Map and Government Information Library of UGA Libraries in the Spotlight!

By  Hallie Pritchett

The Map and Government Information Library (MAGIL) opened its doors in the summer of 2012, making it the newest of the UGA Libraries. Created by the merger of the former Map Library and the University of Georgia Libraries' extensive government documents collections, the Map and Government Information Library is located in the sub-basement of the Main Library on UGA’s North Campus. Its mission is to provide bibliographic, physical and intellectual access to cartographic and government information in all formats.  The UGA Libraries serves as Georgia’s regional Federal Depository Library as well as the official depository for documents published by the State of Georgia. Its government documents collections also include select international and United Nations documents. 

MAGIL is home to one of the largest academic map collections in the country, with over 400,000 sheet maps from all over the world – with a particular emphasis on the State of Georgia – as well as the largest collection of aerial photographs of Georgia outside the National Archives. The collections also include a wide variety of domestic and international atlases, Georgia city directories, and digital geospatial data.  In addition to maps and government documents, MAGIL has a GIS Lab with an array of software that allows users to create maps and perform spatial analysis, and large format scanners and printers that allow users to digitize and reproduce maps and other materials from our collections.

Maps and government documents have been an integral part of the UGA Libraries for well over a hundred years.  Although UGA was officially designated a Federal Depository Library in 1907, there is evidence to suggest that depository status may have been granted as early as the 1850s.  The former Map Library first came into existence in the late 1960s, when map collections from the Libraries and the UGA Geography Department were combined to create the Map Room in the Science Library.  When the Map Room’s space was converted into a server room in 2005, the map collection was moved to an off-campus warehouse and renamed the Map Library. The plan to combine the map and government documents collections to create a new library dates back to 2008. Once the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies moved to its new home in the newly-built Special Collections Libraries Building in 2011, the space they formerly occupied in the Main Library was remodeled as the future home of the Map and Government Information Library.  

MAGIL provides resources and services to UGA students, staff, and faculty as well as state, regional, national, and international researchers.  For further information about the Map and Government Information Library and its collections and services, please visit our website: www.libs.uga.edu/magil.

FREE GLA Carterette Series Webinar - December 9, 2015

Privacy in the Surveillance Age: How Librarians Can Fight Back.
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
2pm Eastern (11am Pacific | 12pm Mountain | 1pm Central)
Register: https://goo.gl/6Qelrm

Description:  
In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA and FBI dragnet surveillance, many Americans are concerned that their rights to privacy and intellectual freedom are under threat. But librarians are perfectly positioned to help our communities develop strategies to protect themselves against unwanted surveillance. In this webinar, Alison Macrina and April Glaser of the Library Freedom Project will talk about the landscape of surveillance, the work of the LFP, and some tips and tools librarians can use to resist pervasive surveillance in the digital age.

About the Presenters:

Alison Macrina is a librarian, privacy rights activist, and the founder and director of the Library Freedom Project, an initiative which aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by teaching librarians and their local communities about surveillance threats, privacy rights and law, and privacy-protecting technology tools to help safeguard digital freedoms. Alison is passionate about connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies and giant multinational corporations. When she’s not doing any of that, she’s reading.

April Glaser is a writer and an activist with the Library Freedom Project. She currently works as a mobilization specialist at Greenpeace USA, where she focuses on ending oil extraction in the Arctic. Prior to Greenpeace, April was at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, organizing around the net neutrality campaign and EFF’s grassroots programming. April also previously worked with the Prometheus Radio Project, where her efforts helped propel the passage of the Local Community Radio Act, the largest expansion of community radio in U.S. history. She lives in Oakland, California and continues to work with local organizations on a range of digital rights issues.

Can't make it to the live show? That's okay. The session will be recorded and available on the Carterette Series Webinars site for later viewing.
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GLQ Fall 2015 Issue Now Available

The fall 2015 issue of the Georgia Library Quarterly is now available at: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/

• Visit Georgia Library Spotlight section to read about Atlanta Technical College, Mercer University and Savannah College of Art and Design libraries.
• Learn about a librarians private library.
• Read a peer-reviewed article: Circulating Laptops in a Two-Year Academic Library: A Formative Assessment by Wendy S. Wilmoth.
• Check out the GLA 2016 election results.
• Catch up on the latest news at Georgia libraries and read book reviews!

Professional Development Events in November

This list is provided by Georgia Public Library Service.
Visit the GPLS CE Calendar for the program descriptions and to register.

