Building the Mississippi Digital Library
Abstract
The Mississippi Digital Library was founded in 2003 with the help of an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to develop the framework to support a lasting cooperative digital library program for the state. This pilot phase is a joint venture between Delta State University, Jackson State University, Tougaloo College, The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, The University of Mississippi, and The University of Southern Mississippi; it focuses on Civil Rights era materials of national intellectual and educational value. The Mississippi Digital Library is providing leadership in a cutting-edge field by creating an alternative model for digital collaboration and by continuing to develop a mechanism for resolving intellectual property and privacy rights issues for 20th century collections.
© 2006 by K. G. Saur
