World's Biggest Springsteen Memorabilia Collection Moves Home

Hennemusic reports that songbooks, tour programs, magazines and other documents from 44 countries are currently housed at the Asbury Park Public Library, where they are kept in storage and available for viewing only by appointment. At their new home in Momouth University, the collection will be better preserved and more widely available to the public, school officials said.

"The collection not only offers Springsteen fans the chance to explore various aspects of his career, but students, scholars, and journalists will also benefit from the access that Monmouth University will now provide," said Robert Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles and a Monmouth graduate who helped broker the deal with the private university.

"The additional space at Monmouth allows for the collection to grow and in the future include recordings, oral histories, film footage and other documents," Santelli added.

Library officials and the Friends of the Bruce Springsteen Special Collection, a nonprofit, fundraising group, have been searching for a new site for the memorabilia for years. The growing collection had outgrown the Asbury Park library’s storage space.

"At the university, the collection will be publicly accessible to all who have a serious interest in Bruce Springsteen’s life and career," said Christopher Phillips, president of the Friends of the Bruce Springsteen Special Collection and editor and publisher of Backstreets, a magazine devoted to Springsteen and other Jersey Shore musicians.

In addition to magazines, newspaper articles and tour memorabilia, the collection includes the program from Springsteen’s 1967 high school graduation, a copy of the eulogy Springsteen delivered at the funeral of E Street Band keyboardist Danny Federici in 2008 and copies of various comic books that reference Springsteen.

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