Marr Sound Archives
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About Marr
The collection includes extensive holdings of jazz, blues, country and popular music; historic voices and authors reading their own works; vintage radio programs; classical and opera. The Marr holds a wide range of historic formats including LPs, 78s, 45s, cylinders, transcription discs, instantaneous-cut discs and open-reel tapes. The archives maintain sound recordings for a number of archival for collections shared with LaBudde Special Collections. The recordings in Marr, currently numbering over 325,000, do not circulate but listing stations are available in the Archives.
Archival Collections - The Marr Sound Archives houses a number of discrete, one of a kind collections, which can be a great resource for scholars.
Commercial Collections - The Marr Sound Archives catalogs our commercial collection of LPs and 78s and they can be found in the UMKC Library Catalog (MERLIN).
Digital Projects - The sound archives maintain a number of online exhibits that showcase historic recordings and archival collections. The audio files are served using RealAudio.
Link to Marr Sound Archives website.