How To Search the Repository

How To Search the Repository

The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive consists of roughly 33,500 artifacts. It is digitized and accessible through Northwestern University Libraries’ Digital Collections repository.

Visitors can browse the repository by using the simple search interface:

  1. Example of searching the repositoryA text box option allows for searching by names, keywords, dates, or other search terms.
  2. Use the Show Filter/ Hide Filter toggle to bring up categories to fine-tune search results.
  3. On the filter sidebar, choose search parameters such as type of artifact; box or folder name or number; or another specific aspect of the material.

Alternatively, one can use the Digital Finding Aid, which replicates the original Finding Aid for the Archive and includes links by Box and Folder.

Navigating Inside the Repository

Once at the page for an individual artifact inside the digital Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive, the Libraries’ Digital Collections interface has many useful tools:

  1. Example of navigating the repositoryNavigational window: While zoomed in to see detail of an image, drag this red box to more easily navigate.
  2. Item Details: Under this heading, find algorithmically generated related images, a metadata identifier, and social media icons for sharing the artifact.
  3. More Details: Information on date, description, dimensions, genre, and any copyright information that is available. This also leads to a “Find this Item” tab to see in which box and folder the artifact is located.
  4. Cite This Item: Provides citation information in Ark, APA, Chicago/Turabian, MLA, and Wikipedia formats.
  5. Download and Share: Download a JPG file—both front (recto) and back (verso); obtain an HTML embed code; or embed rich image viewer code using International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) standards.

Navigating to Audio and Video Artifacts

The audio and video recordings from the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive reside in Northwestern Libraries’ Audio + Video Repository. The materials include interviews, demo recordings, auditions, and recordings of folk concerts both at the Berkeley Festival itself as well as at other events.

Navigating Back to the Exhibit

When you enter into the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive’s digital repository, you are leaving the exhibit website, however it is easy to return to it. Just use the back button of your browser or enter the following url: https://sites.northwestern.edu/bfmf.

Help Us Get It Right

In developing the digital version of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Archive, cataloguers created over 1,300 new Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) records, a major contribution to official library subject data and identifying information. That said, there are more people, places, and metadata details to add, as well as likely corrections and improvements to make to the digital repository. We welcome your input and comments to help us continue to improve the accuracy of this rich, wide-ranging collection of materials.