Athens-Clarke County Library, Headquarters2025 Baxter Street · Athens, Georgia 30606 · 706.613.3650
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The Heritage Room in the Athens-Clarke County Library seeks to serve serious students of all ages information relating to Georgia history, local history, and genealogy.
During the renovation, the genealogical materials have been moved to the Athens-Clarke County Library's reference area on the second floor and are available for use during regular library hours.
heritageroom@arlsmail.org
HOURS & GENERAL INFORMATION
- Operation during the Renovation
The Heritage Room will be closed during the renovation of the library. We will be moving part of our collection to Reference. We will have a large portion of our microfilm collection out in that area along with the digital reader printer and one reader. We will have a large portion of our genealogy book collection available, but most of our general history collection will be in storage. Periodicals except for current issues will be in storage as well.
The databases will still be available on computers in the Reference area - Ancestry Library Edition still only in a library building and Heritage Quest Online and Footnote.com available from home and in the library.
Interlibrary loan materials that need to be used in-house can still be ordered and will be made available through the Reference desk. This includes microfilm and books from other repositories. This is not PINES holds and loans.
Please call the Reference Desk (706-613-3650 ext 356) or email the heritage staff (heritageroom@arlsmail.org) if you have any questions. - Donations
Please consider donating your genealogical/historical materials to the Heritage Collection when you have finished using them. Donations may be tax deductible. Contact us for more information.
RESEARCH POLICIES & FEES
- Access
View the Official Heritage Room Policy Regarding Access
excerpts from this policy:
With essential security restrictions, the collection in the Heritage Room is available for serious students of Georgia history, local history and genealogy of all ages, from the beginner to the experienced researcher.
Written research questions via Internet, e-mail, fax, and U.S. Postal service will be answered by staff as time permits at the fees listed in the Fines/Fees schedule. No research questions received over the phone will be answered. Staff will be happy to fax or mail a form to people calling with research questions. (Research questions are more detailed and complex than reference questions and tend to take more than 10 minutes to research and answer via telephone.) If a patron who calls long distance cannot wait on the phone for the answer to a reference question, they should call back later to get the answer. - Reproduction & Usage
View the Official Heritage Room Policy Regarding Reproduction & Usage
excerpts from this policy:
Before material (print, manuscript, photographic, illustrative or other formats) from the collections of the Heritage Room may be quoted in print, or otherwise reproduced, in whole or in part, in any publication, permission must be obtained from 1) the owner of the physical property, and 2) the holder of the copyright. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain both sets of permission.
The Heritage Room, the Athens-Clarke County Library or the Athens Regional Library System are not responsible for any illegal or improper use of material from its collection or reproduction of same.
Reproductions may not be made for or donated to other collections, libraries, archives, museums, or other repositories by the applicant without prior written consent of the Library Director. - Loans
View the Official Heritage Room Policy Regarding Loans
excerpts from this policy:
Materials will not be removed from the Heritage Room without the authorization of the Library Director or the Heritage Room Librarian/Specialist. As a general rule, only materials which the Heritage Room has duplicate copies of will be available for Interlibrary Loan. These may be loaned to other institutions with an "In Library Use Only" stipulation. When the physical condition of material permits, photocopies may be made. It is unlikely that materials donated to the Heritage Room for a particular collection ie. Phinizy Spalding Collection, will be loaned even in the instance of duplicate copies. - Fines & Fees
- Microform Reader/printer - $.10/page
- Archival copy charge - $.25/page
- Extra large paper copy charge - $.50/page
- Research Fees:
- Georgia residents: $15.00/hour
- Non-Georgia residents: $25.00/hour
- Fees should accompany request for information and are non-refundable. The fee for each search will include the following: (1) up to 12 photocopies for most orders with a citation of the source, or (2) a Report of Search, indicating all sources searched if no information
NEWS
The Heritage Room Closes for the Renovation
The Heritage Room may be temporarily closing but that doesn't mean your genealogy research has to temporarily stop. The Heritage Room will close August 1, 2011 for the building's renovation and will have only part of its resources in the Reference area until the building is complete, probably in 2013.
The following handouts explain the databases, web sites and tools you can use from home to continue your genealogy research:
- A Miscellany of Online Resources: Ancestry, Cyndi, FamilySearch and Steve
- Family History Library Catalog
- Footnote Viewer Features and Options *Please Note* Footnote changed its name to Fold3 on August 18, 2011. All links and features remain the same.
- A Stroll Through Footnote *Please Note* Footnote changed its name to Fold3 on August 18, 2011. All links and features remain the same.
- Tomes on the 'Tubes...Internet, That Is - Handout
- Tomes on the 'Tubes...Internet, That Is - Powerpoint
- Heritage Quest Online™ - Books and PERSI
- Maps
"This Day in Athens" Blog
"This Day in Athens" is the blog for the Heritage Room. In addition to updates on events, classes, and new books, the site will have a couple of history items every week. Subjects will range from milestone events and important people in our history to newspaper stories and notices that provide a peek into daily life of Athens, Georgia in another era. For each post, we'll provide links to the Athens-Clarke County Library online catalog and other websites where you can learn more about the subjects covered in the post. We hope you'll enjoy our blog!