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Maureen Russell, head of cataloging and an archivist at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, is being celebrated for the publication of “Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings.” Ben Alkaly |
May 11, 2021
The award was created in 1994 to recognize excellence in librarianship for a 12- to 18-month period in one or more of the following areas: creativity, innovation, intellectual or moral courage, leadership and scholarship. Russell will receive $500 in professional development funds.
Russell is being celebrated for her recent collaboration with Adam Matthew Digital, an academic publisher based in the United Kingdom, on the publication of “Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings.” The website makes research materials including 15,000 audio field recordings and interviews, film footage and more than 8,000 images of field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from around the world available to anyone with an internet connection. Visitors t
“If there is one silver lining to the strange and stressful past year, it’s been the renewed and this time, hopefully, sustained focus on how Black Americans have shaped this country, and finding areas where their voices have been overlooked or silenced,” said Ashley Peterson, research and instruction librarian. “We hope that this exhibition can contribute to these efforts, as well as show us, the librarians who make purchasing decisions, how our collections might fall short when it comes to representing diverse perspectives.”
The Powell Library Community Collections reflect the hybridized resources that Bruins are currently using to advance their coursework and research, which the UCLA Library actively empowers. Materials are a mix of print, now accessible through the library’s page and pickup service