1. An Introduction

2. Overview History & Mission Content Functionality Contact Us

3. History & Mission DRAM (formerly the Database of Recorded American Music) was founded to disseminate music of cultural and academic value that is difficult to acquire through the commercial marketplace Grew out of New World Records, a non-profit record label operating since 1975 DRAM, also non-profit, continues with funding from the Robert Sterling Clark and The Andrew W. Mellon foundations and participating libraries

4. Content DRAM’s content is unique –Currently over 1,500 CDs (almost 9,000 compositions) –Diverse New World Records American music recordings Folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond –Other labels currently signed (content in process of being added to DRAM) include: CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening, Mutable, Cold Blue Music, Artifact Recordings, Frog Peak Music –Alliances with other major and independent labels and archival sources are crucial to DRAM's goal of collecting unique, difficult- to-find recordings for educational use and scholarly research

5. Functionality Web streaming using QuickTime player (6.5.2 or later preferred) –Basic player: no pause, rewind, fast-forward –Album and track level listening Downloading not yet available No limit to simultaneous users Browsing and Keyword Searching Available –No genre searching yet; use simple genre keywords in “Search All” (e.g., jazz in All)

6. Functionality: Browsing Select “Browse” from main page Select content area you wish to browse

7. Functionality: Searching Enter “Search” on main page –The simpler, the better (use one terms where possible) –No Boolean available with basic search –Not case sensitive Search results retrieve track and album results

8. Functionality: Advanced Searching Additional fields are searchable Boolean “AND” search possible - just add search boxes (Boolean does not work within a box) Can use advanced search to refine a previous search

9. Functionality: Listening to Music Select a track or album after browsing or searching by: –Choosing icon for item or –Choosing item, then selecting icon from album track list Player will open in a new window and start once it has loaded

10. Functionality: Listening to Music If you encounter any security windows, click through them - track/album will then load and play

11. Questions? Check About pages http://dram.nyu.edu/dram/_html/about.html Contact (9.30 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. US EST): Stephanie Krueger, skrueger@newworldrecords.orgskrueger@newworldrecords.org p. 646.442.7036 Thank you very much for listening to DRAM!