When all of the study rooms are full and you have to Zoom outside…⠀ ⠀ But seriously, we recommend staying warm and logging in at the 4th floor study room where talking is allowed. It’s a great Zoom Zone! 
In 2015, Dr. Cynthia Camp used the Special Collections Faculty Fellows Program to launch multi-year courses centered around the medieval manuscripts held by Hargrett Library. The Hargrett Hours Exhibit showcases some of the types of items students have explored in the Hargrett Hours courses and what they discovered about these medieval manuscripts along the way. It showcases Dr. Camp’s innovative teaching techniques, and the hands-on projects that helped bring the 15th century to life for today’s UGA students. ⠀ ⠀ Join Hargrett Library today for a 2 pm virtual panel discussion on the new exhibit. The link to the live panel is on the UGA Special Collections Library Facebook page.⠀ ⠀ Learn more about the exhibit and exhibit hours through the link in our bio! @hargrettlibrary 
Not long after the UGA Libraries Special Collections Building opened in 2012, a group of African American community elders in Athens began discussion on the need and opportunity for local Black history to be collected. In 2014, the Athens, Georgia African American Oral History Initiative began with a model that centers the African American experience through community-led oral and public history and develops effective communication collaborations. This Oral History Initiative has received numerous grants over the years and the work collected through this program has been featured in various UGA classes.⠀ ⠀ Please visit the link in our biography to check out a list of Oral History Collections and read the rest of this article from page 20 of the Beyond the Pages Fall edition. 
Through his writings and speeches, Martin Luther King, Jr. has taught us so much about hope and perseverance through hard times and how education can help. On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we encourage our patrons to explore King’s writings through the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame collection or through reading books written about him. We have many resources available online today that you can find on our website, and you can check some out in person at the Main Library when we reopen tomorrow.#MLKDay 
Hargrett Library also partnered with the Digital Library of Georgia to digitize the Omer Clyde Aderhold Papers in anticipation of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of UGA. Visit the link in our bio to view the digital collection. (@hargettlibrary)⠀ ⠀ In January 1961, Charlayne Hunter Gault and Hamilton Holmes became the first two African American students to attend UGA. Omer Clyde Aderhold was the president of UGA from 1950 to 1967 and this collection documents the administrative business of UGA during Aderhold’s time as president and the beginning of UGA’s desegregation. 
In anticipation of the 60th anniversary of the desegregation of the University of Georgia, Hargrett Library partnered with the Digital Library of Georgia to digitize the William Tate Desegregation Files. This collection is freely available to explore through the link in our bio.⠀ ⠀ Materials in this collection serve to keep a record of the steps involved in desegregating UGA and explore a variety of public opinions on these events at the time. William Tate, Dean of Men at UGA from 1946 -1971, played a large role in overseeing and responding to student conduct in the aftermath of desegregation.