Archives/Museum & Special Collection at Eva B. Dykes Library: History and Mission of the Archives

The mission of the Archives and Museum fulfills the Eva B. Dykes Library mission to provide Oakwood University, its constituents, and community with quality resources and services related to institutional historical records and the history and legacy of Black Adventism.

1. To provide the institution with a memory and a method to verify, refute, or modify the recollection of its members and the outside community about the insitution's past;
2. To serve as a teaching and learning center;
3. To serve administrative needs;
4. To reach out to communities whose goals are increasing local history awareness; and
5. To provide the most effective means of organizing and managing the institution's historical information recources, for prompt customer service.