Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Eudora Welty House)

Mississippi Department of Archives and History will hire a full-time Collections Specialist to work with existing collections staff to catalog, photograph, and digitize object records for 1,079 artifacts on exhibit at the Eudora Welty House and 10,260 artifacts stored at the Charlotte Capers Archives and History Building. Staff will write detailed descriptions, take measurements, perform condition reports, conduct curatorial research, and take high-resolution digital photographs of all artifacts to create new and updated digital object records with all relevant data, image files, and metadata. Collections staff will use the enhanced database to manage the collection more effectively in preparation for the opening of two new museums-- the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. This project will pave the way for the development and public launch of the digital collections portal, which will support a new level of public engagement with the collection.