°ä³ÜÂáé Milwaukee Music Collection
Administrative History/Scope and Content
Administrative History
Named after and dedicated to the memory of Jean °ä³ÜÂáé, a library cataloger (1979-1992) at ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ who died in November 1992, the collection combines Jean's love of music with her career of providing people with educational and recreational materials through libraries.
The Jean °ä³ÜÂáé Milwaukee Music Collection is a unique collection of music in all formats recorded by artists in the Milwaukee area, gathered through donations and purchased to serve the local community. Materials include compact discs, cassettes, phonodiscs, videos and related items. Music of all types is collected, including classical, jazz, folk, rock, etc., recorded by artists who have spent most of their careers living and performing in the Milwaukee area.
Scope and Content
The vast majority of the °ä³ÜÂáé Collection is still unprocessed as an archival collection, but most of its published recordings have been cataloged individually in .
Here is information about current access to the collection.
The contents of the collection will gradually be processed and made available in the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives in the coming years, arranged into four (4) series with component subseries.
At present, the only processed portion of the °ä³ÜÂáé Collection in the archives are the Peter Roller oral history interviews, an individual collection within Series 3.
Series 1: Audiovisual recordings
Series 2: Press coverage and publications
Series 3: Individual collections
Series 4: Advertisment materials