UGA Special Collections Libraries Launch Community Docent Program
Special Collections Libraries seek community volunteers for new docent program, to begin training in February 2013.
The University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries is now accepting applications for participants in its docent program. The Docent Corps is a skilled group of volunteers who provide tours of the library galleries to visitors, ranging from fifth graders to adults. Docents are trained to highlight permanent and rotating exhibitions and to help increase awareness of the many resources offered by the three special collections libraries: the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Walter J. Brown Media Archive and Peabody Awards Collections and the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. “Participation in the docent program requires a substantial commitment of time and …
