Starkville Public Library Local History and Genealogy

05/22/2025

Join us on June 7th for the Genealogy Fair

History and genealogy fair set for June 7 at Starkville Public Library Contact: Pattye Archer STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University Libraries will host the 2025 E.O. and Betty Templeton History and Genealogy Fair June 7, offering family historians and history enthusiasts a chance to explo...

11/26/2024

04/29/2024

12/08/2023

The vintage Christmas cards in these two photos are from The Weir Collection, series 1: Family Letters, box 12, folder 239, Christmas Cards sent to people in the Weir family, mostly the R. K. Wier family

11/29/2023

A statement from SirsiDynix regarding the library’s mobile app:

SirsiDynix is the owner of your library’s mobile application. However, another vendor controls the access of the app. Unfortunately, they have unexpectedly disabled the app, rendering it inoperable.

As an immediate solution, you can search the catalog via the library’s website, http://starkville.lib.ms.us This allows many of the core search features of the mobile app to be available on your mobile devices. You can use the URL below to access the catalog directly:

https://mlp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/okt/


We have also been aggressively developing an entirely new, next-generation mobile app for your library. While it is not yet available for general use, we anticipate it will be ready in the next few months. This app will deliver the functionality you enjoyed in the original app, along with many new features.

We regret any inconvenience this has caused you. Please know that your library had absolutely no way of anticipating this situation, and we hope you’ll be understanding as we work through this difficult, interim period.

Bill Davison

Chief Executive Officer

SirsiDynix

11/08/2023

Veterans Day books are from the Stark Annex Mississippi Collection and Mississippi Writers Project book collection.

Native American Heritage books displayed are from the Stark Annex Genealogy Collection

Thanksgiving display books on thankfulness are from the Starkville Public Library circulating collection .

10/05/2023

It's National Family History Month: come dig thru our materials and who knows, maybe you'll find a rich relative!

10/05/2023

The Starkville Public Library local history and genealogy department, the Stark Annex, has histories and directories of several Oktibbeha County Methodist and Baptist churches as well as of other denominations like the ones shown in the pictures.
Come and see what else you can find in our Oktibbeha County genealogy section. The Stark Annex is closed from 12 to 1 every
day, but otherwise it is open M-Thurs from 9 to 5 and 9 to 4 on Fridays.

08/29/2023

Stark Annex's most recent new collection : Oktibbeha County Post Cards Collection
Folder 1: pictures of Oktoc Community Club & Gentry's Store; Starkville Playhouse on Main & First United Methodist Church; and MSU Cafeteria
Folder 2: Prints of original paintings by Nel Slaughter of "Old Starkville "

07/19/2023

These three yearbooks are part of the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum Collection
Nocturne Music Club 1941-1942
Neo Cycle Club 1939
County Council and Home Demonstration Club 1950

07/10/2023

Show Notes: It seems like everyone is talking about ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) driven search tools. Many of you have written in and asked me if you should be using these for…

05/09/2023

These pictures are of the Oktoc Garden Club Community Quilt of 1978, that won a blue ribbon. Each pattern was hand-drawn by the members of the club and transferred to cloth. There are pictures of things commonly seen in the Oktoc community .

The other quilt, which also appears to have been made with hand-drawn patterns, is of unknown origin and contains quilted images of things commonly found in Mississippi