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Snatching Gems from the Ash Heap: Saving the KTRU Tapes NEWS FROM FONDREN Volume 25, No. 2 • Spring 2016 Snatching Gems From the Ash Heap: Saving the KTRU Tapes As Rice University’s student-run radio with contemporary musical shifts, from The digitization project is expected to station, KTRU, returns to the FM art rock in the 1970s to alternative, run until fall 2016, at which point phase broadcast spectrum, Fondren’s archivists experimental and underground rock in two will begin: digitizing the audio reels in the Woodson Research Center (WRC) the 1980s. The 1980s also brought the stored at KTRU. are racing to save historical broadcasts on addition of specialty shows, a tradition Audio already digitized includes crumbling analog media. that continues to this day with shows such on-campus talks and conversations with The project, which began in as the Mutant Hardcore Flower Hour Gene Roddenberry, Jacques Cousteau, September 2015, seeks to digitize the and four -hour jazz block every Sunday and Jerry Rubin; live on-air concerts 25 boxes of reel-to -reel audio tape that afternoon. Additionally, KTRU broadcast performed at Rice (including one with comprise the WRC’s archival collection Rice athletic events, interviews, public blues legends Sonny Terry and Brownie UA011, Rice University KTRU Radio lectures of Rice affiliates, concerts from McGhee); and backstage interviews with records. The collection contains news the Shepherd School of Music, and news notable ’70s performers, such as Mike broadcasts, political speeches, rock and events relating to the campus and Love of the Beach Boys, Billy Joel, Janis interviews and other unique content beyond. Ian, Peter Gabriel and Nick Lowe. There broadcast on the student radio station are plans to make some of the audio between 1968 and 1987. “The tapes give available in the Rice Digital Scholarship an audio history of the university, but also Archives. For now, content is being shared reveal tidbits of Houston’s history that through YouTube clips and the WRC blog, might have been forgotten,” said Norie such as this interview with Joan Jett and Guthrie, archivist and special collections Sandy West of The Runaways: http://bit. librarian and the project’s instigator. ly/1Mf0H4b. In terms of preservation, the KTRU collection is in a precarious situation. Scott Carlson Though highly regarded for its potential Metadata Coordinator audio quality, magnetic audiotape has a short lifespan and suffers from natural deterioration and decay as well as from CHECK IT OUT! constant use. Additionally, some audiotape (especially from the 1970s and 1980s) is at risk from a condition called “sticky shed syndrome,” in which the chemicals Pg. 2 Concert Celebrates bonding the tape’s magnetic coating to Music of Difference the plastic carrier break down, causing the tape to tear and “shed,” effectively destroying it. Pg. 8 Fondren Library Renovates First-Floor “These tapes were donated in the Reading Room late 1980s, and have not been played in After many years of broadcasting, years,” said Guthrie. “While we weren’t KTRU’s tower, FM frequency and sure of the kinds of information we might license were sold by Rice in 2011 to the Pg. 15 The Man Behind the Music: find, we knew that we had to act quickly University of Houston system, so the Francis Poulenc to preserve them.” station stopped broadcasting, although it KTRU has had a complex history, continued to stream online and through broadcasting from different spots under Houston’s KPFT digital radio channel. different call letters over increasingly KTRU returned to FM broadcasting in powerful frequencies. The station first October 2015 at 96.1 with call letters started broadcasting in February 1967 as KBLT-LP, as KTRU was already in use KHCR, a two -watt station transmitted by another station. Round -the-clock by students from the Hanzsen College streaming of current KTRU broadcasts Fondren Library basement. Over time, its content evolved can be accessed at http://ktru.org/listen. OUTREACH Concert Celebrates Music of Difference Since its inception in 2008, the Fondren Library Accessibility Sydney, Australia, where she completed her fellowship, the Committee has partnered with Rice Disability Support Services program also has been presented at venues around the United to offer yearly training to library and campus personnel about States, including at universities such as Harvard, Wake Forest, accessibility issues. On Nov. 13, 2015, Fondren had the unique and Northern Colorado and at festivals such as the VSA opportunity of welcoming back one of its former student International Disability Arts Festival in Washington, D.C. In workers to present an accessibility program. Catherine Branch her engaging lecture at Rice, Lewis discussed her personal Lewis ’08, who was a student worker in circulation while and global exploration of disability and ways to fuel social completing her degree at the Shepherd School of Music in flute change and inclusive communities. Before the lecture, she also performance, holds both a master’s and a doctorate degree met with Rice students who have