Towers - University of Idaho Newsletter - Vol.15, Issue 1 (2012)

Towers Newsletter of the Library Associates of the University of Idaho Library Winter 2012

Mentors and Masters

Inside this issue: Mentors and Masters................................1-2 Barnard Stockbridge Collection.................................................3 NKN News.........................................................3 Dean’s Corner: Thank You!...........................4 Ways to Give.....................................................4

If we think back, we can all probably think of someone we consider a mentor. Maybe it was a teacher, a coach, a college professor, or a senior colleague at work, but most of us have had the good fortune to meet up with someone who seemed to recognize our potential and take an interest in developing it. These people selflessly invested their own time, energy, and wisdom into supporting us and pushing us to achieve because they saw something in us that we may not even have seen in ourselves. Often, these are the people we have to thank for our success.

The theme of the 2012 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is “Mentors and Masters: Partners Shaping Tomorrow.”

Hampton, himself the beneficiary of early mentorship from no less than Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman, did his best throughout his life to “pay it

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(above) Lionel Hampton with a young student.

From the International Jazz Collection at the University of Idaho Library.

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forward.” Some of Hampton’s protégés are names we all recognize, like Quincy Jones. When Hampton died in 2002, Jones reflected: “It is difficult to find the words to describe the deep sadness that I have today. In our more than 50-year relationship ... Lionel Hampton was a mentor, collaborator and friend to me.

Hamp was the consummate jazz artist....

I cut my teeth writing arrangements for Lionel Hampton, and there was no better school in the world than the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. He taught me how to groove and how to laugh and how to hang and how to live like a man.”

The Lionel Hampton Orchestera, formed in the 1940s, served as a launching pad for many of the brightest lights of the jazz world. Young musicans whom Hampton mentored include Illinois Jacquet, Cat Anderson, Dexter Gordon, Art Farmer, Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Charles Mingus, and Wes Montgomery, and singers Joe Williams, Dinah Washington, Betty Carter, and Aretha Franklin.

Hampton didn’t reserve his generosity, however, for those artists destined for international fame. He was remarkable as a mentor and educator precisely because he touched the lives and careers of many lower profile musicians.

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to the future of music education. In 1985, the University changed the name of the jazz festival to the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and in 1987, the music school was re-named the Lionel Hampton School of Music. In 1996, the jazz festival expanded from three to four days of student competitions, bringing more than 12,000 student musicians to participate. That same year, the Jazz in the Schools program started and Hampton began his annual tradition of performing at Lapwai Elementary School on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation.

The Lionel Hampton Jazz Collection in the University of Idaho Library Special Collections (online in the University of Idaho Library Digital Collections) provides ample photographic evidence of Hampton’s willingness to mentor young musicians of all kinds. In his travels around the Palouse, the United States, and the world, we Hampton rehearsing with one of his own early mentors, Benny see Hampton again and again, performing and teaching in schools Goodman. Photo from the International Jazz Collection and youth programs. It is the tradition of Hampton’s generosity Hampton’s generosity with his time, talent, and attention that the Jazz Festival honors with its inclusion of local student musicians, from elementary through graduate school, and many clinics and workshops.

Steven Remington, executive director of the festival says, “It’s fitting to focus on our mentors and masters, since the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is one of the largest and most anticipated educational Jazz Festivals in the United States. We’re excited to have greats like NEA Jazz Masters Paquito D’Rivera and Roy Hanes working with the next generation of jazz musicians. ” The tradition of supporting young musicians that Hampton established is honored by the yearly work of the jazz festival, which brings in music students of all levels and allows them to experience the teaching and peforming of some of the greatest musicians currently working in jazz. If you are interested in reading more about Lionel Hampton’s life and legacy, you might want to try one of these books, which are available at the University of Idaho Library: Hampton, Lionel, and James Haskins. Hamp: An Autobiography. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1989. Call number: ML419.

H26A3 1989 Crouch, Stanley, and Wynton Marsalis. Flying Home, Lionel Hampton: Celebrating 100 Years of Good Vibes. Ann Arbor,

Mich: State Street Press, 2008. Call number: ML419.H26C76 2008

Hampton after a performance at Vernon Middle School in Vernon, CT in 1976. Photo from the Lionel Hampton Jazz Collection.

Lionel Hampton plays the vibraphone with a group of school children in New York in this undated photo from the Lionel Hampton Jazz Collection.

