Guest lecture given to IS40370: Management for Information Professionals, UCD iSchool, 1 November 2019. Invited to present by module lecturer, Jane Burns, Director of AIT Library. The Sonic Histories of Cork City (SHOCC) Project is an interdisciplinary research project between members of UCC Library's Special Collections and UCC's Department of Music. The SHOCC Project explores relationships between sound, space and history and investigates what locations in Cork City might have sounded like in various moments in the city's past. The SHOCC Project is a spin-off from a postgraduate music module and the SHOCC Project has its own spin-off research project, 'Listening to Libraries Sounds for the Library of Tomorrow.' Key take-aways from the module and SHOCC Project are the importance of public engagement, adaptability and curiosity.

1. The Sonic Histories of Cork City (SHOCC) Project
Elaine Harrington
Co-founder of The SHOCC Project
Special Collections Librarian | UCC Library
IS40370: Management for Information Professionals
1 November 2019

2. What is Special Collections?

3. As A Special Collections Librarian, Who Am I?

4. Origin Story
Credit: The Big Bang Theory Opening Credits

5. Schedule
● The Role of Special Collections Today
● MU 6031: Sound Studies & Musicology
● The SHOCC Project
● Impact & Reach
● I Will Go On Adventuring...

6. The Role of Special
Collections Today

7. Who Am I?
Disco, Eric. “What Success Looks Like.” Approach Anxiety.com. 7 Nov 2011. Accessed 2 Feb 2016. http://approachanxiety.com/2011/11/what-success-
looks-like/

9. Moata Tamaira: “Brave New World: Technology,
Programming & Service Delivery.”
Slide Credit: https://twitter.com/Fiona_KerrNZ/status/1045792871192748032 #slanza2018

10. SAMR Model for Technology Integration

11. MU 6031: Sound Studies
& Musicology

13. MU6031: Sound Studies & Musicology
/ Off the Map
Slide Credit: William Beauford’s 1801 Map of Cork.

14. Community of Learners
Shawn Day
(Digital
Humanities)
Brian McGee (Cork City &
County Archives)
Helen Bradley
(GIS)
John Hough (Music)

15. MU 6031: In Action – Step #1
Slide Credit:
Advertisements from
1921 Purcell’s
Almanac

16. MU 6031: In Action – Step #2

17. MU 6031: In Action – Step #3

18. MU6031& Success
Slide Credit: http://approachanxiety.com/2011/11/what-success-looks-like/

19. Credit: The Big Bang Theory Opening Credits
Origin Story
Slide Credit: Guy’s Cork
International Exhibition
1902.

20. The SHOCC Project

21. Community of Learners
Shawn Day
(Digital Arts &
Humanities)
Dr Jillian Rogers, Music
John Hough

22. @SHOCCProjectUCC
What is The SHOCC Project?
Wilkie's Cork City Directory, 1872.

23. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Creating The SHOCC Project
Sonic Histories of Cork City (SHOCC) Project
https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/

24. @SHOCCProjectUCC
SHOCC Project & MU6031:
UCC’s Connected Curriculum
https://www.ucc.ie/en/registrar/theconnecteduniversity/academicstrategy/curriculum

25. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Cork – 1902

26. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Sound Design
● Ambiences or Backgrounds
● Dialog
● Foley - footsteps, movements,
● Music

27. @SHOCCProjectUCCSlide Credit: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/1037066123869483008
As of 8 October 2018: Results: 5,444
As of 24 October 2019. Results: 5,802
Crowdsourcing Sound
https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/mapping-soundcatcher/

28. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Sound Research Interacting With Daily Life

29. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Beyond the Walls:
Let’s Go for a Sound Walk
15 submissions from around Cork City including
● Douglas St / Friar’s Walk / Evergreen St
● South Gate Bridge
● St Peter’s Church
● English Market
● Grand Parade
● Washington Street
● Coal Quay
https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/mapping-
soundcatcher/
Example: Grand Parade -
https://www.jotform.com/uploads/shoccproject/8232604
5737357/4297607080717717011/park.wav

30. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Slide Credit: Aquatint ‘Cork from the Mardyke Walk’ in Carr’s The Stranger in Ireland
(1805).
https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/ mapping-soundcatcher/
A SHOCC Project for All Seasons

31. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Slide Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKBw9OexRY8
The SHOCC Project: Future Activity

32. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Future Activity: UCC VR Lab
https://www.thejournal.ie/cork-skyscraper-3842899-
Feb2018/

33. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Barriers to Future Learning
Slide Credit: https://www.newstalk.com/Page-Not-Found:-the-internets-best-error-pages

34. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Why Is Preservation Important?
Slide Credit: http://digital.wustl.edu/ferguson/
• Internet memory loss creates a cultural vacuum.
• Information contained within may be used for activities not
yet considered.

35. @SHOCCProjectUCC
How to Preserve?
• Wayback Machine
• @mhawksey Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet
• Investigated Archive-IT with UCC Library
• Data Management Plan

36. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Impact & Reach

37. @SHOCCProjectUCC
The Working Archive

38. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Awards
Best Research Project - Education Awards 2019 (one of 6 groups
shortlisted)
● Sonic Histories of Cork City Project – University College Cork
● Douglas Matters – University College Cork
● Home Works – DCU Institute of Education
● LINC Consortium
● Maybe There Is Another Way – University of Limerick
● SepTec – Dublin City University (winner)
Best Research Team in UCC
One of two teams nominated by College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social
Sciences to the University. Each College (4) and Tyndall are invited to
submit up to three nominations per category. Therefore no more than 14
nominations in this category.

39. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Creating A Sound Network
Elaine Harrington | Co-founder of The
SHOCC Project
Guest Lecture – IS40370
1 November 2019

40. @SHOCCProjectUCC
Origin Story
Slide Credit: Guy’s Cork
International Exhibition
1902.
Credit: Revealing a Library Soundscape - Exhibition at
Goldsmith Library
CONUL Training & Development Research
Award.
Project: “Listening to Libraries’ Sounds
Today for the Library of Tomorrow.” This
project investigates how in Irish libraries
‘noise’ and not ‘sound’ is perceived.

41. Listening to the Library of the Future
#ListeningToLibraries #LibraryOfTomorrow @conultd

42. “I will go on adventuring,
changing, opening my mind,
my eyes, refusing to be
stamped and stereotyped.”
Woolf, Virginia. “Sunday October 29th, 1933.” A Writer’s Diary: Being Extracts From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. London: Hogarth, 1975, p. 206.

43. Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or, the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859.
Adapting

44. Develop Curiosity Skills

45. Credit: Bond, Sarah and Kevin Gannon “Public Writing and the Junior Scholar.” Accessed 15 October 2019.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Public-Writingthe-Junior/247342
Public Engagement

46. SAMR Model for Technology Integration

47. Credit: Book Cover to Past or Portal: Enhancing Undergraduate
Learning Through Special Collections and Archives. Eds
Mitchell, Seiden & Taraba. Chicago, ALA, 2012.
Next Generation Spaces

48. Acknowledgements
The Sonic Histories of Cork City (SHOCC) Project
• John Hough, Senior Technical Officer, School of Music & Theatre, UCC.
• Dr Jillian Rogers, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Jacobs School of Music,
Indiana University; (former Lecturer in Musicology, School of Music & Theatre,
UCC).
UCC Library
• Colette McKenna, Director of Library Services - UCC Library, UCC.
• Jane Burns, Director of Athlone Institute of Technology Library, AIT.
• Shawn Day, Lecturer in Digital Humanities, UCC.
• Dr James O’Sullivan, Lecturer in Digital Humanities, UCC.
• Dr Áine R. Mangaoang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of
Musicology, University of Oslo.
All the students who completed MU 6031 and contributed to the SHOCC Project.

49. Contact
Elaine Harrington
Special Collections Librarian
UCC Library
University College Cork
Cork
e.harrington@ucc.ie
Sonic Histories of Cork City (SHOCC) Project
https://shoccproject.wordpress.com/