“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…”, or so Gershwin says. But for librarians, summer is often time for catching up or finishing projects. As MLA member Beth Royall (West Virginia University) recently shared, colleagues Danielle Emerling and Ashley Brooker published an article in the summer issue of the Mid-Atlantic Archivist describing their West Virginia Humanities Council grant-funded project to digitize and re-catalog the Louis Watson Chappell collection, which “contains more than 2,000 songs, ballads, and fiddle tunes, recorded from 1937-1947.”
Read their article “Creating a Digital Collection for the Folk Music of West Virginia“, or view the digital collection.