Two Houston publications ran stories last week about the DJ Screw Sound Recordings Collection, and we thought you might like to take a look!
DJ Screw Vinyl to be Archived at University of Houston Library (29-95/Houston Chronicle)
University of Houston Libraries Acquires DJ Screw Sound Recordings (Houston Style Magazine)
In August, Special Collections was happy to welcome rapper Paul Wall, a native Houstonian who attended the University of Houston. Wall, who was nominated for a Grammy in 2007 and got his start on the local label SwishaHouse Records, was here for a private tour of the archives and to take a look at materials from the DJ Screw Sound Recordings.
Some DJ Screw materials will be a part of the upcoming exhibit DJ Screw and the Rise of Houston Hip Hop. The exhibit will be on display and open to the public from March 19 – September 21, 2012 in M.D. Anderson Library on the University of Houston Campus.
To inquire about donations, please contact Librarian Julie Grob at jgrob@uh.edu. For updates about the exhibit and the Houston hip hop collection, follow Julie on Twitter.
Last month Z-Ro, Houston rap icon and member of the Screwed Up Click, visited with Librarian Julie Grob here in Special Collections and talked a little bit about the upcoming exhibit DJ Screw and the Rise of Houston Hip Hop.
Take a look (and please pardon the ad):
The Screwed Up Click was a group of freestylers and friends who were associated with the late DJ Screw, developer of the “chopped and screwed” genre of hip hop. The exhibit will be on display and open to the public from March 19 – September 21, 2012 in M.D. Anderson Library on the University of Houston campus.
To inquire about donations, please contact Julie at jgrob@uh.edu. For updates about the exhibit and the Houston hip hop collection, follow Julie on Twitter.
Check out Special Collections’ newest project in the UH Digital Library!
The Historic Maps digital collection contains 30 maps from Houston and Texas, dating from 1840 to 1956. Included are maps of Camp Logan, the World War I-era Army training camp that was the site of a 1917 race riot. A map from 1904 shows cross sections of the Galveston sea wall, and an 1890s map of the Houston Heights features illustrations of residential and public buildings.
Not all the maps are focused on the Houston area. A Texas map from 1876 shows the boundaries of Indian Territory and has insets of Austin and Galveston, and a 1881 map of the Southwest shows the major railroads and gives information about land area and crops. “Reynolds’s Political Map of the United States” from 1856 depicts all the free and slave states and territories of the Union at the time of the second Missouri Compromise.
But that’s not all! Take a look at this great collection in the Digital Library, or visit Special Collections to see them in person.
The USS Houston Survivors Association and the Next Generation welcome applicants from the University of Houston student body for their Scholarship Program. The scholarship is open to any university undergraduate with a keen interest in the story of the USS Houston (CA-30). The scholarship amount typically ranges from $1000.00 to $1500.00.
The USS Houston (CA-30), a heavy cruiser named for the city of Houston, was both the favorite ship of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet during World War II. Following the Houston’s sinking by the Japanese in 1942, her surviving crew members became prisoners-of-war. For more details, see the USS Houston (CA-30) Exhibit on the second floor of the library, the online Cruiser Houston exhibit, or the archival Cruiser Houston Collection available for use in Special Collections at M.D. Anderson Library.
Those eligible to apply include students entering the final year of high school with anticipation of going to college, as well as all college and university undergraduates up through the final year of study. Previous applicants and winners may reapply. Applicants are required to present grades and evidence of other personal attributes, and to write an essay about the crew of the USS Houston.
Applications are accepted beginning June 1 with the deadline for submission extending to November 1. Applications and specific information about applying may be obtained any time by mailing a request to:
John Keith Schwarz
2500 Clarendon Blvd Apt 121
Arlington, VA 22201