Looking At: Jazz, America's Art Form
Award Announcement

National Video Resources (NVR), in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office, has named 43 public and academic libraries nationwide as pilot sites for the documentary film viewing and discussion series    “Looking At: Jazz, America’s Art Form.” 

 

This six-week initiative features six carefully curated viewing and discussion programs accompanied by a selection of compelling documentary films, essays written by eminent scholars, and an extensive resource guide for additional reading, Web sites, videos and DVDs.

 

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) provides support for “Looking At: Jazz.”

 

“Looking At: Jazz” explores the history of jazz music, an art form that evolved in the 20th century to occupy a unique place in American cultural history. Themes for the six programs in the series are:

• New Orleans: The Birthplace of Jazz
• The Jazz Age and the 1920s
• The Women of Jazz
• The Jazz Swing Era
• Jazz Innovators: From Bebop, to Hard Bop, to Cool and More
• Latin Jazz 

A total of 50 nonprofit institutions were selected to participate. Each one will receive materials and resources (films, written materials, publicity materials, access to an electronic discussion list and project Web site), inclusion in a 1.5 day training workshop and a cash grant of $1,000. The training workshop will be held September 29-30, 2006 in Chicago.

 

The 43 libraries selected for the pilot program are:

 

University of Alaska, Consortium Library, Anchorage, Alaska

 

Central Arkansas Library, Little Rock, Arkansas

 

Phoenix Public Library, Phoenix, Arizona

 

Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California

 

Sacramento Public Library, Sacramento, California

 

San Diego Public Library, San Diego, California

 

New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven, Connecticut

 

Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, Florida

 

Orange County Library, Orlando, Florida

 

University of South Florida Tampa Library, Tampa, Florida

 

Albany State University Library, Albany, Georgia

 

Athens-Clarke County Library, Athens, Georgia

 

University of Idaho Library, Moscow, Idaho

Cedar Rapids Public Library, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

 

Bloomington Public Library, Bloomington, Illinois

 

Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, Illinois

 

Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

 

University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas

 

Wichita State University Library, Wichita, Kansas

 

Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

 

East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

 

New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana

 

Albert S. Cook Library, Towson University, Townson, Maryland

 

Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan

 

Minneapolis Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri

 

University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, New Hampshire

 

Princeton Public Library, Princeton, New Jersey

 

Northern Onondaga Public Library, Cicero, New York

 

Queens Library, Jamaica, New York

 

Kent State University Library, Kent, Ohio

 

Carlson Library, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio

 

Multnomah County Library, Portland, Oregon

 

Langston Hughes Memorial Library, Lincoln University, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

 

Gumberg Library, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island

 

Charleston County Public Library, Charleston, South Carolina

 

University Libraries, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

 

Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas

 

Williamsburg Regional Library, Williamsburg, Virginia

 

Bellingham Public Library, Bellingham, Washington

 

Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

Natrona County Public Library, Casper, Wyoming

 

The 7 nonprofit institutions selected for the pilot program are:

 

Jazz89 KUVO in partnership with the Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado

 

Grand Rapids Community Media Center in partnership with the Grand Rapids Public Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

Minnesota State University Mankato, Mankato, Minnesota

 

Tribeca Performing Arts Center in partnership with the A. Philip Randolph Memorial    Library at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, New York

 

University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina

 

Texas Music Museum in partnership with the Austin Public Library - Howson Branch, Austin, Texas

 

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

 

 

  Please contact publicprograms@ala.org with questions.