Sound Out! Connecting the Library & the City Through Space, Time & Space

Description

The Sonic Histories of Cork City (SHOCC) Project is an interdisciplinary research project between members of UCC Library’s Special Collections and UCC’s Dept. of Music. The SHOCC Project explores relationships between sound, space and history. By using archival and historical sources, including letters, travel narratives, maps and almanacs, the SHOCC Project team investigates what locations in Cork City might have sounded like in various moments in the city’s past. The project gives UCC’s MA students and members of the public opportunities to both engage creatively with the city’s histories through soundscapes and to contribute to Cork’s present sounds. Such engagement aims to teach people about Cork City’s fascinating past and present, but also to encourage people to think critically about present and future spaces.

In this presentation we discuss how the SHOCC Project fully underpins UCC’s connected curriculum enhancing the relationship between teaching and research. This collaboration is possible by considering the library as a fourth space: the library actively engaging in projects through collaborative partners of faculty, students and library brings the university into its wider constituency, contributing to society in general. Such activity is vital to any library or academic strategy, particularly one which encompasses community engagement.

Period	19 Mar 2019
Event title	Academic & Special Libraries Group of Libraries Association of Ireland Annual Conference: Library; Space, Place, or State of Mind?
Event type	Conference
Location	Dublin, IrelandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National