The Archives Research Room, located on the first floor of the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives building, provides access to these archival resources, as well as to state government agency publications, county histories, microfilmed federal records, and other materials relevant to the Commonwealth's past and present. The Maryland State Archives publication series, Archives of Maryland Online, will be providing access to over one million historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government. Online access to this information at the Archives' web site enables users to research quickly and easily such topics as Maryland's constitutions and constitutional conventions' proceedings, session laws, proceedings of the General Assembly, governors' papers, and military records. Through this project, the Archives is making accessible in electronic form and preserving for future generations records that are scattered among a number of repositories and that often exist only on rapidly disintegrating paper. The Information Technology Fund of the State of Maryland provided initial funding for the online Archives of Maryland.
Additional funding comes from annual appropriations and private contributions.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, established in 1902, is the second oldest department of archives and history in the United States. The primary functions of the branch include collecting, preserving, and making available for public use historical and evidential materials relating to North Carolina. Its holdings consist of official records of state, county, and local governmental units, and copies of federal and foreign government materials. In addition to these official records are private collections, maps, pamphlets, sound recordings, photographs, motion picture film, and a small reference library. In all, the Archives houses over 50,000 linear feet of permanently valuable materials containing millions of individual items.