Upcoming Events

The Athens Art Book Fair was established to spotlight the critical relationship between contemporary art and publishing with a regional focus on the Southeast. The third annual 

Mark your calendars for Free the Tapes: Summer Edition!

Free the Tapes, an event highlighting digitized audiovisual materials from members of the community, is back this summer at UGA Special Collections! Join us on Saturday, July 26th, 2025, from 1PM-3PM to view clips of newly digitized and preserved videos from our community, play bingo, interact with different AV formats and equipment, and learn more about our archives!

Join the UGA Special Collections Libraries on Saturday, August 2nd at 1pm at the Athens-Clarke County Library for the induction of 2025 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductee Anthony "Tony" Grooms, celebrated author of Bombingham and The Vain Conversation. Grooms is an award-winning author, poet, and educator of creative writing for over 30 years. Known for his powerful portrayals of the Civil Rights era and the enduring struggles of the American South, Grooms uses fiction to bridge memory and history with deep emotional insight.

At UGA Libraries, we’ve got FACTS, and we don’t just mean the information that you can access through our books, online journals, databases, and other resources.

At UGA Libraries, we’ve got FACTS, and we don’t just mean the information that you can access through our books, online journals, databases, and other resources.

At UGA Libraries, we’ve got FACTS, and we don’t just mean the information that you can access through our books, online journals, databases, and other resources.

Join the Special Collections Libraries on Thursday, September 18th at 5:30pm at Cine for a screening of David Zieger's and Eric Mofford's documentary "Displaced in the New South". 

Currently on display in the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies is the photography project by David Zieger of the same name. It features photographs, negatives, and other artifacts from the documentary to showcase the shifting demographics, experience of immigrant families, and the emerging communities formed. 

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Join the UGA Special Collections Libraries on Tuesday, September 23rd at 6pm for the induction of 2025 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame inductee Deborah Blum, celebrated author of The Poisoner’s Handbook (2010) and The Poison Squad (2018). Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer, who's career in investigative science journalism began here at the University of Georgia, where she was a student reporter for The Red & Black. Known for her works about chemistry and toxicology, Blum uses her works to illuminate the existence of poisons in our everyday lives, as well as our history.