The Mississippi Digital Humanities Hub at The University of Southern Mississippi provides resources and training so that local institutions - four-year and two-year colleges and universities, high schools, museums, and libraries - can pursue community-based projects that highlight and preserve the rich history of Mississippi. The Hub offers workshops to train college and high school instructors and students in the types of tools needed to document their communities, dispenses grants to help spur community initiatives, and provides experts and software to help interpret the materials being digitized.

Hub Grants

The Digitization and Digital Humanities Grants aim to strengthen the public’s access to and understanding of Mississippi's history and culture. Projects supported by these grants should result in two outcomes:

1. Digitization of materials (documents or objects) that represent aspects of Mississippi’s cultural and historical heritage and have not been previously digitized. These items must be institutionally held materials (at libraries, museums, or institutional archives) and must be used with the institution's permission. Priority funding will be given to proposals that digitize materials that meaningfully tell a story important to Mississippi’s history and culture.

2. Publication of materials through a sustainable website and sharing of those resources with the Mississippi Digital Library. We strongly encourage projects that use digital humanities tools—mapping, visualization, storytelling, and/or textual analysis—to enhance the digitized documents.

Cultural Heritage Digitization Award

The Cultural Heritage Digitization Award (CHDA) is offered annually by the Mississippi Digital Library (MDL) in conjunction with partners from across the state. The chosen collection will be digitized and published electronically as part of the recipient’s collection in the Mississippi Digital Library.

The award is available to any Mississippi-based cultural heritage society or organization that possesses items significant to Mississippi history and scholarship but lacks the personnel, physical, or technical resources to create a digital collection. Preference is given to materials that are considered at-risk (i.e., deteriorating physical conditions, threats of nature, etc.) or those that showcase Mississippi from a new or different perspective.