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Mississippi Archives and Collections Receive Funding for Preservation and Digitization

Several institutions in Mississippi have recently received grants to preserve and digitize a variety of archives and collections. Here are some of the notable grants awarded:

Tougaloo College in Tougaloo received $1,900,000 to complete the processing and description of its Civil Rights Collections, and to digitize and make available online portions of the collections.
Hinds Community College in Hinds received $353,000 to digitize multiple archival collections pertaining to the history of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute.
The Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History, Meridian, received $76,240 to establish a website and records management program for the records of Lauderdale County and the City of Meridian.
The University of Mississippi, University, received $11,210 to arrange and describe the university's Lumber Archives relating to the lumber industry in Mississippi between 1829 and 1944.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson received $35,282 to support workshops, an award program, History Day and Archives Month, Civil Rights programming, the creation of a portal for accessing online collections, and the development of a directory of cultural institutions.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson received $1,090,000 to support the inventory, description, indexing, digitization, and increased public access to the collections of the Rowland Medical Library.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson received $2,796,000 to support Mississippi Medical History Online: The UMMC Digital Collections Initiative.
The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg received $18,000 for a fellowship in archival administration.
The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg received $56,787 to appraise, arrange, and describe the records of the Association of American Railroads and the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio Railroad.
The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg received $113,198 to support a two-year project to preserve and increase access to materials related to the timber industry in southern Mississippi.
Mississippi Regional Archives #1, Columbus, received $35,000 to inventory and draft retention and disposition schedules for county records.
The Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History in Meridian received $15,168 to microfilm ca. 107 linear feet of selected records of Lauderdale County, the City of Meridian, the Lauderdale County School System, and the Meridian Separate School System.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, received $29,251 to arrange and describe its Channel 3 newsfilm collection, including development of a computer-based descriptive system.
Jackson State University in Jackson received $77,995 for a statewide survey of the organizational and business records and personal papers of 20th-century African-American Mississippians.
The Mississippi Department of Archives & History in Jackson received $10,000 to support the state historical records advisory board.
The Mississippi Department of Archives & History in Jackson received $94,139 to conduct a MARC-based (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) archival description program. The records will also be loaded into the Mississippi Union Catalog and into a national database.
Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, received $23,616 to arrange and describe the university's archival records.
The Mississippi Department of Archives & History in Jackson received $99,390 to support the work of the Mississippi Historical Records Advisory Board, including a statewide county records program.
Mississippi State University in Starkville received $340,424 to support the Lantern Project, a collaborative effort focusing on the records that illuminate the experience of persons sold "down river" as part of the slave trade conducted on the Mississippi River.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson received $28,809 to support basic funding, including an awards program, an summer internship program for graduate students, workshops, programs relating to the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Archives Month activities, a county records inventory and technical assistance project, and participation in a national archival organization.
The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg received $135,828 to process 12 collections related to children's literature, women and people of color, and politics, and create 1,200 digital images and make them available online.
The University of Mississippi in Oxford received $4,500,000 to support a project entitled "Digitization of Mississippi's Archives."
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, received $30,932 to survey and report on historical records in executive agencies, boards, and commissions, and to recommend legislation and other actions to improve archival and records programs for the state government.
The Mississippi Department of Archives & History in Jackson received $63,551 to support basic activities, emergency preparedness, and technical assistance to county records managers in the state's 14 oldest counties to improve the preservation of, and access to, some of the state's most valuable records from pre-1920.
Jackson State University, Jackson, received $5,000 for a consultant to help in planning the survey and collection of organizational and business records and personal papers of African-American Mississippians.
City of Hattiesburg, Hattiesburg, received $7,452 to preserve, arrange, describe, and make available the city's non-current records.
The Mississippi Department of Archives & History in Jackson received $171,887 to establish an electronic records program in conjunction with the planned design of and move to a new state outreach building.
Mississippi State Historical Records Advisory Board, Jackson, received $25,000 to analyze the current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions, and outline actions that can be taken.
The Mississippi State Historical Records Advisory Board in Jackson received $6,371 in partial support of the board's administrative expenses for one year.
The Mississippi State Historical Records Advisory Board in Jackson received $25,000 to enable the state archivist to undertake disaster assessment and response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg received $1,999,047 to support the Digital Humanities Hub, a three-year project to educate and incubate digitization projects throughout the state of Mississippi.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson received $35,282 to support basic funding for the state historical records advisory board, including a summer internship program for graduate students, workshops, Archives Month activities, a county records inventory and technical assistance project, and programming to assist the state's community colleges and historically black colleges and universities.
The Mississippi Department of Archives & History in Jackson received $16,000 to support basic activities of the state historical records advisory board.

While there are no recent National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) funded projects in Mississippi related to digitization, preservation, and description of archives and collections explicitly mentioned in the search results, it is always best to consult the official NHPRC grant announcements or Mississippi state archives websites directly for the most accurate and up-to-date information.

The University of Southern Mississippi, through several grants, is focusing on education and self-development by offering a fellowship in archival administration, supporting a project to preserve and increase access to materials related to the timber industry in southern Mississippi, and funding a three-year project, the Digital Humanities Hub, to educate and incubate digitization projects throughout the state. Meanwhile, the political landscape of Mississippi is being enriched as portions of several archives and collections, such as Civil Rights Collections and newsfilm collections, are being digitized for online education and general news consumption.