Supporting Scholarship and Research
Katrina Jackson and Wendy Harrison
Georgia Southern University
Thursday May 15, 2014
 Housed within Special Collections at Zach S.
Henderson Library are rare books, manuscript
collections and artifacts relating to the history of the
Statesboro region and Georgia Southern University.
 History department graduate Public History
Certificate program
 Interns
 History department graduate assistants
 Paid through History department, experience in the
field
 History Department
 Dia de los Muertos
 Bibliographic instruction
 Intro to Special Collections librarianship
 Political Science Department
 Archival instruction
 Art Department
 Exhibits
 Bernie Solomon Collection
 Instruction sessions
 Museum
 Exhibits
 Inter-Library Loan
 Loaning/scanning of Special Collections material to
make available for patrons through these types of
requests
 Government Documents
 Exhibits
 Legacy Book Collection (in collaboration with
Collection & Resource Services)
 Re-classifying some older books as legacy books so they
can circulate
 Bulloch County Historical Society
 “Rambling through Bulloch” newsletters
 Bulloch County Retired Teachers Association
 Scrapbooks
 Daughters of the American Colonists
 Scrapbooks
 Brannen Family
 Scrapbooks
 Entire organizational history
 Organization publications
 Annual conference
 History department students conducting oral histories
 Criminal Justice department
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 Sheet Music Collection
 Francis Harper Photographs
 Commander William M.
Rigdon Photographs
 Marvin Pittman and a Legacy
of Educational Excellence
 Digital Special Collections