The Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) is the largest and most comprehensive library and archives of jazz and jazz-related materials in the world. It is located on the fourth floor of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University–Newark in Newark, New Jersey. The archival collection contains more than 100,000 sound recordings on CDs, LPs, EPs, 78- and 75-rpm disks, and 6,000 books.[1] It also houses over 30 instruments used by prominent jazz musicians.
The Jazz Studies academic program at Rutgers for music students is separate from the library and is part of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at the university.
In 2013, the Institute was designated a Literary Landmark by New Jersey's Center for the Book in the National Registry of the Library of Congress.[2] It is the fifth place in New Jersey to be given this designation, after the Newark Public Library, Paterson Public Library, the Walt Whitman House and the Joyce Kilmer Tree, which is located at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
Major collections housed in the Institute include the Jazz Oral History Project, the Mary Lou Williams collection, the Women In Jazz collection, the Benny Carter Audio collection, and the Benny Goodman Audio collection.
- ^ Edward Berger; Henry Martin; Dan Morgenstern; Evan Spring; George Bassett (1 June 2009). Annual Review of Jazz Studies 14. Scarecrow Press. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-8108-6921-9.
- ^ Watkins, Ann. "Institute of Jazz Studies To Receive Literary Landmarks Designation from the New Jersey Center for the Book". Rutgers-Newark. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
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