Collection Information
Collection
Jerome S. Shipman Jazz resources
Location
Music and Performing Arts Library open stacks or Special Collections areas (printed materials), and University Press storage area (78 rpm and possibly some LP recordings).
Provenance
Private collection of donor
When acquired
January 1993
Description
Donation included 20 magazine titles (540 separate issues), of which duplicates of existing holdings may not have been retained; 140 78-rpm recordings; and 14 LP discs. Labels of 78-rpm records include (among others) American Music, Blue Note, Climax, Circle, and Session. Also included were 13 open-reel tapes produced by Arnold Bopp in the series Rare Jazz on Tape. Magazine runs included Record Changer, Jazz Record, The Needle, Jazz, Record Research, and others.
Arrangement
Journals in Music and Performing Arts Library’s open stacks or in Special Collections. All 78-rpm records in University Press storage area arranged by accession number or by manufacturer/serial number. LP discs either fully cataloged (in Special Collections), or in University Press storage area. As of 2019 recordings in Press Building were transferred to the Internet Archive for digitization.
Access/Finding Aids/Bibliography
Collections File folder (“Shipman, Jerome S.”) includes complete lists (see below) of donated items (prepared by donor and by Music Librarian William McClellan), along with correspondence relating to donation and a copy of pages from the publication “Mr. Jelly Lord” by Laurie Wright listing contents of limited edition albums issued by Circle Records.
Please expect limited access to LPs as they are uncataloged in off-site storage.
Index of terms
Jazz; Recordings: 78 rpm; Shipman, Jerome