The following projects have been made for GCSU's Ina Dillard Russell Library:
Peace & War
Peace & War, curated by Evan Leavitt, MLIS, is a digital exhibit that explores the Vietnam experience through the lens of the Georgia College student-run newspaper, The Colonnade, demonstrating the parallels found between campus opinion and the national experience during this tumultuous time. Oral histories from local veterans and alumni present the juxtaposition of experiences found between student and solider, and how far-reaching cultural issues created a divisive environment that made one feel as if the nation was falling apart.
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The Soul of Georgia
The Soul of Georgia exhibit created by Evan Leavitt, MLIS, for the Ina Dillard Russell Library for the Special Collections Galleries, explores the history of R&B and soul music, and the impact and contributions made by these genres in Milledgeville and throughout the state of Georgia.
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To Be Uninvited Guests
To Be Uninvited Guests, a digital exhibit curated by Evan Leavitt, MLIS, in consultation and collaboration with the Muscogee Nation Department of Historical and Cultural Preservation, investigates the destructive history inflicted upon Georgia’s original inhabitants by the European invasion of North America.
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Native Sons Lost: The Vietnam War Dead of Milledgeville, Georgia
Native Sons Lost is a digital exhibit that utilizes research into the nine Milledgeville veterans who died in the Vietnam War that was undertaken during the spring 2021 semester by students in a GCSU Communication Department course, The Vietnam War in the Media. The student’s research is available in its original form through the Georgia College Knowledge Box. This digital exhibit, curated by Evan Leavitt, MLIS, compiles the research, and provides additional contextual information on the Vietnam War and military mortuary practices, to illuminate the military’s ongoing desire to honor those that give their lives for their country. Student contributors: Bailey Ballard, Eric Boyd, Christina Bugg, Brett Daise, Alex Davidson, Kaitlyn Doran, Kevin Duer, Jack Gaertner, Kate Goggin, Nina Hardin, Matt Hartnett, Sarah Jacobs, Madison Miles, Lauren Miller, Brick Nelson, Johnathan O’Brien, Carter Pitts, Ryan Robichaud, Katie Roman, Davis Shaw, Jordan Stewart, and Joel White.
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Common Heritage
The Common Heritage digital exhibit, curated by Evan Leavitt, MLIS, was made possible through the Common Heritage Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to capture the underrepresented history of the Milledgeville African American community. The exhibit reflects on how the African American community has made change, and gained incremental advance that collectively would transform the race’s agency, the self-determination to act independently and make their own free choices. African Americans, by creating their own organizations and institutions, developed ways to address their needs and aspirations that fostered the values of community, service, and mutual support.
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Central State Hospital
The Central State Hospital (CSH) digital exhibit, curated by Evan Leavitt, MLIS, was made possible, in partnership with the Middle Georgia Regional Library System, through the Georgia Public Library Service Digital Exhibits Pilot Program, an initiative to empower libraries to use their unique digitized materials to tell the stories of their libraries and communities. The exhibit presents the importance and impact nursing and the associated nursing school at CSH had on the care and treatment of the patients at the institution.
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