Generations of Vinyl Records
A look into music taste throughout the generations of one family.
Contents: About the Collection | History of Vinyl | Technical Details | Rights Statement | Citations | Tech
About the Collection
“This site hosts a digitized collection of various vinyl records from the Speas and Moore families (learn more about the families here on the Contributor Page.) These records come from four different generations of two families. I, Allie Speas, am the fourth-generation in this collection. Most of my albums were either purchased by myself, bought new or thrifted, or gifted to me from dear friends and family. The third-generation is my dad, Jim Speas, and he influenced my music taste quite a bit as a child. The second-generation is my grandfather, Riki Moore, who actually gave me his record collection as well as his parents’ collection. This leaves us with the first-generation being Eva Moore.
I got my first record player as a junior in high school. My parents found it at a garage sale and brought it back home to me as a surprise. I had always wanted one and receiving this record player was a beloved gift. It has followed me from switching rooms in my house to traveling three hours away for my undergraduate education, and the wonderful tank still works like a charm.
Getting a record playing jumpstarted my need to collect and purchase various vinyl records, despite how much my bank account cries because of it. It is also how I came into possession of my grandfather’s and his mom’s collections. My grandfather gave me all of them for Christmas the year that I got the record player.
Some of my personal vinyls are Billy Joel’s The Stranger, which I found in a thrift store near my undergrad, and Sleeping at Last’s Atlas: Space. My music taste is quite broad and as a result most of the genres that are represented by my thirteen records are all over the place. However, other generations are more specific to one or two genres.
I am extremely grateful to all of my friends and family who have gifted records to me. I am also grateful to these people as each person has shaped me and my music taste in some fashion.
This project was created for Z652: Digital Libraries with Dr. Walsh and Gyuri Kang.
History of Vinyl
If you are interested in learning more about vinyl, and the history behind it, then this website is a great resource.
Technical Details
Vinyls in this collection are contained in single image JPEG files. Both the front and back of the vinyl covers are seperate JPEG files.
Metadata fields for this project are listed below. Those with links are searchable and will take you to the browse page for that field:
- Title
- Format
- Artist
- Genres
- Owner
- Call Number
- Description
- Latitude & Longitude
- Location
You can see the Metadata Application Profile here.
Rights Statement
I believe that these vinyls fall under Non-Commercial Use Permitted, and this repository is not meant for commercial use.
Citations
Controlled Vocabularies
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.