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April 26, 2004 Volume 28, Issue 33 |
DataBasics
By Deborah Lee
MSU Libraries
The Templeton Sheet Music Collection was donated by Charles Templeton and consists of more than 20,000 pieces of sheet music from late 19th and early 20th century America. While selected pieces of the sheet music collection have been available via the collection Web page ( http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/main.html ), the introduction of the MSU Digital Image Archive will allow users greater access to these classic ragtime tunes.
The archive, known as Hyperion, is an innovative tool that facilitates organizing, storing, maintaining, and accessing non-book holdings in a digital format. Hyperion will provide access to a number of digital collections, including the Templeton set. Users will be able to search using metadata descriptions or they may browse through the digital collections.
To access the Templeton collection through Hyperion, users should visit the Hyperion Web site at http://library.msstate.edu/hyperion/ . Users may search using any of the metadata elements or they may browse the collection by selecting the Hyperion Hierarchy link at the top of the page. Selecting the Charles H. Templeton Collection, and then the Sheet Music Collection link will take the user to the categorized listing of available documents. The collection is divided into 10 categories, first developed by Charles Templeton: blues, specialty, minstrel music, show tunes, Irving Berlin, war songs, popular, movie tunes, fox trots, and rags. Currently, there are more than 1,100 titles digitized, with plans to add most of the remaining collection. Hyperion provides pdf access to the color documents.
For questions concerning the content of the collection, contact Dr. Michael Ballard at 325-7680 or mballard@library.msstate.edu . For technical questions concerning the sheet music collection or about Hyperion, contact Stephen Cunetto at 325-8542 or scunetto@library.msstate.edu .