The John Davis Williams Library is the general library for the University community, and houses the main collection of books, periodicals, microforms, manuscripts, government publications, audiovisual materials, and maps. The general library and its branches hold more than 950,000 volumes, more than 2 million microforms, and more than 6,700 current periodical and serial subscriptions. Online library services can be found at the web site http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library.

The library has been a depository for U.S. Government publications since 1883, and is one of only 50 regional depositories in the nation. The Government and Business Information Service Department holds 2,171,025 items, including print, microforms, maps, and electronic media. The GBIS Department also receives Mississippi state documents.

The Department of Archives and Special Collections houses one of the world's finest collections of books, manuscripts, and memorabilia devoted to William Faulkner. The Mississippi Collection, a part of Archives and Special Collections, contains over 26,000 volumes and 300 manuscript collections of Mississippiana. Exhibits of interest to students and the general public are regularly presented by the Department of Archives and Special Collections. The library displays changing exhibits of items from its collections of Mississippiana, incunabula, and other rare books and manuscripts.

There are two branch libraries. The Blues Archive in Farley Hall is an archival collection of blues, gospel, music, and other Afro-American music traditions. Included in the Blues Archive holdings are videotapes, sound recordings, photographs, manuscripts, sheet music, the B.B. King Record Archive of some 7,000 records, and the 9,000-volume Goldstein Folklore Collection. The Music Library, also in Farley Hall, contains books, sets, scores, cassettes, and record albums related to all types of music. The Science Library, located in the Thad Cochran National Center for Natural Products Research building, contains pharmacy, chemistry, and related science reference and research journals and materials.

Two autonomous libraries, the James O. Eastland Law Library and the Public Policy Research Center Library, complement the resources contained in the Williams Library and its branches. The Eastland Law Library's online services can be found at this web site: http://library.law.olemiss.edu.

The Rowland Medical Library is located on the Jackson campus in the Verner S. Holmes Learning Resource Center. This library's online services can be found at this web site: http://library.umsmed.edu/.

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University Museums and Galleries

The University Museums consist of the Mary Buie Museum (1939) and the adjoining Kate Skipwith Teaching Museum (1977). The museum names honor two members of the Skipwith family of Oxford, who built the original museum and provided the site and partial funding for the addition. The museums' collections represent the fields of archaeology, art, anthropology, decorative arts, history, science, and technology. Particularly outstanding are the David M. Robinson Collection, the finest collection of Greek and Roman sculpture, pottery, coins, bronzes, and minor arts in the South; the Millington-Barnard Collection of 19th-century scientific apparatus, the finest precision instruments available in the 1850s when they were bought for teaching purposes by the first chancellor and still the most extensive and best-preserved assemblage of its kind in the United States; and a growing collection of Southern folk art, centered on the world's only major collection of the dream and vision paintings of Oxford native artist Theora Hamblett. Also noteworthy are the Meyer-Fulton Collection of West African art, the Lewisohn Collection of Caribbean folk art, the fine collection of Roman surgical instruments given by medical alumni of the University, and the rapidly expanding collections of 19th- and 20th-century technology and decorative arts.

Only a small selection from the more than 7,000 objects can be displayed at any one time, but all the collections are available to students and faculty for study and research. The museums regularly bring in significant traveling exhibitions from outside sources and prepare frequent special exhibitions from the permanent collections; many of these exhibitions are coordinated with classes or academic events such as the annual Faulkner symposium. The Museum's classrooms and galleries are used for regularly scheduled classes and special events by many University departments, and a noontime lecture series presents talks on a wide range of topics. The museums are open to the public free of charge, Tuesday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Guided tours are available for groups.

The Walton-Young Home: Named in honor of Stark Young, a famous Mississippi playwright, drama critic, and author who was both a student and a faculty member at the University, this historic home was built in 1880. Purchased by the University in 1974, it was occupied by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture from 1989 to 1992 while Barnard Observatory underwent renovation, and by the Honors Program from 1993 to 1996. The home now is used as a historic house and a museum for the decorative arts.

The University Gallery: Located in Bryant Hall, the gallery is used for art exhibitions, lectures, and other activities of the Department of Art. Loan exhibitions of outstanding professional work in architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, industrial art, and commercial art are brought to the gallery at regular intervals. Exhibitions of successful student work are scheduled periodically. The gallery exhibitions and lectures are open to the public.

