August 2011
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LoC podcast with Jennifer Egan in anticipation for... →
September 24-25 on the National Mall in DC! More discussion on nostalgia, music, technology, time and “fetishizing” connectedness.
McSweeney's on Libraries →
thoughts? opinions? facts? copy/pasted text below (for educational purposes and/or those to lazy to click hyperlinks):
WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY!
BY TYLER STODDARD SMITH - - - -
It’s a real honor to stand at this podium I fashioned out of our last two copies of Homer and an old card catalog to tell you about exciting things happening at the library. Now, as we all know, during a budget surplus,...
first week of classes
music librarianship and archives management - here’s hoping that means more posts related to the profession!
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“The way he listens to music is one of the most endearing and sweet things I’ve...”
– Joanna Newsom describing the way Bill Callahan listens to music. (via dear-charming-kite). Applicable to the print experience as well (in my humble opinion).
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LIS-friendly album #2: The Kinks are the Village... →
The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, by The Kinks (Reprise Records, 1968)
Tracks:
Side One
The Village Green Preservation Society
Do You Remember Walter?
Picture Book
Johnny Thunder
Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
Big Sky
Sitting by the Riverside
Side Two
Animal Farm
Village Green
Starstruck
Phenomenal Cat
All of My Friends Were There
Wicked Annabella
...
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LIS-friendly album #1: Bookends →
Side One of Bookends, by Simon & Garfunkel (Columbia Records, 1968)
Tracks:
Bookends Theme
Save the Life of My Child
America
Overs
Voices of Old People
Old Friends
Bookends
preview it on grooveshark; buy it at your local record shop
