Partnerships

Department Projects

Kansas City: Paris of the Plains

   The Jazz Age in Kansas City, 1920-40

Content rich and subject comprehensive

• 38-page multi-media Website (400+ images, 20 sound files, + text) 1,032 files = 69.7 MBytes
• photographs, sheet music & scores, graphic art, correspondence, poetry, books, advertisements, programs, newspaper clippings, quotations, posters, banners, broadsides, travel logs, audio sound files
• Examines the musical, social, cultural, literary, architectural, technological and political heritage of jazz-age Kansas City and highlights the personalities of that era as well

Partners: MNL Special Collections, Kansas City Museum, KCPL Special Collections, and six private collections

Derived from 33-panel physical exhibit displayed Oct.-May, 2000-01

Both are resources worth preserving (in digital form) over time

Link to KC: Paris of the Plains http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/ParisofthePlains/WebExhibit/index.html

UMKC's Book of Gregorian Chant

Images of chants from the original mss. alongside transcriptions in modern notation, with audio files of chants sung from the original

6 Web pages (25 images, 4 sound files, + text); 37 files=2.1 MB

Gregorian chant; Plainchant; Liturgical music; Latin mass; Medieval manuscripts - 10th - 16th centuries, A.D.

Mss. catalog record linked to this Web resource

More than simply access - educational value and appreciation of the original enhanced by digitizing and by bringing related additional resources together at a single site

Partners: MNL Special Collections, Dr. Janet Kraybill, RLDS

Basis for digital project imaging the entire mss. - 100 vellum folios (200 pages) 19"w by 27"h and Dr. Kraybill's transcriptions

Resource worth preserving (in digital form) over time

The Brush Creek Follies

Photos, text, audio & video (120 MB A/V)

Popular culture; Kansas City - social life and customs; Popular entertainment - history; Radio and television - history

Developed as a by-product of daily business and routine requests for access

Partners: MNL Special Collections, UMKC Multimedia Technology Services, former Follies artists "Kit and Kay"

Corrective to the underuse of audio

Digitizes our strengths and our uniqueness

Resource worth preserving (in digital form) over time

Presidential Studies Collection

Digital audio resources from the Marr Sound Archives supplementing related collection of print, microfilm, and mss. materials

Educational value and appreciation of materials is enhanced by digitizing and by bringing related additional resources together at a single site (more than simply easy access)

Corrective to the underuse of audio in teaching

Utilizes our strengths & our uniqueness & what can be done today

By-product of daily business and routine requests for access

Partners: Truman Museum & Library, MNL Special Collections

Truman Student Research Files

Digitized KMBC audio resources from the Marr supplementing related mss. collection

Educational value and appreciation of materials is enhanced by bringing related additional resources together at a single site (more than simply easy access)

By-product of preservation & inventorying and routine requests for access

Corrective to the underuse of audio in teaching

Utilizes our strengths and our uniqueness and what can be done today

Partners: Truman Museum & Library, MNL Special Collections

Link to Student Research Files http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/Truman/StudentResearchFile/Bfiles.htm

SRF# 26: Running From Behind: Truman's Strategy for the 1948 Presidential Campaign
Truman's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention

SRF#40: President Truman's Response to Women's Issues
Truman's Radio Address on National DemocraticWomen's Day, 1949

Content rich: the People, Sights & Sounds of the Golden Age of Kansas City Jazz (159 MBytes of audio material alone)

The educational value and appreciation of materials is enhanced by bringing related additional resources together at a single site (more than simply easy access)

Digitize strengths and our uniqueness & what can be done today

Partners: Miller Nichols Library, Kansas City Star, KC150, kansascity.com, Kansas City Museum

Resource worth preserving (in digital form) over time

Digitized resources can be catalysts for increasing human interaction - a way to engage people and elicit responses. Rather than emphasizing ease of acquisition, if done properly they instead promote the span of attention users willingly provide.

The response to Club Kaycee has been enormous.

The Kansas City Journal Post
     Diamond Jubilee Section of December 31, 1929

Original information preserved by digitizing

Creation of a facsimile use copy made possible by digitizing

Inaccessible primary resource now easily accessible to simultaneous users without threat to the original information

Digitizing permits enhanced access through enlarged images

Original & use copy catalog records linked to this Web resource

Digital resource includes several indexes & interpretive information for enhanced access and added value

A digital resource worth preserving (in digital form) over time

Amy Cheney Beach Collection

America's foremost composer of the Romantic period

Great interest today in many of her compositions, especially in performing her one-act opera Cabildo (96+ pages)

Digitizing has enabled the creation of multiple performance copies of her works without threat to the originals

Digital corpus of her works being developed as a by-product of routine requests for access

Public service has been enhanced and improved

Dave Dexter Jr. Collection

History of American Jazz (and more)

Project scanned 2,175 photographs (300 dpi raw tifs)

Converted & resized to large & TN-sized jpgs (477 MBytes)

Public service has been expedited and improved
   Do you have any images of Duke Ellington? (Paul Dry Books request - Hentoff memoirs)

Richard W. Bolling Collection

US Congressional history and reform during eight Presidential administrations

Project scanned 2,150+ photographs (300 dpi raw tifs)

Converted & resized to large & TN-sized jpgs (216 MBytes)

Audio resources in a variety of formats digitized as a by-product of routine access requests (Dr. Julian Zelizer's request for Select Committee meetings of 3/74)

Public service has been expedited and improved