the more you find, the more you find: hidden broadcast collections and the challenge of preservation
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the more you find, the more you find: hidden broadcast collections and the challenge of preservation
- 1. The more you find, the more you find! Hidden broadcast collections and the challenge of preservation Maristella Feustle, Music Special Collections Librarian, University of North Texas FIAT/IFTA, Warsaw 13 October 2016
- 2. We can only preserve what we know to exist Archives as an “iterative and dynamic process” informing not only known, but previously unknown material Discoveries in known collections give insights into other places to look The Willis Conover Collection at UNT as a case study
- 3. Collection diasporas When materials are accumulated in the course of doing something else When the subject at hand is different from the reason that materials were aggregated Non- or quasi-institutional collections Conover’s status as an independent contractor
- 5. The Willis Conover Collection at UNT 1997 gift of the Willis Conover Jazz Preservation Foundation Nearly 300 boxes - our largest music special collection from an individual Very little initial organization: an autobiography in the form of a puzzle! 20,000 commercial recordings added to circulating collection About 2100 reel-to-reel sound recordings 8 acetate film reels; 41 VHS; 7 other video formats (U-matic, others)
- 6. Findings within the collection Five-hour interview with Louis Armstrong, 1956: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc790430/ Jazz concert from Willis Conover’s first visit to Poland, 1959: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc824282/ Willis Conover for American Airlines, with a jazz soundtrack, 1960s: https://edit.digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849899/ Willis Conover at the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree, early 1980s: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849910/ Polish-language feature on Willis Conover, 1990s: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849907/
- 7. Unusual situations, unusual opportunities Grammy Foundation grant Contact with: Voice of America Library of Congress U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Louis Armstrong House Museum
- 8. Treasure map
Editor's Notes
- Explain DACS as the North American expression of ISAD-G. The tip of a shattered iceberg. Use of technology to re-unite pieces
- Treasure map of what’s known to exist. Paper and otherwise. What’s found, what’s not, what’s buried. Have to know to ask for something through the indication that it might exist. Asking the right questions. Unified filmography of Willis Conover. What’s found in one collection sheds light on what’s in another. No collection is an island.