Mission
Mission
The mission of the PSU Archive is to collect, preserve, and make accessible for research use the historical materials housed in the archive as evidence of the university’s origin, growth, and development.
The Philander Smith University Archive is located on the 2nd floor of the D. W. Reynolds Library building. Although the Archive was established in 1996, it was formally organized in 2003 at the opening of the D. W. Reynolds Library facility. As the official memory of the institution, its collections span the entire history of the university, from 1877 to the present. The Archive contains a broad range of materials including a manuscript collection, books, periodicals, maps, newspapers, audiovisual materials and photographs.