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Vinyl record sales spike as young people embrace old-school style

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UMKC Immersed in Charlie Parker’s Celebration

Chuck Haddix will serve as speaker for the Cockefair Luncheon

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UMKC’s Massive Marr Sound Archives to Move to Robot

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UMKC Libraries Nets Federal Challenge Grant for Special Collections

National Endowment for the Humanities providing $500,000 in matching funds

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Marr Sound Archives Digitally Preserves its KMBC Radio Collection

More than 445 hours of historically significant radio programming preserved

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UMKC Libraries receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant to catalog and preserve KMBC collections

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Key figures in the Mississippi Blues Trail project, which was aided by UMKC's Marr Sound Archives, stand near the Tutwiler Blues Trail marker. From left are Tutwiler Mayor Genether Miller-Spurlock; Blues Trail research chairman Jim O'Neal; rock superstar Robert Plant; former Tutwiler Mayor Robert Grayson; and state Sen. David Jordan. Photo by Panny Flautt Mayfield.

A global resource

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UMKC’s New Letters on the Air is a finalist for an international radio award

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Marr Archives preserve historic ‘Day of Infamy’ audio

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