New LC National Digital Library Collection

[Tamara Swora]

The American Folklife Center and the National Digital Library Program at
the Library of Congress announce the release of the online presentation:

_Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin
Migrant
Worker Collection_, a multi-format ethnographic field collection from
the
American Folklife Center's Archive of Folk Culture, has just been made
available through the National Digital Library Program of the Library of
Congress (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html). This
collection documents the everyday life of residents of Farm Security
Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940
and
1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs,
manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera generated during two
separate documentation trips undertaken by Todd and Sonkin.

In addition, beginning at noon on January 8th , viewers may enjoy "Today
in History," accessible through the Library of Congress's main homepage
(http://lcweb.loc.gov/).  The entry uses the fiddle tune "Eighth of
January" as represented in _Voices from the Dust Bowl_.

The following materials on our website may also be of interest:

_California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the '30s_, another
ethnographic field collection from the American Folklife Center's
Archive
of Folk Culture, continues to be
available online (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html).
This elaborate online collection includes sound recordings, still
photographs, drawings, and manuscripts documenting the musical
traditions
of a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking
communities in California. It comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded
in
twelve languages representing 185 musicians.

_Folklife Sourcebook: A Directory of Folklife Resources in the United
States_ has been revised and expanded for 1997. Chapters include
directories for graduate programs, public sector folklore organizations,
archives, serial publications, and more. This edition will be available
as
an online resource only. Please send updates on information in the
directory to Peter Bartis,
peba at loc.gov. The URL for this publication is:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/sourcebk.html

In addition, the Folklife Center's web pages include many popular
publications, guides to collections, information about projects to
publish
recordings from the collections on CD, and the Folkline information
service. The URL for the Center's home page is:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/

NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM
American Folklife Center
Library of Congress
January 7, 1998

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