MSU Grant Library Joins Online Presidential Library Program

STARKVILLE, Miss.(Submitted)–The Ulysses S. Grant Library at Mississippi State University’s Mitchell Memorial Library now is part of the Connecting Presidential Collections project.

A free online site for centralized document searching across presidential collections, CPC is housed at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. It works to enhance presidential sites and library materials by providing a consolidated source of information for researchers and learners. Documents may be searched by topic, presidency, partner library, collection, creator or date. For more, see www.presidentialcollections.org.

The MSU collection contains more than 600 items, including 32 volumes of “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant,” along with the Bultema-Williams Collection of photographs and other images, political cartoons, letters and documents relating to the former Union Army general who became the 18th U.S. president.

The CPC partnership resulted from contacts made by John Marszalek and Meg Henderson. Marszalek, a historian, author and Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus, is executive director and managing editor of the Mississippi State-based U.S. Grant Association. Henderson is an associate at the university’s Mitchell Memorial Library which houses the Grant Library.

Stephen Cunetto and Randall McMillen also assisted providing metadata for digital documents. Cunetto is MSU Libraries’ systems administrator; McMillen, digital projects coordinator.

Funding for the project was provided by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. Other partners include the Massachusetts Historical Society; Founders Online; UV Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program; Dallas, Texas-based Sixth-Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza; Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University; and Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum in Staunton, Virginia.

MSU has been home to the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library since 2009. For complete information, visit www.usgrantlibrary.org.

MSU, the Magnolia State’s flagship research university, is online at www.msstate.edu, facebook.com/msstate, instagram.com/msstate and twitter.com/msstate.