1/25/2011 9:11:49 MIT Music
Peter Munstedt (pmunsted) and Ann Marie Willer (willer) Lewis Music Library
"The Lewis Music Library holds 7 items related to songs about MIT. The Music Library currently receives about one inquiry per week regarding the Tech Songs songbooks, and it seems likely that interest in these and other MIT music items will increase during the 150th celebration. It would be a service to patrons and timely to make these materials available online. Because music is performed from a paper score and not from a computer screen, we would also make preservation photocopies to ensure patron access to a circulating paper copy of each item.
Because additional copies exist in the Institute Archives and Special Collections, Peter Munstedt is willing to allow the Lewis Music Library copies off-site for scanning. We propose to use Acme Bookbindery as our vendor in order to have the scanning, digital file production, preservation photocopying, and binding completed and invoiced together. The digital files would be made available to Silvia Mejia-Suarez, the MIT 150 Archivist, who has already expressed interest in having these materials online, and would be uploaded to DSpace or Dome as soon as the appropriate workflow is identified. The project would be funded from the Preservation Fund 3207000, which is used for reformatting and other preservation projects.
(1-3) Tech Songs
Publisher Oliver Ditson released Tech Songs in 1903, 1907, and 1929. These books of college songs are mostly written by MIT students but include some works by other authors. The first songbook is available on the Archives’ website: http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/techsongs/TechSongs-1903.pdf. The 2nd and 3rd editions have not been digitized. The Lewis Music Library has one paper copy of the 1st edition, and it is kept in their non-circulating Special Collections. There are copies of the 2nd and 3rd editions in the circulating collection.
We propose to make the 2nd edition (out of copyright) available online and to make a preservation photocopy of the 1st edition for the circulating collection.
1903 - http://library.mit.edu/item/000515599
1907 - http://library.mit.edu/item/000349044
(4) Tech Song lyrics
A small pamphlet containing only lyrics to Tech Songs has no publication information or date. This will also be digitized and a preservation photocopy will be made for the circulating collection. http://library.mit.edu/item/000795755
(5) Sons of M.I.T.
This piano-vocal score is copyright 1944 by the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Lewis Music Library has only three photocopies. (The original is lost.) We would like to find an original to digitize for online access, but we could digitize from the copies we have. We seek the DOT’s guidance for requesting copyright permission from the Alumni Association. http://library.mit.edu/item/000734260
(6) Sons of MIT march
This march arrangement of Sons of MIT is copyright 1944 by the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We seek the DOT’s guidance for requesting copyright permission from the Association to digitize this piano-vocal score and make a preservation photocopy for the circulating collection. http://library.mit.edu/item/000734267
(7) Mother Tech: an ode to Technology
This ode, dedicated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was especially written for the pageant celebrating the completion of the new buildings, June 13, 1916. The Music Library has one paper copy of this piano-vocal score, and it is kept in their non-circulating Special Collections. We propose to make the score (out of copyright) available online and to make a preservation photocopy for the circulating collection. http://library.mit.edu/item/001116543
Book Barton records 1923; MIT Alumni Association 1903-1944
The bindings of all seven items are solid. The 1st edition of Tech Songs is dirty and stained on the covers. We have an uncataloged (and thus very clean) copy of the 2nd edition.
The only copy of Sons of M.I.T. is a photocopy. It would be preferable to find an original.
Language for copyright permission request from Alumni Association:
“We are writing to request your permission to make digital copies of, store, and share, the following material, which is copyrighted to the MIT Alumni Association:
[describe and list material]
We would like to share the material in association with the MIT 150 celebration (on the MIT 150 timeline website [URL]) and through MIT’s web-based archive for research and educational materials (dome.mit.edu), as well as in other contexts that may arise over time. We are therefore requesting a perpetual and worldwide right to reproduce the material and migrate it to other digital media formats as needed for access, storage, and preservation, and to publicly display, perform or exhibit, or distribute digital files made from the material for scholarly, educational, and research purposes.”