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This week marks the third anniversary since the re-opening of the Old Capitol Museum after its post-Katrina restoration. These photographs of the 2007-2008 restoration were taken by OCM Director Clay Williams.
View more photos in the Old Capitol Restoration Gallery. Old Capitol Museum hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m., free of charge. Located at Capitol and State Streets in downtown Jackson, parking in rear.
Today marks the third anniversary of the grand opening of the Old Capitol Museum after its post-Katrina restoration. OCM Director Clay Williams documented the 2007-2008 restoration of this National Historic Landmark in hundreds of photographs. We have selected a few to look at here, but you can view more in the Restoration Gallery. Read more about the restoration here.
Old Capitol Museum hours are Tuesday-Saturday from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1-5 p.m., free of charge. Located at Capitol and State Streets in downtown Jackson, parking in rear.
The Milburn J. Crowe Photograph Album is an interesting treasure from the MDAH collection. It documents the people of the Davis Bend and Mound Bayou African American communities. The Davis Bend community was founded by freed slaves who lived there from 1867 to 1886, when several factors forced the closure of the town. Mound Bayou was then formed as a self-governing African American town in 1887 by Isaiah Montgomery and Benjamin Green, who had been members of the Davis Bend colony. Read more about them in the Collection Description for the photograph album.
This interesting map of the Capitol Street area is available to view online as a Zoomify JPEG! Click here to view the map.
Check out the new MDAH online catalog! The catalog was converted to the Koha software system over the Memorial Day weekend. Its appearance has not changed much, but the cost savings and other benefits precipitating the move have just begun. With the old system, not only was the department tied to a particular vendor, whose fees went up by a set percentage annually, but our license limited how many patrons and staff could connect to the catalog simultaneously. Every month hundreds of patrons and staff got a “System busy. Try again later” message, because the license limit had been exceeded. With open-source Koha, there are no licensing fees and no vendor lock-in.
Koha is a full-featured library system used by thousands of libraries world-wide. It is web-based, meaning that it can be accessed from any computer with an internet browser. It also uses full-text searching. Now, for the first time since MDAH has had an online catalog, patrons can use online search engines to search inside the catalog. Even the item note fields can be searched – something that our old system wouldn’t do. This innovative application and the significant related cost savings are possible due to the technical capability of the Archives and Records Services Division information services staff.
The Koha catalog system is still relatively new and is very much a “work in progress.” Check it out and come back again because now patrons can visit as often as they want – no more licensing limits!