Part 3: Other Jazz Collections at UNT The UNT Music Library houses significant jazz collections that did not originate with Jazz Studies programs. Such collections include the Willis Conover Collection, the Maynard Ferguson and Stan Kenton chart libraries, the Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection and many more. It is crucial that we create an ecosystem in which those materials can be used alongside the departmental materials seamlessly to contextualize both. Gathering data for other jazz collections held by the UNT Libraries will set the stage for digitizing, describing and/or harvesting content from our collections to integrate them into the Jazz Syndicate. • Develop infrastructure to facilitate the discovery of materials from disparate platforms: $50,000. • Integrate existing descriptive data from these collections’ finding aids for materials where copyright prevents the public display of digitized works in the portal (such as the Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson chart libraries, among others): $20,000. Part 4: Expansion and Collaboration This phase enables us to build on relationships with other institutions who have such materials online and combine information about those collections with information about UNT’s collections, thus creating a central informational hub to facilitate discovery of collections from multiple institutions. Steps in this phase: • Digitize and describe non-Jazz Studies content in the UNT Music Library. • Develop a workflow to harvest data on extant jazz collections at other cultural heritage institutions. • Create partnerships with other interested institutions to identify materials that are already described or digitized online. • Integrate this descriptive information into the Jazz Syndicate so that users may have access to significant jazz collections from a centralized virtual repository. • Promote the Jazz Syndicate on social media, in professional organizations and on internal and external listservs to invite exploration.
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