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Sponsors

Your organization can help support Georgia Archives Institute by becoming a sponsor. Recent sponsors of GAI include the following:

• HFGroup

• Preserve South

• Preservation Technologies, L.P.

• Hollinger Metal Edge

• Digital Library of Georgia

• BMS CAT

• Patterson Pope

Contact us for more information on becoming a sponsor.

Scholarships

The following organizations offer tuition scholarships to the Institute. Please contact these institutions for information and application deadlines, which may be different from the application deadline for the Institute.

• The Society of Georgia Archivists, https://soga.wildapricot.org/, awards the Carroll Hart Scholarship.

• The Friends of Georgia Archives and History, www.fogah.org, offers the Sarah O. Dunaway Scholarship.

• *March 1 2022 - FOGAH is having some website problems, so if you have any questions you can visit their Facebook page, or you can email Michele at fogah2004@yahoo.com.

• Georgia Public Library Service, https://georgialibraries.org, see bit.ly/2020GAI for more details.

• Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council, Look for the grant application on the Georgia Archives website under “Announcements.” To apply, submit a completed application form to Christopher.davidson@usg.edu by March 1, 2024. Available to an employee or volunteer at a local government repository, preference given to an applicant from an under-served community; tuition, travel and accommodations.

• NEW for 2024!! The Josephine Hart Brandon Scholarship is given annually to a Georgia resident who is accepted to the Georgia Archives Institute. The scholarship is generously provided by Morgan County Landmarks society and named for Josephine Hart Brandon, historian, supporter of the Georgia Archives, and the sister of Carroll Hart, founder of the Georgia Archives Institute. After acceptance to the Georgia Archives Institute, Georgia residents are eligible to apply for this needs-based scholarship that prioritizes participants from under resourced or smaller institutions, and will cover full tuition for the Institute. To be considered, please apply for the GAI by the March 15th deadline and pay the $75 deposit. Upon acceptance to the GAI, Georgia residents will be asked to complete a short secondary application process if they wish to be considered for the scholarship. The GAI will refund the successful applicant’s deposit. 

Press for new scholarship, April 2024!

Morgan County Citizen

Special to The Citizen - Apr 22, 2024 Updated Apr 23, 2024

The Morgan County Landmarks Society recently announced the first recipient of its Josephine Hart Brandon Scholarship to the Georgia Archives Institute is Mark Orwa Onginjo, a student at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur.

The scholarship is funded through the Society’s Heritage Education Fund. In 2004 a gift from Carroll Hart’s estate established the fund in honor of her sister, Josephine Hart Brandon, for educational purposes of the organization, and last summer the Landmarks Board voted unanimously to establish the Archives Institute scholarship.The scholarship provides tuition to a Georgia resident to attend the two-week summer program created in 1967 by Ms. Hart.

As director of the Georgia Department of Archives and History from 1964-1982, Ms. Hart saw a need to train her own entry-level archivists and students. The Georgia Archives Institute has since expanded to make training available for aspiring archivists from around the world.Josephine Hart Brandon, a longtime Morgan County Middle School history teacher, shared her sister’s passion for preserving accurate historical records. She wrote her doctoral dissertation, “Pages of Glory: Georgia’s Documentary Heritage,” to explain the various misfortunes that befell many of Georgia’s official records before the day of professional archivists.“Dr. Brandon and her middle school students were instrumental in helping to save Richter Cottage, which today is maintained as a house museum by the Landmarks Society and owned by the City of Madison,” Terry Tatum, Landmarks president, explained. “It’s only fitting that we honor both Carroll Hart and her sister with this scholarship. We are pleased to begin this ongoing relationship with the Georgia Archives Institute in memory of two of the founders of the Landmarks Society,” Tatum added.

Originally from Kenya, Onginjo is an ordained pastor with the Presbyterian Church of East Africa. Currently, he is working toward a Master of Divinity degree. While in school, Onginjo has worked since 2021 as an assistant archivist in the C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections & Archives of Columbia. Since beginning his work there, Onginjo says he has developed “a strong desire to remain an archivist. My career goal in archival is to further my studies after my Master of Divinity program to excel more in the industry.”In his scholarship application, Onginjo wrote, “We learn from our predecessors, so if we couldn’t archive what we have done today and the materials handed over to us in history, then what will the future generation have to refer to? That is why archival is not an option but a necessity for improving future life.”

The Morgan County Landmarks Society is dedicated to promoting through education the preservation of historic landmarks, landscapes, and culture of Morgan County.

Note on scholarships

Individuals must apply separately to the Georgia Archives Institute and to the scholarship organizations. Do not send scholarship applications to the Georgia Archives Institute, except for the Josephine Hart Brandon scholarship. The board will inform successful candidates when to complete the secondary application.

Reception

The Georgia Archives Institute board members invite friends of GAI and archivists from the Atlanta area to attend the annual reception and support the students through social networking.