Many students at Ole Miss have
never been in Mezzanine B in the library. Mezzanine B is a dark storage area
located at the very top of the J.D. Williams Library that is used to preserve old
special collection documents.
“The oldest documents we have are medieval but
we only have about ten of them. The majority of the collection is post 1848 and
pre 1988,” said Reference Librarian and Assistant Professor, Alex Watson.
The weather in Mississippi makes it
more difficult to preserve the important documents, so there is a de-humidifier
there to help decrease the level of humidity.
“It is not an ideal cold storage, especially
when the power fails because it is not climate controlled and not concealed,”
said Watson.
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