[78-L] ARSC Webinar Today (1/20/22) on Cultures of Collecting

[ARSC Continuing Education Series]

Hello everyone,

Just a final reminder that today*, January 20*, the Association for
Recorded Sound Collections  <http://www.arsc-audio.org/index.php>invites
you to join us for the latest installment in our Continuing Professional
Education series of webinars, a panel discussion on varying cultures and
practices of collecting sound recordings. As always, this program is free
and open to the public.

To register, click here: https://bit.ly/3pU9bVV

*ARSC Continuing Education Webinar Series & ARSC Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion Committee Present:*


*What Makes a Collector? A Conversation on Collecting Sound Recordings*

Featuring: Dorothy Berry, John Levin, and Vincent Pelote

Moderated by Allison McClanahan and John Bondurant



*January 20, 2022, 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST*



The Association of Recorded Sound Collections is an organization of people
who share a common interest in collecting and preserving sound recordings,
whether at sound libraries and archives or cultural heritage institutions,
as a private interest, or both. This panel will focus on exploring the idea
of collecting and the “collector” identity: practices, motivations, and
community.

*Speakers:*


*Dorothy Berry* is an archivist whose work focuses on the description and
discoverability of African American cultural heritage materials. With a
diverse academic background in new music performance, historical
ethnomusicology, and archival studies, Berry has been able to lend a unique
curatorial eye at enhancing discoverability of underrepresented histories
at institutional repositories. She has worked at the Archives of African
American Music and Culture, the Black Film Center/Archive, at University of
Minnesota on Umbra Search African American History, and currently at
Houghton Library, Harvard University where she serves as the inaugural
Digital Collections Program Manager.

*John Levin* has broadly collected records and phonographs from the
acoustic era for over 45 years. More recently, he has focused on cylinder
recordings on brown wax, with a current collection comprising more than
3,000 pre-1903 records. John is working closely with the Performing Arts
Collection at UCSB to ensure that his researched collection – and important
others like it – are slated for long-term preservation and public access.

*Vincent Pelote* is Senior Archivist and Digital Preservation Strategist at
the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He has compiled
discographies on Billie Holiday, Lionel Hampton, and on the Commodore
Records label. Mr. Pelote is one of the contributors to the Oxford
Companion to Jazz. He has written a number of album program notes on Lee
Konitz, Johnny Smith, Mary Lou Williams, Benny Carter, Curtis Fuller, and
others. He has written book and sound recording reviews for the ARSC Journal
and Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. He was
one of the hosts of the radio program, “Jazz From the Archives,” which
aired on WBGO-FM, National Public Radio (1979-2014).

We hope we'll see you there today!

-- 
Yuri Shimoda
Dan Hockstein