Gift to the Delta, Past and Present: US Government Documents and Resources at the Delta State University Library

Abstract

The historic Mississippi Delta is home of the blues, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Delta State University (DSU). In the tightly knit agricultural town of Cleveland, DSU, whose unofficial mascot is the Fighting Okra, is a public university in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. It is here that DSU’s Roberts-LaForge Library houses a mid-sized collection of US government documents and provides access to online US government resources. The library is a selective depository library that receives about 40 percent of the United States government documents that are issued in tangible formats by the US Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). Also, DSU’s library is the only US government documents depository library in the Delta region of Mississippi.