Digital Preservation and Access Unit

The Digital Projects Department plans and executes the digitization of selected materials held in the Libraries.

The current digitization project focuses on items from the Congressional & Political Research Center, the Manuscripts Division collections, and the Charles H. Templeton Sr. Collection. Selected materials from each of these collections are being digitized in an effort to preserve, provide access and increase awareness of these unique collections. Earmarked funds from the U.S. Congress are being used during FY 2006-2008 to hire staff and to purchase equipment, software, and supplies for this digitization project.

The Congressional & Political Research Center is focusing on the digitization of documents and correspondence from the John C. Stennis Collection, U.S. Senator from 1947-1989; the G. V. “Sonny” Montgomery Collection, U. S. House of Representatives from 1967-1997; and the David Bowen Collection, U. S. House of Representatives 1973-1982. 

The Manuscripts Division of Special Collections chose to digitize photographs, diaries, letters, ledgers, and more from CHARM (The Consortium for the History of Agriculture and Rural Mississippi). 

Finally, the funding has allowed the Library to continue and expand the digitization of sheet music from the Charles H. Templeton, Sr. collection.