Ephemeral Archives

The Summer 2007 issue of Performance! is out today. It features an article by SIBMAS president, Claire Hudson, as well as a piece by Elizabeth Schaaf on the Peabody Institute Archives’ online exhibit, Sounds and Stories. You can also find out more about next month’s Performing Arts Roundtable meeting at the SAA Annual conference in Chicago.

In a recent posting on its blog, the James Weldon Johnson Collection at the Beinecke Library reports on a new digital initiative and shares some arresting color portraits by Carl Van Vechten. Among the dancers and singers included are Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Ella Fitzgerald, and Leontyne Price.

SAA reports this morning:

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Welcome to Ephemeral Archives!  We hope to make this a spot where archivists working with performing arts collections as well as archivists, practitioners, or other individuals with an interest in collecting, documenting, preserving, or providing access to performance materials can come to meet.  We are looking for contributors to join!