-2003
1044Military , 2002
1045Music, 2000-2003
1044Religion, 2001-2003
1047Science/Medicine, 2000-2003
1048Sports and recreation, 2001-2003
1049Transportation, 2003
1050Arts, visual/performing, 2004
1051History-19th century, undated
1052History,colonial/revolutionary, 2001-2002
1053Section editor's topics, 2000
1054Dead articles , 2002-2004
1055"No" topics, 2004-2007
1056Phase two notes, 2003-2006
1057Topic suggestions, 2004
1058Payments,authors, and fact checkers, 2002-2005
1059Jazz feature, 2004
1060Brenau University art gallery, undated
1061Encyclopedia of slavery, 1996
1062Liz Cooksey file, 2005-2006
 

7. Media Editor

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1063Lists, 2004-2005
1064Tubman museum, 2004-2005
1065Museum of aviation, 2003-2013
1066Art rosenbaum gallery, 2000-2004
1067Lindbergh day in Atlanta, 2005
1068Lindbergh's souther field,then and now, 2005
1069Souther field, undated
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111Brenau University art gallery , 2004
112Columbus museum gallery, 2004-2006
113Mighty eighth, 2004
114Capitol museum gallery , 2003-2004
115No crorrespondence article, 2002
116Public health in Georgia, 2001
117Angie Cook gallery, Blue Rifge Mountain arts center, 2003
118Langobardi, Pam, 2004
119Declined, 2001-2003
1110Nancy Love insect illustrations, 2003-2004
1111Barbara Schreiber gallery, 2004
1112Susan Cipcic gallery, 2004
1113Janice Metzel gallery , 2004
1114Sandra Hughes gallery, masks, gallery, 2004
1115Archival searches completed, 2001-2002
1116Assistant media editor, 2003-2005
1117'Banner' graphics notation, undated
1118Burrison, John- folk artists contacts, 2001-2002
1119Contacts, 2001-2002
11202004-2005
1121Development , 2001-2004
1122Filemaker ecport to pubtool, 2004
1123Flash gallery templates and development, 2005
1124Forms (University of Georgia related permissions), 2000
1125Gallery/feature/destination mock-ups, 2006
1126Georgia council for the arts, 2003
1127Georgia humanities council, 2001-2002
1128Georgia music hall of fame , 2000-2001
1129Georgia public broadcasting (GPB) audio, 2005-2006
1130Georgia State library information, 2002
1131Hambridge center edit decision list, 2003
1132Hargrett Rare Books and manuscript , 2003
1133Henry, Susan, 2001
1134-35Illustration issues, 2002-2005
1136IP contacts, undated
1137Media standards, undated
1138Merrill-Hall correspondence , 2001-2002
1139Miscellaneous from (MSM), undated
1140Multimedia, 2004-2005
1141Multimedia center, 2005
1142Music (general), 2004
1143Object movie caption information, undated
1144Photographic services, 2001-2005
1145Revisit, 2004
1146Sandifer,Benjamin, 2001
1147Section outlines, 2001
1148State symbols, 2004
1149Storytellers (SOS), undated
1150Style sheets, 2004
1151Supplies, 2001
1152Technology correspondence, 1999-2001
1153Unused media, 2006
1154User Feedback NGE, 2004-2006
1155Vegas, undated
1156West Georgia Collefe information, undated
1157Shropshire,Forrest, 2001
1158Woodruff Library, Emory , 2001
1159Vinson, Carl, 2001
1160Center of Georgia studies (Georgia College and State University), 2005
 

8. Publicity

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12Electronic media