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Presentation: The Origins of Labor-Union Democracy: A US-British Comparison

Presentation: The Origins of Labor-Union Democracy: A US-British Comparison Matthew Dimick, winner of the 2009 Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History, will present on his topic on Friday, November 20, 2009. The presentation will be held at noon in the Colloquium Room at the Georgia State University Library (Library South, 8th Floor). The presentation [...]
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Exhibit – The Investiture of President Mark P. Becker

Come witness history in the making at Georgia State University! The Georgia State University Library is celebrating the Investiture of President Mark P. Becker with an exhibit on Library North’s first floor. The case behind our broadcast screen will display recognitions of the event from institutions around the nation. Our exhibit case next to Saxbys entrance [...]
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Unscrambling the Eggs: Eastern Air Lines, Delta Air Lines, and the Deregulated Era

Benjamin van der Horst, winner of the 2009 Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History, will present his research on Friday, October 16, 2009. The event will be held at noon in Classroom 2 of the Georgia State University Library (2nd Floor of Library North). Van der Horst currently works as a research analyst for [...]
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Reed Fellowship is now the Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History

The Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History is now the Reed Fink Award in Southern Labor History. Professors Merl E. Reed and Gary Fink were instrumental in the establishment, development, and use of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University from the early 1970s. Today, the Southern Labor Archives has over 500 collections used [...]
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Hilary Morrish Receives 2009 Historic Preservation Achievement Award

Without people like Hilary Morrish, we might forget Atlanta’s older neighborhoods. On May 20th 2009, Morrish (a Georgia State University Library Technical Assistant) received the 2009 Historic Preservation Achievement Award from the Georgia Historic Preservation Division. Her contribution is significant to the historic preservation of Georgia, as Morrish and others documented the Collier Heights neighborhood [...]
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2009 Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History – Award Winners

2009 Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History – Award Winners  Three recipients were recently selected to receive the Merl E. Reed Fellowship in Southern Labor History:   ·         Matthew Dimick, graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research topic is “Labor Law and Union Democracy: A British-U.S. [...]
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“Winning Hearts”: A Eudora Welty Centennial Exhibition

Are you a Eudora Welty fan?  If not, you could be!  The 100th anniversary of her birthday is Monday, April 13, 2009.  To help celebrate, the University Library’s Special Collections & Archives has an exhibit of rare books, manuscripts, artifacts, and audio recordings for your viewing and listening pleasure. “Winning Hearts”:  A Eudora Welty Centennial Exhibition University [...]
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Joseph Jacobs Labor Scholarship

Joseph Jacobs Labor Scholarship Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University Library and Georgia State University Labor Studies Department The Joseph Jacobs Labor Scholarship Fund was established in 1983 to honor Joseph Jacobs, a long-time labor attorney who represented unions in Georgia, by the Organized Labor and Workmen’s Circle Awards Committee and the North Georgia Building and Construction [...]
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Presentation: How Can History Help the Labor Movement?

Presentation: “How Can History Help the Labor Movement?: Three episodes from the working-class African American freedom struggle in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.”   Dr. Lisa Gayle Hazirjian will present on “How Can History Help the Labor Movement?: Three episodes from the working-class African American freedom struggle in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.” She is the recipient [...]
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Current Science Journals Moving

Beginning on Thursday, January 22, current issues of the science journals on Library South 3 will be moving to Library North 1 and will be integrated with the rest of the current periodical issues. This project will take several weeks. The space created on LS3 will allow for all of the bound Q periodicals to [...]
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