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Redesigned Barnard Stockbridge Photograph Collection We are delighted to announce the release of the newly redesigned Barnard Stockbridge Photograph Collection: http:// www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/barstock/.

This digital collection contains over 1200 historical photographs of Northern Idaho towns, mines, and mills, including photographs documenting the aftermath of the Big Burn fires of 1910 (an online exhibition of these photos and related documents can be found here: http://www.lib.uidaho. edu/digital/bigburn/). The original collection consists of over 200,000 nitrocellulose and glass plate negatives taken by Nellie Stockbridge and her predecessor, T.N. Barnard. These were given to the University of Idaho Library in 1962.

The web portal allows users to browse these photos by timeline, subject, or Google map interface, view selected photos via an image gallery, and search the photographs’ metadata.

We hope you enjoy these and our other collections. Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments.

--Devin Becker, Digital Initiatives Librarian An 1898 photograph of T.N. Barnard and family at their home in Wallace, Idaho. From Digital Collections.

Northwest Knowledge Network News As was evident from the stream of large boxes from Dell, Inc. that recently appeared in the Library, the Northwest Knowledge Network (NKN) has received its final shipment of server and storage hardware from Dell. This hardware will be installed in the small data center in the basement of the University of Idaho Library and managed by NKN staff. The Northwest Knowledge Network will lease the equipment from Dell via the Office of Research and Economic Development. This hardware will enable NKN to provide computer and storage infrastructure to researchers throughout the Pacific Northwest region. So far we have received a small cluster of enterprise-grade servers, network switches, firewalls, and storage arrays capable of holding nearly 200TB of data. This equipment was carefully chosen for its capacity, performance, scalability, and reliability.

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) agreed to purchase an identical set of hardware for their world-class data center in Idaho Falls. The NKN, in conjunction with INL and the USGS, deployed all of the NKN hardware at INL in early December. All together, this provides NKN with nearly 400TB of total disk space, geographically distributed across Idaho. We have already started using software that allows us to replicate and mirror data in near real-time between Moscow and Idaho Falls at high speeds, leveraging our high-performance network connection via our strategic partnership with the Idaho Regional Optical Network (IRON).

As we finalize the installation of this new hardware in the basement of the University of Idaho Library, we will finally be able to offer researchers throughout Idaho and the broader Pacific Northwest Region a place to securely store their valuable research data products. Mid-March is the target date for completion of Phase I of the NKN web portal, with other phases to follow. The NKN web portal will provide researchers with tools for uploading, downloading, discovering, and annotating their

scientific data products.

The Northwest Knowledge Network will also be interfacing with the University of Idaho Library’s INSIDE Idaho portal in a number of ways to optimize access. We are hard at work harvesting all of the metadata from INSIDE Idaho, and we eventually plan to provide a mechanism for searching INSIDE Idaho via the NKN’s Mercury search engine. The NKN also purchased small hardware upgrades for the INSIDE Idaho servers that will enable these INSIDE servers to directly access subsets of NKN’s 200TB, high-performance storage systems.

--Luke Sheneman,

NKN

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Dean’s Corner Corner: Thank You!

Dr. Lynn Baird, Dean of the Library

library and its programs. With these gifts, you actively partner with the Library, the University of Idaho, and all of our students and faculty to “shape tomorrow.”

Thank you for being a valuable mentor to Idaho’s future musicians, scholars, scientists, teachers, and artists!

As we enjoy the Jazz Festival and look toward spring, I would like to express my deep appreciation for all that you do to support our next generation of leaders.

--Lynn Baird, Dean of Library Services

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As we approach the 2012 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, I’ve been reflecting on this year’s festival theme: “Mentors and Masters: Partners Shaping Tomorrow.” It occurs to me that the Library Associates, through your generous support of the University of Idaho Library and the students and scholars who rely on its resources, are partners in shaping tomorrow. When you support the library, you do so in the true spirit of mentorship, generously investing in the potential of our students. These students may not be in a position to repay your generosity immediately, but with every opportunity your gifts open, you pave the way for the masters of tomorrow, who will hopefully someday go on to support the next generation of leaders and scholars.

The library relies on you, our Library Associates, for support of our new collaborative spaces, growing digital and special collections, electronic resources, and of course, books, as well as your valuable perspectives on library activities and resources, and advocacy for the

Ways to Give

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