MSU Libraries celebrates archives month with Herring collection
Mississippi State University Libraries celebrated National Archives Month in October with a program honoring one of the Libraries newest collections.
The Todd A. Herring Collection was officially welcomed on October 9, 2009, and honored with an open house and month-long exhibit, A Historian Collects: Selections from the Todd A. Herring Collection, in MSU Libraries’ Special Collections Department.
Former Starkville, MS, resident and current Lincoln University professor of history Dr. Todd A. Herring, who earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees from MSU, collected his first document in 1977 at the age of 11. After that, Herring was hooked. For the next 30 years he added to his collection a variety of historical materials from stoneware jugs used to hold liquor to thousands of documents and rare books, publications, and artifacts. In 2008, Herring began donating materials to his alma mater, and, to date, MSU Libraries’ Manuscripts Division of Special Collections has received some 18 cubic feet of traveler’s accounts; estate, military, and business records; religious materials; photographs, letters, and pamphlets; rare books; newspaper articles and journals; artifacts; and more.
Herring’s strong interest in the Natchez and lower Mississippi Valley area is reflected in the in-depth focus of his Collection on those areas. Herring’s Collection also features documents and artifacts from other areas of Mississippi, the South, and other regions of the United States and from his extensive travels to 26 countries.
For more information on MSU Libraries and on the Todd A. Herring Collection, please visit http://library.msstate.edu/spcoll or contact Mattie Sink at 662-325-3848.
Photograph by MSU Libraries
Dr. Todd A. Herring visited with MSU Libraries’ Special Collections Department staff and faculty prior to his October 9th presentation. Pictured here (l to r) with portions of the Herring Collection are Dee Dee Baldwin, Donisha Smiley, Dr. Herring, Gerald Chaudron, Mattie Sink, Lynne Mueller, and Jana Hill.
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Lyle Tate
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Mississippi State University Libraries
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Posted on: October 14th, 2009
