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Finding aid for the Mississippi Mental Health Collection

MUM00313

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http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM000313/

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Summary Information

Repository
University of Mississippi Libraries
Title
Mississippi Mental Health Collection
ID
MUM00313
Date [inclusive]
1956-1980 and undated
General Physical Description note
1 box (0.5 linear feet)
Location:
General Special Collections
Abstract:
The collection contains notes, publications, and other documents produced by various groups in Mississippi dedicated to mental health services.

Preferred Citation

Mississippi Mental Health Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi

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Scope and Content Note

The collection contains notes, publications, and other documents produced by various groups in Mississippi dedicated to mental health services.

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Arrangement

This collection is arranged chronologically (except for folder 19).

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

University of Mississippi Libraries 1956-1980

Access Restrictions

The Mississippi Mental Health Collection is open for research.

Copyright Restrictions

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Additions

No further additions are expected to this collection.

Acquisition Information

Unknown

Processing Information

Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded by Kathryn Michaelis, January 2012.

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Controlled Access Headings

Format(s)

  • articles
  • journals (periodicals)
  • newsletters

Subject(s)

  • Community health organizations -- United States
  • Mental health services -- United States

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Collection Inventory

Box 1 

Letter to legislator from Mrs. S.C. Meisburg, State Chairman of the Exceptional Child for the Mississippi Congress of Parents and Teachers, circa 1956 

"A Report to the Mississippi State Legislature by the Joint Legislative Investigating Committee," 8 April 1958 

Mississippi Mental Health Bulletin, September 1958 

"Mental Health Facilities and Activities of the Official Agencies of Mississippi," circa 1960 

Program for the fourth annual meeting of the Mississippi Association for Mental Health, 1960 

Marc Challenge, June 1964; December 1964; February 1965; January 1966 

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Newsletter of the Mississippi Association for Retarded Chidren, Inc.

"Mental Health - Mental Retardation Community Pre-planning Meeting," Lafayette County, 21 December 1965 

"Mental Health - Mental Retardation Planning Notes," 24 January 1966 

Scope and Contents note

Two copies

"To: Local Mental Health - Mental Retardation Pre-Planning Committee and Local Participants," Oxford, Miss., 23 February 1966 

The Oxford-Lafayette County Bell Ringer, March 1966; 29 April 1966 

Scope and Contents note

Publication of the Oxford-Lafayette County Association for Mental Health

"Legal Status of the Mentally Retarded and Mentally Ill in Mississippi," by Dr. James W. Mann and Gene Parker, Winter 1969 

"Resolution Adopted by the Board of Trustees of Mental Institutions at Their Annual Meeting," Meridian, Miss., 15 April 1970 

Concept, August 1970 

Scope and Contents note

Newsletter of Region 10 Mental Health Complex

Mississippi Mental Health Mirror, Fall 1970; Winter 1970; Spring/Summer 1974; 1 June 1977 

Scope and Contents note

Quarterly publication of the Mississippi Association for Mental Health

In Touch...In Mississippi, May 1978 Special Edition 

Scope and Contents note

Publication of the Mental Health Association in Mississippi

The Grapevine, 24 June 1980 

Scope and Contents note

Community newspaper of Whitfield, Miss.

"Regional Mental Health and Retardation Center: A Community Approach," Oxford, Miss., undated 

"The Mississippi Plan--Mental Health and Mental Retardation," undated 

Schedule for the Mississippi Association for Mental Health's second annual meeting, 25 January 1958