Digital Collections

Mississippi Digital Library

Mississippi Digital Library: The Mississippi Digital Library is the collaborative digital library for the state of Mississippi. Our mission is to provide an online space to search and explore Mississippi’s rich abundance of cultural and historical resources held by institutions and repositories across the state. Emphasizing collection building and discoverability, our goal is to help our partners build sustainable, high-quality digital collections and deliver those materials to the researchers. We are committed to providing free open access to these digital collections.

Made up of over 50 institutions, our partners include archives, historical societies, museums, public libraries, academic libraries and more.

The Carnegie Public Library (CPL) has a large collection of historic photographs and documents that have been donated and accessioned over the course of the history of the library.

To make this resource more accessible, the historic photographs and documents of Clarksdale and Coahoma County a digitization effort was initiated in 2012. Digitization has been made possible, in part, by an LSTA grant.

Advantage Preservation Archives

Advantage Preservation provides archival microfilming services to preserve a community’s past and digitize historical collections and documents of all kinds to make them practical to access in the present. We collaborate with communities across the United States to create free digital access to historical newspaper collections, photos, genealogy books, magazines, yearbooks, vital records, and other documents of significance. Through Partnership with the Carnegie Public Library of Coahoma County, Advantage offers and invaluable to in making accessible our newspapers and other local publications to all who may be interested in these valuable, irreplaceable materials that showcase the History of our county.