Date post: | 12-Jan-2016 |
Category: |
Documents |
Upload: | lesley-rice |
View: | 221 times |
Download: | 0 times |
Berea College (Kentucky)
Davis and Elkins College (West Virginia)
Ferrum College (Virginia)
Assessment of Noncommercial Appalachian
Music Holdings
Conducted ByKip Lornell
Department of MusicGeorge Washington University
Fall 2006
“American music – especially grassroots and popular music – is clearly the growth area in music
departments across the United States.”
Kip Lornell
• 25,000 Plus Unique Performances
• Documenting 20th Century Daily Music Life in Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia
• Portraying the Diversity of Appalachian Music
• Ethnicity• Instrumentation• Singing Style• Religious Expression
Collections Description
Common Characteristics
• Large Collections of High Quality Material
• Well Cared For, Physically
• Aging, Obsolescent Formats
– Predominantly Reel-to-Reel Audio Tape
• Permission Rights /Deeds of Gift
Common Characteristics
•Underutilized
• Locally• Commercial Documentary Recordings• Broader Scholarly Community
•Limited Institutional Funding
• Long Term Preservation• Electronic Access
Materials Of Particular Importance Contained In The Collections
• Berea – Hymnody
• Davis and Elkins – Helvitica (Swiss-German) Songs and Tunes
• Ferrum – African American Songs and Tunes
Analog Preservation Copying Portions of Collections• Ferrum• Davis and Elkins• Berea
• Online Audio – Digital Library of Appalachia (DLA)• Berea• Ferrum
• Access Through Institutional Web Pages
• Berea (Item Level Searching)• Davis and Elkins (General Information)• Ferrum (Item Level Searching)
Preservation and Access Measures – Past and Present
Additional Access and Preservation Measures
Berea College
• High Resolution Digital Preservation Copies
• Dedicated Server Storage
• Fellowships to Promote Scholarly Use
• Collection Level OPAC / OCLC Records
• Digital Assets Management System (July 2007)
Berea, Davis & Elkins and Ferrum’s many worthy online music samples and contextual
exhibits “merely tickle the surface of what could and should be done with this music.”
Kipp Lornell
• Long Term Preservation (Digitization)
• Personnel• Equipment• Storage
Improving Scholarly AccessGetting Beyond “Merely Tickling the Surface”
Improving Scholarly Access
• Web Based Models
– American Memory Project– Stratman-Thomas Collection– British Library Sound Archive– Digital Library of Appalachia (DLA)
Lornell’s Super Model
Something Like JSTOR / ARTstor
“MSTOR”
– ACA Collections– Indiana University– Arhoolie (Commercial)– Delmark ( Commercial)
RESPONSE
• Preservation
Definition (Digitization Standards)
Transfer (Hardware) File Configuration (Interoperability) Server Storage Personnel Qualification
Strategy
Developing Local Capacity Outsourcing
RESPONSEElectronic Access
“MSTOR” Alternatives / Parallels
Building On What We Already Have
“Appalachian Memory Project” (A Beefed Up Digital Library of
Appalachia)
Enhancement of Those Electronic Resources That “Merely Tickle
the Surface.”