2020 Poster Sessions
We Must Save the Music!
Institutional Repositories Preserving the Output of Music Departments

Intended Audience

Academic Libraries, Archives

Poster Summary and Objectives

Music Departments/Conservatories and Archives do not often collaborate on preservation. They are simply disconnected entities at most universities. In this poster presentation, we discuss a collaboration between Lynn University's Archivist and Music Librarian that focuses a spotlight on Lynn's commissioned musical works and students' compositions using SPIRAL, Lynn's institutional repository. The goal of this project is to not only preserve, display and make the compositions accessible to the public, but also to give a second creative life to those works. We discuss copyright implications in displaying the musical works and describe how we obtain permissions from their creators. Additionally, we argue that institutional repositories are a natural home for musical works and scores, and we advocate for outreach to Music departments and other creative departments on university campuses for re-homing these works in the repository.

Presenters

Tsukasa Cherkaoui- Lynn University
Lea Iadarola- Lynn University

• The Lynn University Library’s archivist and music librarian have been working on managing and developing SPIRAL (https://spiral.lynn.edu/), Lynn’s institutional repository, since we adopted it over a year ago. In this robust repository, we provide access to a collection of faculty and staff publications and presentations, student theses, portfolios, and dissertations, as well as video or audio files, archival materials, photographs, yearbooks, student newspapers, and more. The topic of this poster presentation is part of the ongoing repository project.