New Archives & Special Collections Website Goes Live!

The re-design of the Archives & Special Collections website is now complete and is available here. 

Since 1975, the primary purpose of the Archives & Special Collections has been to acquire, conserve, and make accessible rare books, manuscripts, maps, visual and audio materials, and ephemera related to the University of Mississippi, the state of Mississippi, and the Blues.

The website contains online inventories, new subject guides, online and past exhibits, helpful research tips & tools and much more.

Now Available: Oxford English Dictionary Online!

 

The University of Mississippi now has access to the online version of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (http://www.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/library/oed.pl).  

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

New Blues Exhibit!

Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Blues Archive by viewing Still Got the Blues: A Silver Anniversary Exhibition in Archives and Special Collections' Faulkner Room, located on the third floor of the J. D. Williams Library.

From original record contracts for Elmore James and Sonny Boy Williamson, rare sound recordings by Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton, artwork by Lightnin' Hopkins and James "Son" Thomas and records from B.B. King's personal record collection, this exhibit is sure to have something that appeals to everyone.

The exhibit is currently available 8-5, Monday - Friday. For more information contact Greg Johnson at (662) 915-7753 or gj1@olemiss.edu.

Free Evidence-Based Influenza Information from EBSCO

As public concern about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season continues to grow, the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) respond by offering the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free.

This free flu information resource is located at www.ebscohost.com/flu and will provide continually updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed™ and Nursing Reference Center™, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center™.

Please visit this site often and feel free to share, post, and email this link to your colleagues, patrons, family and friends. 

 

Available Now : The Chronicle of Higher Education

The University of Mississippi Campus now has access to the online version of The Chronicle of Higher Education. This provides campuswide access to all of The Chronicle's web site for everyone at Ole Miss -- all faculty members (full and part time), administrators, staff, and students.

Users will have access to:

• The Chronicle's Web site which is updated throughout the day, 5 times a week with the latest news in academe.
• All the text from the current issue, which prints and mails on Friday, and is posted online the following Monday morning here.
• A searchable archive of back issues from September 1998, available here.
• All the commentary and essays from the weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review, available here.
• All the data from the annual Almanac and other Chronicle reports which are in easy-to-search databases here.
• All supplemental information to print articles and others "extras" such as slide shows and video here.
• Special single-topic reports on admissions, diversity, information technology, and more

For a quick summary of what UM users now have access to, please visit the Chronicle of Higher Education site map here.

New "Hail to the Chief!" Online Exhibit

Created to coincide with the 26 September 2008 presidential debate at the University of Mississippi, the original "Hail to the Chief!" exhibition appeared in the Faulkner Room of the Archives & Special Collections from August 2008 through August 2009. With the exception of eighteen framed presidential portraits, this online digital version duplicates that physical installation.

One section documents presidential elections in Mississippi between 1848 and 1968. Slavery and race are prominent electoral factors throughout this time span, and they are often leading causes in the shifting fortunes of political parties within the state.

Drawing from holdings throughout Special Collections, the exhibit also features a wide array of general presidential items from George Washington through Bill Clinton. These letters, photographs, scrapbooks, audio recordings, and ephemera cover topics as diverse as integration and inauguration to poker debts and the blues.

The exhibition is available to view online here

Current Journal and Database Trials

• Early Republic Online
• Easy Bib

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