Digital Exhibits @ UMKC Libraries

Barney Kessel online exhibit using materials from LaBudde Special Collections and the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. This site was created as part of Advanced Research and Bibliography in Music (Spring 2020).

Dr. Patricia McIlath was a theatre director and the founder of the UMKC Theatre Department and the Missouri Repertory Theatre. This exhibit explores her life and legacy through important milestones in her life.

Online exhibit promoting music scores of 21st century music by composers from underrepresented groups. Copies of the physical scores are available for checkout from the UMKC Music/Media Library.

The UMKC Libraries are pleased to announce the Missouri Humanities Council (MHC) has awarded us a grant of $15,000 to support our upcoming digital project titled From Kansas City to Beijing: Digitizing the Collection of Journalist Edgar Snow. UMKC Libraries contains the personal archives of international journalist and Kansas City native Edgar Snow, including photographs, correspondence, and film footage from his wartime reporting years (1928-1957). Highlights of the collection include materials related to the development of American-Chinese relations in the 20th century. This generous MHC grant provides funding to hire a fellow who can digitize and describe this collection, making it digital for researchers across the globe.

Ultimately, the Digital Projects department hopes to make roughly 80% of the Edgar Snow collection available online (which complies with collection rights and reproduction permissions), and will launch a fundraising campaign in fall of 2025, to hopefully acquire $10,000. If you would like to donate to these efforts, please consider any amount and give at: https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1236/lg24/form.aspx?sid=1236&gid=1&pgid=5831&cid=11772

This exhibit was curated by students enrolled in English 309WI: Rhetorics of Public Memory at UMKC during the spring semester, 2023. The course was designed and taught by Dr. Jane Greer, Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of English.