English abstract: Local music provides evidence of community norms and insight into broader historical and cultural contexts. Collections of local music represent delimited geographic regions through documentary artifacts ...

This paper describes the findings of a national survey of local music collection managers in Canadian libraries in 2018. The survey aims to capture a snapshot of local music collection management practices by identifying ...

Sounds of Home brings together research on local music collecting and collections in Canada. Local music collections document music scenes, practices, or histories, which are also bounded to a delimited geographic area. ...

This dataset results from an online survey of Canadian libraries who have local music collections. The survey was conducted from May 3, 2018 to May 22, 2018. The purpose and objectives of the survey were to understand the ...

Artifacts of local music scenes are increasingly being collected and documented in cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums. Managing local music materials requires specialisation that falls ...