Abstract
The University of Mississippi in July 2004 transferred responsibility for approximately 7,000 linear feet of political and legal collections from the Law School to the Department of Archives & Special Collections. At that time, the department faced a severe shortage of available storage space for new collections. University officials recognized and quickly resolved this dilemma by designating a soon-to-be vacant Physical Plant building for off-site library storage including an entire floor (6,900 square feet) for the newly created Modern Political Archives unit (MPA). In the mean time, two full-time staff and several student workers began processing one of the large congressional collections stored in an older structure scheduled for renovation itself that spring.
Recommended Citation
McWhite, Leigh
(2009)
"A Comedy of Errors: Repository Renovation in Reality,"
The Primary Source: Vol. 28:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
DOI: 10.18785/ps.2801.04
Available at:
https://aquila.usm.edu/theprimarysource/vol28/iss1/4
