PHILADELPHIA – Little Richard, Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry sharing space with the works of Shakespeare and Chaucer in Penn's Library?

Harvey Sheldon, a retired Philadelphia and Los Angeles disc jockey, is donating his extensive rock ‘n' roll video collection to Penn's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Sheldon will announce his donation at a showing of the videos on Sept. 19 at 5:30 p.m., Sept. 19, in the Library on Locust Walk, near 34th Street. The collection, mostly on film, includes more than 3,000 titles from the 1950s to the ‘90s, from the Beach Boys to the Rolling Stones. Sheldon will introduce highlights of the videos and will be available for interviews.

"In the ‘60s, I started collecting the videos from record companies and movie studios," Sheldon said. "It means a lot to me that a great university has this collection so that when someone wants to study the history of music they will have this available to them."

The gift, which will be added to the Penn Music Library's multi-media collections, will be named the "Harvey Sheldon Rock and Roll Music Video Research Library."

"This collection is an extraordinary document of American music and culture," said Marjorie Hassen, Penn's music librarian.

Sheldon, a Philadelphia native, was a dancer on the "American Bandstand" TV show and co-creator of the Bunny Hop dance. He now lives in Los Angeles.