Hargrett Library

Heads up, SCL patrons! We’ve updated our visitor parking process. While check in is still required, we will now issue parking codes instead of parking validation. This means you must RETURN to Hull Street Deck to type your code into the kiosk on the 3rd level.

These @universityofga students were candlepin bowling at the Bulldog Bowling Alley, which was located on Broad St. in @DowntownAthens in the late 1940s. Photo from our archives. #UGA #TBT

Elite work by Jason Hasty and @hargrettlibrary.

Face front, true believers! The time has come to take your First Steps into the cosmos at the UGA Special Collections Libraries! Explore history, pop culture, politics, and more! We promise not to bombard you with cosmic rays! Excelsior! #fantasticfour #nasa #specialcollections

We love Media's Free The Tapes Guy so much, we got him in every format: buttons, stickers, magnets galore! There just might be another version of him for Bingo winners only👀There’s only one way to find out! Join us this Saturday at 1pm for “Free the Tapes: Summer Edition”

UGA Libraries staff members toured the Georgia Music Collections exhibit at the Akins for Arena this morning and a good time was had by all! The next public tour of the exhibit is coming up on Thursday, August 21st at 6:30pm with our Music and Popular Culture Curator Ryan Lewis!

As heard on recent episodes of @mygodapodcast! Go check out our historical man, Jason, at UGA Athletics' Antiques Roadshow! #GoDawgs

Our "UGA Athletics in Your Town" tour continues this week with stops at the Tifton-Tift County Library and the Laurens County Library. Join us for this free, family-friendly exhibit of over 60 artifacts from the @UGAAthletics archive. #UGA #GoDawgs

Athens is a vibrant town that is enhanced by its small businesses. And many of these small business owners have relied on the UGA Small Business Development Center as a source of advice and support. Over the past five years the SBDC has provided consulting to 428 entrepreneurs,…

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the Superman radio show Peabody Awards submission from 1948! You never know what you'll find exploring the UGA Special Collections Libraries. From modern popular culture to ancient artifacts, there is something for everyone!

A view of College Square in @DowntownAthens in the 1980s. Photo from our archives. #UGA #TBT

Took the kids to see Hasty’s @hargrettlibrary History: Live! Good times as always with our Historic Man Jason in Marietta. Check him out on the next stop! See below!

Join us today from 11am-4pm at the Switzer Library in Marietta for this free display of artifacts from the @UGAAthletics archive! #GoDawgs

Join us this Wednesday, July 16, from 11am-4pm at the Switzer Library in Marietta for the next stop of our "UGA Athletics in Your Town" tour! This is a free exhibit of over 60 artifacts from the @UGAAthletics archive. #UGA #GoDawgs

We are so excited to have Athens Poet Laureate Mikhayla Robinson Smith open Anthony Grooms's Georgia Writers Hall of Fame Induction event on August 2nd. Grooms will discuss storytelling and the role of history and fiction with filmmaker Jesse Freeman. Open to the public!

Getting a bite to eat from a campus hot dog cart, circa the late 1990s. Photo from our archive. #UGA #TBT

Our 'UGA Athletics in Your Town' tour continues next week with a stop at the Switzer Library in Marietta. Join us between 11am-4pm on Wednesday, July 16th, for this free display of historic artifacts from the @UGAAthletics archive! #UGA #GoDawgs

This fall, Special Collections will be recruiting a new class of student docents! If you are an undergraduate student who is interested in archival research and working in museum settings, this is the program for you. The application is now live! libs.uga.edu/scl/programs/s…

UGA Special Collections is closed today, Friday, July 4th, in honor of Independence Day. We will see you all on Monday, July 7th! 20th century postcards from the Hargrett Postcard Collection

A view of the Taco Stand in @DowntownAthens in the 1990s. Photo from our archives. #UGA #AthensGA #TBT

Mark your calendars for Saturday, August 2nd for Anthony "Tony" Grooms's formal induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Listen to Grooms and filmmaker Jesse Freeman discuss storytelling's nuances, enjoy Grooms's readings, and grab one of Grooms's books at a pop-up sale!