STUDENT ENGAGEMENT THROUGH PROGRAMMING IN THE MUSIC LIBRARY

Jennifer Cheney Laski

Music Librarian

Elizabeth City State University

ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY

ECSU

� HBCU

� Smallest campus in the UNC system

� Declining enrollment and budget constraints

� Fall 2015, 1585 enrollment

� NC Promise Tuition Plan

Visual & Performing Arts

� Comprised of Graphic Design & Music

� Performance

� Education

� Music Business

� Music Engineering and Technology

� NASM accreditation in 2007

� 36 music students currently

THE MUSIC LIBRARY

Approx. 2000 cataloged scores and monographs245 Cataloged CDs & DVDs

Estimated 750 items uncataloged

LIBRARY AS PLACE

Academic Support

Tech Support

Everything Else

Cultural Hub

ECSU Music

Library

LISTENING PARTY #1

�Kendrick Lamar

� National Library Week, April 2016

� Music driven conversation:� The music itself

� The artist

� Social/Cultural connections

LISTENING PARTY #1

� 3 participants attended

� Music Department rehearsal conflict

� Poor Marketing

� Great response

� Request for more programs

LISTENING PARTY #2

� Beyoncé's Lemonade

� Partnered with the music faculty

� 20 participants� Visual aspect

� Timed during the 2nd week of school

� Posters were up before school started

� Student Listserv

� Music driven conversation:� Music and Sampling

� Social/Cultural connections

LISTENING PARTY #2

� Beyoncé's Lemonade

� Partnered with the music faculty

� 20 participants� Visual aspect

� Timed during the 2nd week of school

� Posters were up before school started

� Student Listserv

� Music driven conversation:� Music and Sampling

� Social/Cultural connections

LISTENING SEMINAR #3

� Hamilton: An American Musical

� Recital Attendance

� 9 participants

� Music driven conversation:� Music and Sampling

� Social/Cultural connections

� Politics

� Historical connections to the present

� Faculty Feedback� Students are talking about the session in class!!

CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE FUTURE

� Several inquiries about the next one!

� Time consuming

� Cost effective

� ACRL IL Frames addressed:� Information Has Value

� Research as Inquiry

� Scholarship as Conversation

HOW TO DO IT IN YOUR LIBRARY

� Choose music� Consider student recognition

� What will bring student’s to your event?

� Keep Fair Use restrictions in mind

� Choose a date� Work with your faculty (recital attendance, music appreciation extra credit).

� Inform your target audience & use word of mouth

� Prep for discussion� What do you feel comfortable discussing with students?

� Put on your musicology glasses – you have the training

� Length of discussion

QUESTIONS?

Jennifer Cheney Laski

Elizabeth City State University

jclaski@ecsu.edu