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Welcome to the McCain Library & Archives, home to USM Libraries' Special Collections Department. The McCain Library offers patrons an exciting variety of historical resources ranging from fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts to current Mississippiana, primary source materials from the Civil War to Civil Rights, and one of the leading children's literature collections in the United States, the de Grummond Collection. Archival collections include papers from such significant Mississippians as Theodore G. Bilbo, William M. Colmer, and Paul B. Johnson. Use the search box below to search finding aids and the Mississippiana vertical file.

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*NOTE: McCain Library & Archives will close for air duct cleaning May 12 - May 21. Special Collections materials will be inaccessible during the closure. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

 

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Exhibit News


May's Item of the Month features the 1966-1967 Miss Southern, the USM Handbook for Women.

In the McCain Library's Cleanth Brooks Reading Room (305) we have A Place by the Sea: Tourism on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on view thru June 13, 2008.

Visit the new exhibit space on the 2nd floor of Cook Library and explore Highlights from the Collection, the latest exhibition from the de Grummond Collection on view thru November 1, 2008.

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