Music Preservation and Archiving Today

Norie Guthrie is an archivist and special collections librarian at Fondren Library’s Woodson Research Center at Rice University. While her job requires her to do a little bit of everything, she specializes in collecting and processing music materials from the Houston Folk Music Archive, which she began in 2016. She is also one-half of the duo behind Indie Preserves, which aims to provide music preservation tips to the DIY music community.Scott Carlson is the metadata coordinator at Fondren Library, Rice University. He received his MLIS from Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, and an Archives Certificate in Digital Stewardship from Simmons College. With Norie Guthrie, he co-founded Indie Preserves, a website that provides practical preservation advice to independent music labels and bands.

Each essay is well documented and strongly supported with end notes and reference sources. . . . Music Preservation and Archiving Today is oriented towards those working with music, but there are many aspects of the writings contained therein which would be useful to archivists working with other media and subject matter. . . [it] does offer much information that would be useful to archivists who do not work with music, particularly with respect to collecting, outreach, preservation, and technology.

• Part I: Documenting Local Music CommunitiesChapter 1: “Preserving Rock and Roll History on the North Coast” by Andy Leach & Jennie ThomasChapter 2: “Establishing a Regional Music Archives at the University of Illinois” by Rory Grennan, Katherine Nichols, and Scott W. SchwartzChapter 3: “Pushing the Boundaries of Donor Relations to Build the Houston Folk Music Archive” by Norie GuthrieChapter 4: “Building Punk and Heavy Metal Collections at UCLA Library Special Collections” by Megan Hahn Fraser and Melissa HaleyPart II: Leveraging Archival MaterialsChapter 5: “Exploring the Houston Folk Music Archive in the First-Year Classroom” by Andrew A. KleinChapter 6: “Mastering the Sonics of Historic Recording Media” by Jessica ThompsonChapter 7: “Exploring the Attics of the Counterculture” by Jesse JarnowPart III: Outsider Music PreservationChapter 8: “Preserving Underground Hip Hop Tapes in Ethnographic Context” by Anthony Kwame HarrisonChapter 9: “Pursuing Preservation in the DIY Music Community” by Norie Guthrie Scott CarlsonChapter 10: “Preserving Music Through Reissues” by Jeremy BergChapter 11: “Bootleg Compilations as Fan Preservation” by Scott CarlsonAppendix 1: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Scan Day Permission and Donation FormAppendix 2: Indie Preserves Survey