sound recordings receives Mellon grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $789,000 to Yale and Stanford universities and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to facilitate the cataloging of historical 78 rpm sound recordings at all three institutions.
During the 40 months of the grant period, the three partner institutions will create original catalogue records for over 29,000 commercial 78s that were issued by record companies as single discs. These recordings represent a treasure trove of musical and spoken-word performances, but until now information about their contents has only been available to scholars through an array of published and private discographies, card catalogs, stand-alone computer databases and the brief catalog records of the Rigler Deutsch Index.
Once the project is completed, records for the 78s will be fully searchable in the online catalogues of all three institutions, as well as through Online Computer Library Center's WorldCat and Research Libraries Information Network's Eureka databases.
University Librarian Alice Prochaska says, "The Mellon Foundation's generosity facilitates an exciting collaborative project, and I am simply delighted that Yale University Library is playing a key role in it. It will transform access to these important sound recordings for scholars and other listeners in the United States and in every part of the world."
The cataloguing grant follows a six-month planning grant, also funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in which Yale, Stanford and the New York Public Library organized and prepared their historical audio collections for cataloguing.
With combined holdings of nearly a million commercial recordings in all formats, plus privately produced archival audio materials, Yale's Historical Sound Recordings Collection, Stanford's Archive of Recorded Sound, and the New York Library for the Performing Arts' Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives constitute three of the largest collections of audio recordings in the United States.
For additional information on the Yale Library, including its hours of service and digitized versions of some of its collections, visit www.library.yale.edu.
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