Upcoming Events

Jul 26
Summer 2025 Free the Tapes

Free the Tapes: Summer Edition!

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!

1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries, 271
Aug 02
Grooms GWHOF Induction

When Fiction Remembers: A Conversation on Fiction, History, and the Art of Storytelling with author Anthony Grooms and filmmaker Jesse Freeman

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.

1:00 pm to 3:00 pm , Auditorium
Aug 19
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UGA Libraries FACTS. Fair

11:00 am to 1:00 pm Zell B. Miller Learning Center
Aug 20
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UGA Libraries FACTS. Fair

11:00 am to 1:00 pm Main Library
Aug 21
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UGA Libraries FACTS. Fair

11:00 am to 1:00 pm Science Library
Sep 18
Blum GWHOF Induction

What's On The Table? Food Safety in Georgia, the South, and Beyond with author and science journalist Deborah Blum and Dr. Francisco Diez-Gonzalez

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.

6:00 pm Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries, Auditorium