The Local History Department in the Columb us-Lowndes Public Library System in Columbus\, Mississippi works with the Mississippi School for Math and Science (MSMS) high school juniors on two outreach programs: Tales from the Crypt and The Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration. With both\, students utilize primary sources found in the ar chives and learn how to research and analyze information. Each project cul minates in a public program in two different city cemeteries that engages the public with our communities past. The Eighth of May Emancipation Celeb ration was even featured on the HBO documentary Our Towns in 2021. This pr esentation will share the ways in which the archives collaborates with bot h of these programs. Presented by Mona Vance-Ali.
\nMona Vance-Ali i s the Archivist for the Local History Department at the Columbus-Lowndes P ublic Library System. She received her MA in History/Public History from t he University of North Carolina Wilmington and is currently working on her MLIS with the University of Southern Mississippi.
\nIn 2011\, she p ublished a book titled Images of America: Columbus and is the Immediate Pa st-President of the Society of Mississippi Archivists. She also teaches a class on public history at Mississippi University for Women.
\nShe h as received numerous technology\, programming\, and collection grants incl uding most recently a NHPRC Grant through the National Archives and Record s Administration to collaborate on the creation of The Lantern Project whe re thousands of pre-Civil War records pertaining to enslaved persons will be digitized and searchable online.
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