Lowell Lybarger is a music/multimedia librarian and director of the Music Lab
at Arkansas Tech University.
Lowell holds an MA in ethnomusicology from the
University
of Washington,
an MLIS from Kent
State
University, and a PhD in musicology from the
University of Toronto. His PhD dissertation is an
ethnography of
the tabla
players of Pakistani Panjab for which research was supported by the Fulbright Program and Pakistan National Council of Arts. Lowell taught courses in musicology, library instruction, information literacy, and music technology in Lahore,
Pakistan as a UNESCO consultant (2004) and HEC visiting professor (2007) for the National
College of Arts and
Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts.
After completing his MLIS degree in December 2006, Lowell became
the technical consultant and archivist for a preservation project at Radio-Television Afghanistan, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In June 2008, Lowell participated in a Rotrary Group Study
Exchange to Misiones, Argentina and Paraguay to study libraries and
music culture.