Kevin Parks

NYPL’s Library for the Performing Arts Acquires Archive of Wayne Shorter, Legendary Jazz Composer and Musician | The New York Public Library Shorter, who died in 2023 at 89 years old, touched virtually every aspect of jazz.

It feels petty to share personal or professional achievements with the world in such crisis, but this is big so here it goes:

I am happy and proud to announce that the New York Public Library has acquired the archive of Wayne Shorter.

www.nypl.org/blog/2025/06...

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

Every day a fresh new horror.

This is way more interesting than the title suggests.

The Nation’s Archivist Should Not Be Political Trump’s clumsy partisan takeover of the National Archives and Records Administration recalls two consequential and troubling episodes from its history.

www.thebulwark.com/p/nations-ar...

Ivan Black collection is now live: archives.nypl.org/mus/188087

These are additions to the Ivan Black papers which are also here.

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Librarians to the rescue.

"The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added"

lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

Newly Available: 'Metronome' Magazine Photographs Collection | The New York Public Library Published from 1885 to 1961, Metronome magazine has as its backdrop some of the biggest changes in music-making. 

Metronome magazine was a music magazine that was published from 1885-1961. The Music and Recorded Sound Division of the NYPL recently acquired the photo archives of Metronome, and there's a lot of interesting jazz photos to see.

www.nypl.org/blog/2025/01...

Rhythm Is My Business: Women Who Shaped Jazz Throughout the history of jazz, women have made significant if overlooked contributions to the genre. While some renowned figures like Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald gained fame as...

www.nypl.org/events/exhib...

A photo exhibition devoted to women in jazz opens tomorrow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Great news--the finding aid for the Gary Miller Gay Men's Chorus Papers is now live:

archives.nypl.org/mus/186429

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