ADVOCACY
Nov. 17: Graphic Design 101 (CSL in Session)
Nov. 17: Beyond the Survey: a practical approach to interviews and focus groups (Infopeople)
ASSESSMENT & PLANNING
Nov. 12: Article, author and journal metrics: what librarians need to know (Library Connect)
Nov. 17: Beyond the Survey: a practical approach to interviews and focus groups (Infopeople)

CATALOGING
Nov. 18: The New Library of Congress CIP Data Block: Making it Work for You! (American Association of School Librarians)
Nov. 25: Life After MARC: Cataloging Tools of the Future (Nebraska Library Commission)

CHILDREN & TEENS
Nov. 12: Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s: Curriculum Activities to Expand Children’s Favorite Books (EdWeb.net)
Nov. 17: New Youth Nonfiction for Fall and Beyond (Booklist)
Nov. 17: Secrets of the Remix Mash-up YouTube Generation (School Library Journal)
Nov. 19: Database of the Month: Wyoming History Day (Wyoming State Library)
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT
Nov. 5: Diversity in Children's Literature: A Conversation with Illustrator R. Gregory Christie (Georgia Public Library Service)
Nov. 10: Best Practices for Large Print: Ideas, Resources and Reads (Booklist)
Nov. 17: New Youth Nonfiction for Fall and Beyond (Booklist)

LIBRARY SPACES
Nov. 12: Designing a Library, Part I (Georgia Public Library Service)
Nov. 18: Inspire Your Community with an Innovation Lab (Nebraska Library Commission)
Nov. 18: Library as Center for Innovation (DEMCO)

MANAGEMENT
Nov. 12: LLAMA Thought Leaders Series: Rebekkah Smith Aldrich (ALA Library Leadership & Management Association)

OUTREACH & PARTNERSHIPS
Nov. 11: Discover National Library of Medicine Resources and More (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
Nov. 16: Community Building in Schools (Idaho Commission for Libraries)
Nov. 19: Strengthening Communities through Technology (Missouri State Library)
PROGRAMMING
Nov. 19: “Why Fit In When You Were Born to Stand Out?”: Programming Using eBook Biographies (Booklist)

READERS’ ADVISORY
Nov. 3: From Struggling Readers to Striving Readers: The Complexities of Hi-Lo Books (Booklist)
Nov. 10: Best Practices for Large Print: Ideas, Resources and Reads (Booklist)

REFERENCE
Nov. 11: Making Peace with United Nations Data: Learn to navigate UN data information sources (North Carolina Library Association)
Nov. 11: Discover National Library of Medicine Resources and More (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
Nov. 12: Power Searching (American Libraries)
Nov. 18: Breezing Along with the RML (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)

SCHOOL LIBRARIES
Nov. 12: Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s: Curriculum Activities to Expand Children’s Favorite Books (EdWeb.net)
Nov. 16: Community Building in Schools (Idaho Commission for Libraries)
Nov. 17: Secrets of the Remix Mash-up YouTube Generation (School Library Journal)
Nov. 17: Loose Strands and SEL: Using the Choose Your Path Format to Talk about Difficult Decisions (American Association of School Librarians)
Nov. 18: The New Library of Congress CIP Data Block: Making it Work for You! (American Association of School Librarians)
Nov. 19: “Why Fit In When You Were Born to Stand Out?”: Programming Using eBook Biographies (Booklist)

TECHNOLOGY
Nov. 18: Breezing Along with the RML (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)
Nov. 18: Inspire Your Community with an Innovation Lab (Nebraska Library Commission)
Nov. 18: Library as Center for Innovation (DEMCO)
Nov. 19: Strengthening Communities through Technology (Missouri State Library)

TRAINING & INSTRUCTION
Nov. 19: Digital Badging in the Library Community (Infopeople)

GLA Meet-up in Savannah Area - December 4, 2015

The Georgia Library Association (GLA) Membership Committee is pleased to announce a meet-up in Savannah area.

This event will be held from 3-5 p.m. on Friday, December 4.  

If you are near Chatham, Bryan, Bullock, Effingham, Liberty counties, this is for you!

Location:
Savannah College of Art and Design - Jen Library
201 E Broughton Street
Savannah, GA 31401

This meet-up is opened to all library staff and is an opportunity to meet fellow library professionals in an informal setting and learn more about getting involved in GLA.  Light refreshments will be served.

If you have any questions, please contact the Membership Committee chair, Karen Manning, at karen.manning@library.gatech.edu.

Please share this information with your colleagues.  We hope you can make it!