Rowan Oak: William Faulkner, world-famous author and Nobel Prize winner, made his home in Oxford at Rowan Oak. This stately antebellum home adjoining the campus is now owned by The University of Mississippi and maintained for memorial and educational purposes. Scholars from all over the world and members of the general public visit the home and grounds in order to acquaint themselves with the environment in which were produced some of the greatest and most highly regarded works of American literature. Constructed in 1844, Rowan Oak was acquired by the University in 1972. A path leads from Rowan Oak to the University Museums through Bailey's Wood

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University Lectures

In 1960, Mrs. Ann Waller Reins Longest established the Christopher Longest Lecture Fund in recognition of Professor Christopher Longest's distinguished service to the University from 1908 to 1951 in the departments of Classics and Modern Languages. The annual Longest Lectures are delivered by scholars in the fields of the modern languages and English literature.

In 1972, the students, colleagues, and friends of James Edwin Savage, professor of English, established the James Edwin Savage Lectures in honor of his contributions to teaching and scholarship in the Renaissance. The James Edwin Savage Lectures are given by outstanding scholars in the fields of Renaissance literature, art, history, music, and philosophy.

In 1973, the School of Pharmacy established the Charles W. Hartman Lectures to recognize the contributions of Charles W. Hartman, former dean of the School of Pharmacy, to the pharmaceutical sciences. During the spring semester, an internationally known scientist is selected to deliver the lecture.

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Technology Services

Institute for Continuing Studies
Charles L. Clark, Dean,
Yerby Center
(662) 915-7282
cclark@olemiss.edu

The Institute for Continuing Studies operates distance education rooms for transmitting and receiving compressed video. Mr. Britt Fitts (bafitts@olemiss.edu) is the network administrator. Distance education rooms also exist in the Business and Pharmacy schools and at the UM Advanced Education Center in Tupelo and the DeSoto Center in Southaven.

Information Technologies
Emmette Hale III, Associate Vice Chancellor for information technologies
302 Powers Hall
(662) 915-7206
it@olemiss.edu
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/it

Information Technologies (IT) offers the campus community a wide array of resources, including supercomputers, mainframes, workstations, personal computers, microcomputer laboratories, and networked labs, along with a comprehensive campus-wide network connected to the Internet. A HelpDesk is available by phone (915-5222) to assist University faculty, staff, and students with computing problems. Various schools and departments on campus provide additional computing facilities. Additional information on student access to computers is given in the Student Life chapter.

An APPROPRIATE USE POLICY (http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/it/webproject/ause.html), which reflects academic honesty, ethical behavior, and consideration in the consumption of shared resources, governs the use of all campus computer facilities.

Teleproductions Resource Center
Kenneth E. Boutwell, Director
201 Bishop
(662) 915-5917
kenbou@olemiss.edu

The Teleproductions Resource Center (TRC) at The University of Mississippi is a television production and uplink facility that offers a full complement of television and distance education services. Capabilities include studio and field production, live videoconferences, a wide variety of editing and post production services, mobile satellite uplinks, and packaged pretaped products. TRC provides production and/or uplink services for academic programs, student recruiting, athletics, public relations, and local, state and federal governments.

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University Publishing Center

Printing Services
Mr. Anthony Seaman, Director
Sam Hall
(662) 915-7066
aseaman@olemiss.edu

Houses the Quick Copy Center and provides full-service four-color offset printing, scanning, copying, typesetting, and bindery services for the University and for the personal needs of members of the University community.

Campus Copy Center
Mr. Anthony Seaman, Director
The Ole Miss Union
(662) 915-6723

Offers walk-up copy services, fax services, and bindery services for the students and all members of the University community.

University Publications
Ms. C. Sabrina Brown, Director
203 Gerard Hall
(662) 915-7355
cbrown@olemiss.edu

Provides editorial and graphic design services for printed materials and World Wide Web applications.

Imaging Services
Robert Jordan, Coordinator of Media Graphics and Photography;
Mr. William C. Martin, Coordinator
221 Gerard Hall
(662) 915-7260

Provides photographic and digital imaging services to clients within the Oxford/University community, including studio and location photography, presentation materials, large-format printing, color copies, 35mm slide processing/duplication, computer imaging and scanning, and b/w print processing.

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