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Stanford University Libraries has received grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for $93,393 and from Save America's Treasures for $225,000 together with a grant to the Monterey Jazz Festival from the GRAMMY Foundation for $40,000 for a three-year project to preserve all of the audio tapes documenting the history of the Monterey Jazz Festival from 1958 to 2001 in digital form.

Once the recordings are digitized, the original tapes will be placed in optimal environmental conditions for long-term preservation. The digital recordings will be fully indexed in a database searchable from any location through the Internet, and a Web page describing the collection will be linked to the Stanford University Libraries and Monterey Jazz Festival Web sites. The recordings will be available for listening, study, and research at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. The project will be directed by Hannah Frost, media preservation librarian as project coordinator with Jerry McBride, head librarian of the Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound, and Tim Jackson, general manager of the Monterey Jazz Festival, as project directors in coordination with Stanford's newly formed Digital Library Systems and Services in the Stanford University Libraries.

The Monterey Jazz Festival, a nonprofit organization dedicated to perpetuating the performance of jazz, was founded in 1958. The Monterey Jazz Festival became established as one of the foremost jazz festivals in the United States and soon received international recognition. The...

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