The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) has been awarded a 2021 Recordings at Risk grant in the amount of $41,589 from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for the project titled “Preserving the Jazz Legacy of Bud Powell: The Francis Paudras Film Collection at the Institute of Jazz Studies.”

These home movies and private footage of the jazz legend Bud Powell were created by Powell’s caretaker, Francis Paudras, during Powell’s years as an expatriate in France (1959–1964). Many were filmed in Paudras’s Paris apartment, European festivals, clubs, and vacation destinations. Most are unique fragmentary short clips with solo and non-solo musical performances by Powell, as well as interviews with Powell and other jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie. The films include spectator footage of Powell’s 1966 funeral in New York and some live recordings of Powell in concert.

This project is supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Archivists Christie Lutz and Caryn Radick of Special Collections and University Archives have been awarded the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance's 2021 Teaching Award for their Byrne Seminar classes.

Byrne Seminars are small, one-credit courses available exclusively to first-year undergraduate students at Rutgers–New Brunswick.

In Lutz’s course, “Examining Archives Through the Lens of Popular Culture,” students utilized the archives and special collections to explore a wide range of topics such as the New Brunswick music scene, cookbooks from around the Garden State, magazines, protest movement posters, and Jersey Shore memorabilia.  

Radick’s course “Only in New Jersey! New Jersey’s History in Newspapers” looks at the history of New Jersey newspapers and the work of the New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project to learn how life in New Jersey unfolded in its newspapers. Students create “topic guides” modeled on those found in the Library of Congress.