Scott Schwartz

Scott Schwartz has been the University of Illinois' Archivist for Music and Fine Arts and the Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music since September 2003. In addition he serves as Associate Professor of Library Administration and teaches archival administration and arrangement/description courses through the University's Graduate School for Library and Information Science.

Prior to his tenure at the University of Illinois, he served over ten years as an archivist for the National Museum of American History's Archives Center where he was responsible for the arrangement, description, and long-term preservation of the Center's music collections, related photograph collections, as well as the creation of new on-line information access tools.

Currently he serves as one of the two principle developers of the University's new open-source collections management tool, Archon, created to meet the descriptive and access needs of small academic and institutional archives and special collections libraries.

Schwartz has been an active member of the Society of American Archivists and Midwest Archives Conference for many years and served as chair of SAA's Membership Committee and Key Contact Program between 1996 and 2005. His scholarly presentations and publications have focused on public programming, preserving America's music heritage, American popular music, and the music and culture of the Appalachian serpent-handling communities of rural Kentucky.

He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from SUNY at Fredonia in 1980, Masters of Music from Michigan State University in 1984, and completed three years of doctoral studies in ethnomusicology between 1984 and 1987 while at West Virginia University.