A Virtual Walk Through Tin Pan Alley

The Chronicle of Higher Ed is reporting on a cool new Online Archive at Mississippi State University\’s Templeton Sheet Music Collection.

The university\’s library is digitizing and conserving the collection, an archive of about 22,000 pieces of ragtime, blues, show-tune, and war-song folios from the 1890s to the Great Depression.

Bay County\’s Sage Branch Library seems to be taking the opposite approach, selling off volumes from the original collection of the library from 1884.