UNT Jazz Syndicate
Vision The UNT Jazz Syndicate is a repository of jazz history and collections that also serves as a hub for connecting these collections to other significant jazz collections, including currently undiscoverable ones. It provides visibility and accessibility for materials related to jazz history with the express goal of preserving and linking the documentary evidence of jazz’s development. Purpose The Jazz Syndicate will provide centralized access to jazz collections of all media types (audio, video, still image, text, digital projects) and facilitate linkage tracking between related and complementary jazz collections at UNT and beyond. Impact By increasing visibility to our collections, we spread awareness of the UNT College of Music in the Jazz world, thereby increasing and solidifying our reputation among peer institutions, ranking organizations and foundations. Our increased reputation becomes an automatic recruitment tool, as witnessing jazz legends donate their libraries to our institution is no small compliment. By making these lab recordings and libraries accessible, we are able to recruit the best of the best musicians, obtain doctoral students and scholars due to our vast well of resources and retain current students because of the ease of research. Digitizing these collections preserves them in perpetuity, allowing these impacts to be felt for generations.
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