Archives ….and all that Jazz
Jared Negley, Slippery Rock University Archives assistant
Jared Negley, former Slippery Rock University graduate, is
Bailey Library’s newest Archives assistant. Negley graduated from SRU in 2008
with a Bachelor in the Arts of Music degree and an East Asian Studies
Minor.
Jared is an avid jazz musician and plays the upright
bass. His freelance jazz playing led him
from gigs at the North Country Brewery in Slippery Rock and the Butler Symphony
Office, to playing with bands like the Trinity Jazz Orchestra and the
Harmony-Zelienople Jazz Band. He teaches private music lessons and taught jazz
combo and improvisation with a team of other SRU student assistants at the Slippery
Rock University Summer Creative & Performing Arts Academy. He also taught bass, rhythm section and ear
training master classes.
As an undergrad, Negley spent much of his time in Bailey
Library studying and doing group work. He then procured employment as a student
worker in the Serials department where he helped patrons locate periodicals and
prepared journals for binding, as well as updated holding records. It was during this time that he realized he
wanted to become a librarian with music as his specialty. Jared also has another tie with Bailey
Library. His mother, Dorothyann Negley,
worked at Bailey in the Technical Services Department for 32 years until her
retirement in 2010.
In 2008, Jared continued his education at Rutgers University
in New Jersey where he studied Jazz History and Research until his graduation
in 2010 with his Master of the Arts degree.
While at Rutgers, Negley taught a course on the history of rock and pop
music. At the Institute of Jazz Studies in New Jersey, he gained valuable
experience as an Archives assistant, working there from 2008 to 2010.
The Pratt Institute came next where Jared earned his Master
of Science degree in Library and Information Sciences in 2012. During this period he furthered his archival
experience with an internship at the Louis Armstrong Archives in Queens, New
York. “I like working in libraries. I like the idea of giving people free access
to information and preserving our history,” said Negley.
Then, in the latter part of 2014, Slippery Rock University
Archives department advertised for an Archives assistant to create an online database
for record groups and collections, and to digitize and upload photos. Jared applied, was interviewed, and offered
the position. He accepted, and the rest,
as they say, is history.
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