Digital Library of Georgia

Select "Records and Full text" to search both the metadata and available full text.

Select "Records" to search only metadata for items. (All items have metadata.)

Select "Full text" to search only the scanned or transcribed text for items. (Not all items have full text)

Use quotation marks to search as a phrase

Use "+" before a term to make it required (Otherwise results matching only some of your terms may be included)

Use "-" before a word or phrase to exclude

Use "OR", "AND", and "NOT" (must be capitalized) to create complex boolean logic

You can use parentheses in your complex expressions

Truncation and wildcards are not supported

This Search	Will Find
“Floyd Jillson”	Records that have the name Floyd Jillson
girl scouts +low	Records with the word low that also contain girl and/or scouts
brunswick -stew	Records with the word Brunswick but not the word stew
“African American” AND art	Records containing the phrase “African American” and art
bread AND (butter OR fruit)	Records containing the words bread and butter or bread and fruit

DLG API

This site provides an API for researchers and digital humanists. Responses come in either XML or JSON flavor.

URL Scheme	Description	Expected Response	Notes	Example
`https://dlg.usg.edu/records.json` `https://dlg.usg.edu/records.xml`	Returns all search records in a paginated list with facet data.	Item(s), Facet information	Combine with query parameters to limit results. Results are paginated.	JSON Results for 'columns' in Clarke County
`https://dlg.usg.edu/record/{identifier}.json` `https://dlg.usg.edu/record/{identifier}.xml`	Returns all available metadata for record corresponding to `identifier`.	Item		JSON for `dlg_larc_jlc0378`
`https://dlg.usg.edu/records.json?search_field=record_id&q={identifier}+OR+{another_identifier}`	Returns JSON for a specific set of records using record IDs separated by OR	Item(s), Facet information	Identifiers can be extracted from individual record page URLs (in this example the ID is `gsu_lane_13327`)	JSON for `dlg_vsbg_jaj111` and `dlg_vsbg_jaj053`
`https://dlg.usg.edu/collections.json` `https://dlg.usg.edu/collections.xml`	Returns all collection search records in a paginated list with facet data.	Collection(s), Facet information	Combine with query parameters to limit results. Results are paginated.	JSON Results for Collections matching 'architecture'
`https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/{identifier}.json` `https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/{identifier}.xml`	Returns all items contained in the Collection corresponding to `identifier`.	Item(s), facet information		JSON for records in `dlg_gacoch`