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Spring 2003 Meeting at the Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University |
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Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 Place: Jones Hall
The Louisiana/Southern Mississippi chapter of SLA held its Spring meeting and program at 10:00 AM on Saturday, April 12th,
at Jones
Hall on the Tulane University campus. Bruce Raeburn,
curator of the Hogan Jazz Archive, gave us an overview and tour of
the Archive. This is one of the premier collections of material relating
to New Orleans jazz, and includes oral histories, commercial sound recordings,
printed music, and photographs, as well as an extensive collection of
books, periodicals, and manuscripts.
Afterward, a brief business meeting was held, which
included electing officers for next year and a presentation of awards,
followed by lunch at a
nearby restaurant, at which new members were the guests of the Chapter.
Meeting
Minutes On Saturday, April 12th LaSoMi members
met for the Spring meeting at the William Hogan Jazz Archive at The Hogan Jazz archive is a department within the
Special Collection Division of the Libraries at Tulane. The archive
specializes in New Orleans Jazz, and is the premier resource for jazz
materials encompassing the unique culture and social history of The Hogan Jazz Archive received its name after the death of the original curator, jazz historian William Ransom Hogan who proposed the creation of the Jazz Archive to the Ford Foundation. Established in 1958, financial support was originally allocated for oral history fieldwork with jazz musicians. The Jazz Archive is rich in primary material with interviews of over four hundred individuals, constituting over 2000 reels of tape. Since the collection development budget for the archive is limited, gifts to the jazz collection make up a large part of the other collections of the archive. Other materials include sound recordings, sheet music, vertical files, books, serials, photographs and other original resources. The collection is non-circulating, with collections accessible onsite only. Only a small percentage of the holdings of the collection are included in the university’s online catalog, so in-house finding aids are used to locate most materials. Dr. Raeburn plans to digitize the oral history collection to make this valuable resource available to researchers worldwide without limitation or cost. The archive also publishes the Jazz Archivist, a semi-annual newsletter including articles written by scholars who have used the collection in their research, and news regarding the archive. Many thanks to Dr. Raeburn for taking the time to share the entertaining and fascinating history and holdings of the archive.Business Meeting After the overview and tour of the Jazz Archives, a
brief business meeting was held. Outgoing
president Bill Stickland gave an overview of the meetings held during
the past year including the Fall meeting at the Pennington Biomedical
Research Center, our chapter’s successful hosting of the midwinter
conference in New Orleans, and the two virtual conferences that we
co-sponsored with LSU: Marketing your Special Library and Safeguarding
our Patron’s Privacy: What Every Library Needs to Know about the USA
Patriot Act. The 2003-2004 Nominated Officers were announced, voted upon, and accepted. They are as following: President- Bill Armstrong Awards were given to Bill Strickland for his
outstanding job as president for the 2002-2003 year, to Angela Murrell
for her work on the chapter’s newsletter, and to Spenser
Bohren
for performing at the midwinter reception in Possible future meeting locations such as the New
Orleans Baptist Seminary Library
were suggested, as well as the possibility of combination meetings with
other library groups such as the The meeting was followed by lunch at Figaros where
new chapter members were treated to a complimentary lunch. [See also, Spring
2003 Meeting Photos] |
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