Librarians and archivists in the Halifax Regional Municipality were surveyed using a series of online questionnaires in order to identify library outreach strategies that could potentially be used by archives. Participants were asked for their opinions about the planning, implementation, and evaluation of outreach programmes in which they had been involved. The responses indicated that many aspects of library outreach are applicable to archival settings. In particular, the authors recommend that existing outreach programmes be expanded through a more broadly-based approach, one that promotes information literacy, connects with youth and children, partners with the community, and engages with the public in a variety of settings outside the confines of the physical archive. The Application of Library Outreach Strategies in Archival SettingsAbout the Author(s): Creighton Barrett is currently a student in the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University and is also serving as Co-Chair of the School of Information Management Students' Association. Creighton earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Acadia University in 2007. This paper was co-researched and co-written for the Research Methods course in the School of Information Management.Braden Cannon is a second year MLIS student at Dalhousie University's School of Information Management and is also the co-chair of Dalhousie's student branch of the Association of Canadian Archivists. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Film Studies from Carleton University and co-wrote this paper as part of the Research Methods class at the School of Information Management.Liam O'Hare is currently completing the second year of the MLIS programme at Dalhousie University. He is also the Vice-Chair Academic of the School of Information Management Students' Association. His previous studies were at the University of Toronto, where he earned a BA (Hons.) and an MA in Medieval Studies. This paper was researched and written for a Research Methods course at the School of Information Management.
How can theatre archives be effectively utilized to teach about theatre? What opportunities do they pose for teaching in other disciplines? What considerations must archives staff make when providing access to theatre archives? This article aims to address such questions by providing an overview of an ongoing collaboration at Dalhousie University. For the past several years, the Dalhousie University Archives has collaborated with Dr. Roberta Barker of the Dalhousie Theatre Department on a course project in which students research production records from the Neptune Theatre fonds. This article outlines the pedagogical goals of the assignment and touches upon the challenges associated with using theatre archives to facilitate undergraduate learning and teaching. It also looks at another recent course project that used Neptune Theatre’s archives to teach core archival concepts to graduate students in the Dalhousie School of Information Management. In the process, it considers how the unique characteristics of theatre archives can enable multidisciplinary collaborations between archivists and university faculty.
Singing, particularly psalm singing, has enjoyed a lengthy tradition among Christian churches. “Singing God’s praises brings us nearer to the exercises of Heaven than any other service we can engage on earth” proclaimed one nineteenth-century advertisement. Churches as well as singing schools frequently relied on tunes that circulated across countries and oceans through oral transmission and increasingly through printed tune books, as the capacity of printing technologies expanded in the nineteenth century and pricing of books became affordable to larger numbers of citizens. Singing instructions, tunes, and hymns were printed, reprinted, and modified to meet local demand. Music styles that lost favour in some countries continued to flourish in other settings. The first printed music in Nova Scotia, The Harmonicon, was produced in a Presbyterian context in 1838. Three decades later, demand for a new tune book prompted the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces of British North America to publish The Choir, a compilation designed to satisfy “a healthy taste for sacred music.” First published in Halifax in 1871, this volume was the mainstay of Maritime Presbyterian congregations for the remainder of the century. This paper traces the history of the production of The Choir, compiled by the church’s Committee on Psalmody. Details about the editions and reprinting of the tune book are provided. The paper concludes with an examination of the contents of the volume, where particular attention is given to elements of the book that illustrate the compilers’ attention to the local audience for which it was intended, including the use of local place names for tune titles, and the inclusion of locally composed tunes and fuging tunes, which were written for an antiquated singing style that persisted in the Maritimes long after it faded from church music in other parts of North America and the United Kingdom.
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