Keeping Up Our End of the Correspondence: Preserving Women’s Letters in the Digital Era,” is a panel and workshop discussing digitizing the letters and lives of Mississippi women at Mississippi University (MUW) for Women’s Fant Memorial Library on March 4, 2022, from 2:00 pm. – 4:00 pm. The panel will discuss the importance of letter-writing as a medium for documenting and researching women’s lives, featuring three scholars who have studied, written, and researched the letters of Mississippi women: Dr. Suzanne Marrs, Dr. Bridget Pieschel, and Ms. Angela Stewart. Following the panel will be a brief workshop on the process of digitizing personal collections, where we’ll demonstrate the process of digitization for and exhibit the Smith Papers Collection online. Both the panel and the workshop will be available to attend in-person or stream online.For more information, contact contact deepsouthdh@gmail.com.
