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The Resource Center at the Old Town School: Listen & Learn

Housed in the basement of our 4544 N Lincoln Ave building since 1999, the Resource Center holds a collection of over 25,000 commercial and archival recordings, videos, books, photos, documents and periodicals. Students and the general public are welcome to explore our holdings, and faculty and staff are encouraged to check out books and recordings.

Since 2015 it’s also been the home of The Archives Podcast, hosted and produced by documentarian Mareva Lindo. The podcast highlights the music and stories of the Old Town School via our collection of live performances, digitized field recordings, and more. In honor of the school’s 60th anniversary in 2017 we released an audio documentary on the school, featuring oral history interviews collected with StoryCorps, along with archival recordings and performances by Ella Jenkins, Studs Terkel, and the school's founders. Listen on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

Come visit us Monday-Thursday 3-9:30PM, and Saturdays 12-5PM. Friendly volunteers staff the center and are always on hand to answer questions and search the collection database. There are two listening stations for in-house use and a comfortable reading lounge in the basement lobby. Go to https://www.oldtownschool.org/resourcecenter/ for more information, or email Resource Center director Colby Maddox at cmaddox [at] oldtownschool [dot] org.