> From: "Joan Saverino" <jsaverino@hsp.org>
> Date: November 2, 2009 10:04:17 AM EST
> To: <H-ETHNIC@h-net.msu.edu>, <H-Pennsylvania@h-net.msu.edu>
> Subject: Penn Folklore Archive Update and Announcement of Books for
> Donations
>
> Penn Folklore Archive Update and Announcement of Books for Donations
>
> Dear Friends of Penn Folklore,
>
>      We are writing to update you regarding the future of the holdings
> of the
> Folklore Archive of the Center for Folklore and Ethnography at the
> University
> of Pennsylvania and to announce the availability of books from the
> Center
> Library for a minimal donation.
>
>       Mary Hufford has worked within the University to identify a new
> home on
> campus for the Folklore Archive.  We are pleased to inform you that
> the
> physical manuscripts, images, and recorded sound will be permanently
> housed in
> the Archive at the Penn Museum (formerly the University of
> Pennsylvania
> Museum
> of Anthropology and Archeology). A list of the holdings is posted at:
> http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/grad_program/handbook/archive.html
>
> 	In addition, Penn's Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and
> Image (SCETI) has
> expressed an interest in hosting the Penn Folklore Archive Online.
> Toward that
> end, over the past three years, with support from the Roger D.
> Abrahams
> fund
> for Folklore and Ethnography and the School of Arts and Sciences, we
> have
> migrated most of the manuscripts, along with the Ray L. Birdwhistell
> moving
> image collection and the MacEdward Leach Jamaica recorded sound
> collection to
> digital format.  We plan, with the help of your donations, to migrate
> additional endangered sound recordings for online accessibility. Major
> collections include the Caribbean recorded sound collections of Jacob
> Elder and
> Roger D. Abrahams, the Appalachian and Pennsylvania recorded sound
> collections
> of  MacEdward Leach and Samuel Bayard, and original sound recordings
> made in
> Newfoundland  by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Wilf Wareham, as well as
> smaller
> recorded sound collections not duplicated in other repositories.
> 	The Archive's reference collection contains approximately 1500
> books and
> journals that duplicate holdings in the University library system.
> Therefore
> we have decided to make them available to the national and
> international
> community of folklorists as incentives for donating to the Roger D.
> Abrahams
> Fund.  You will find a list of the books and soon-to-be-listed
> journals
> at
> http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/center/donations.html along with
> instructions
> for making your donation and for selecting the books and journals that
> will
> speedily be migrating your way once the checks have cleared.
> 	Thank you for your support.
>
>
> 				Best wishes,
>
>
> 				Dan Ben-Amos and Mary Hufford
> 				Graduate Program in Folklore and
> Folklife
>
>
>
>
> Mary Hufford
> Folklore Graduate Group
> University of Pennsylvania
> 3619 Locust Walk
> Philadelphia,  Pa. 19104
> Phone: 215-898-5685
> http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/faculty/mhufford.html
>
> The Folklore Graduate Group is migrating Penn's Folklore Archive to
> digital
> format. For information and inventories of holdings please visit the
> project
> webpage at:
> http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/center/archive_migrating.html
>
>
>

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