just been awarded Watson in music from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester Fellowships and with the Center for Civic Leadership staff. and now is assistant director of the University of Rochester’s More information about Lewis’s inspiring talk is Center for Community Leadership. She also teaches a course available from a Nov. 23, 2015, Rice News article, “A Voice about disability, mentorship for the Arts, Disability and and inclusive higher Inclusion,” at http://news. education and coordinates rice.edu/2015/11/23/a- peer mentor support for voice-for-the-arts-disability- University of Rochester and-inclusion-speaks-at-rice/. students with intellectual and More information about developmental disabilities. Fondren’s Accessibility Upon graduation from Committee is available at Rice, she was awarded a http://libguides.rice.edu/ Thomas J. Watson Fellowship accessibility. Information to research the role of art about Music of Difference in social activism around can be found at http://www. the world. She used the musicofdifference.com/. fellowship to create a concert series, Music of Difference, which encourages positive Linda Spiro conversations about disability Government and diversity. Premiering in Information Librarian 2 www.library.rice.edu COLLABORATION ‘Celebrating 50 Years of Black Undergraduate Life at Rice’ During the 1965–1966 academic year, the first black impressions of Rice and the pressures they each felt to be undergraduate students were admitted to Rice University, successful. marking one of the most significant milestones in the Arceneaux and his family returned to Rice for the event. university’s history. In 2016, the Association of Rice During his visit to campus he recognized a picture of his University Black Alumni (ARUBA) commemorates the young family in a brochure on display in the exhibit case. historic anniversary with special events throughout the year. The brochure featured information on the “life of the black The Woodson Research Center (WRC) partnered with student on the Rice campus” and one of the photographs was ARUBA to create an exhibit chronicling black history at of Arceneaux, his wife and their young daughter. He had not Rice. The exhibit, on display in the Rice Memorial Center seen the photograph or brochure in many years. Describing through May 2016, features Rice photographs, newspapers, his time at Rice, Arceneaux said, “The greatest experiences T-shirts and memorabilia, through the years. were not those where your blackness stood out, but it was Included in the display is those where you were just enjoying the a Houston Chronicle Sunday college experience.” Magazine feature on Jacqueline Current and future WRC projects McCauley ’70, one of the first will continue to investigate the history black undergraduate students of integration at Rice. As part of a admitted to Rice. Also featured program of cultural heritage practica, is a newsclipping from the Rice WRC has partnered with Rice’s Thresher remarking on the Humanities Research Center to create 1970 commencement when student projects working with primary Theodore Henderson and Linda source materials in the archives. This Faye Williams ’70 became the semester, an undergraduate student first black undergraduates to is using archival material to create an graduate from Rice. online exhibit which investigates Rice’s Photographs of outstanding admission of black undergraduates Rice athletes Rodrigo Barnes and the decision to let women live on ’73 and Ricky Pierce ’83 are campus. included. In his time, Barnes was one of only four African- Rebecca Russell American athletes at Rice and Archivist/Special Collections Librarian one of 12 black undergraduates. He was the first African-American to be named to an All-Southwest Conference Defensive Team. Pierce was an outstanding basketball player, finishing his career as the all-time leader in school history with 1,847 points. He was the Owls first NBA first round pick when the Detroit Pistons selected him in 1982. WRC also provided images for a forum titled “Reflections of the Past, Promises for the Future” held Feb. 18, 2016, in McNair Hall. The ARUBA-sponsored forum featured Rice Centennial Historian Melissa Kean ’96 who provided a historical overview of Rice’s decision to desegregate. Allen Matusow, the William Gaines Twyman Professor Emeritus of History, spoke about Charles Freeman ’69, the first black undergraduate male, and the broader changes that occurred at Rice, Houston and the United States in the 1960s. In a panel discussion, Rice alumni Jan West ’73, Charles Szalkowski ’70, Regina Tippins ’74 and Ronald Arceneaux ’74 spoke about their memories of Rice during the 1960s and 1970s. On her decision to come to Rice, West said, “My father felt that Rice was a gift to Texas and his daughter deserved that gift.” Panel members discussed their NEWS from FONDREN • Spring 2016 3 COLLABORATION Library Contributes User Experience Assessment for Learning Management System Rice has been looking at systems that might replace Owlspace as the university’s learning management system (LMS).
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