Title of Thesis: Observing Cassette Culture: User Interface Implications for Digital Music Libraries Examining Committee:

ii Many people keep their collections of music on cassette tape even if they rarely listen to them. Images of these collections are online on photo sharing websites. What can we learn from such collections and what might they tell us about designing interfaces for new digital music libraries? The author conducts an online ethnographic study of over two hundred cassette tape collections, and over sixty participants with the aim of guiding future design of music collections