This article in the Rolling Stone online newsletter explains why some of us Luddites still keep our record albums and record players. Not being able to explain myself about my dedication to these antiques, Levine discusses why music just doesn’t sound the same anymore. So if you ever wonder why music sounds tinny, lacks variety or is just loud (I thought I was just getting old) read this article for a solid lesson in music production theory: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity?utm_source=weekly-newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Jan
08
Death of High Fidelity
20
Dec
07
A New Kind of Reading Experience
Jeff Bezos, the guy who brought us Amazon.com has created a better e-book. Called the Kindle this new reading gadget is suppose to be better than the old e-books that were hard to read and had a short memory. To read more about Bezos’, Kindle go to:
20
Nov
07
40 Years of Rolling Stone part 3
Rolling Stone has become more than just a culture exchange of music it has become a loud voice in the information age. RS40 interviews 25 “artists, scientists, and leaders who helped shape our time.” Read these interviews via Rolling Stones digital edition http://www.rollingstoneextras.com/rsdigitaledition/editionLg.php . Want to skip the ads just go to control+ F +Tim Berners-Lee and scroll the drop down list.
As an information professional I am constantly reminded how thankful I am for the freedom of information. In USA Today how else would we know that a certain type of craft bead from China is so dangerous.
25
Oct
07
Kansas Memory is Up and Running!
Researchers and Archivists prepare to be astounded!
Kansas Memory is up and running and it is an awesome piece of work. Go to http://www.kansasmemory.org/ and you could spend hours viewing digitized letters, photographs and advertisements. This is digitization at its best (and I’m not just saying that because I interned there) by making Kansas history an international beacon of research.
Way to go Kansas State Historical Society!
Sheryl Baber Evans
Being a buttkicking librarian I like to catch other librarians doing interesting things in movies. One that caught my eye was Jet Li’s, “Black Mask.”
The film concerns a man named Tsui Chik (Michael in the American version), who tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project, and when he discovers that other test subjects have begun a violent crime spree that the police are helpless to stop, he sets out to stop them himself by donning a disguise and using the superhero alias of “Black Mask”. Having lost the ability to feel pain due to experiments performed on him by the military, Black Mask is nigh invulnerable.
mlsforhire
After scanning the ALA online newsletter, I came across their discussion regarding the NYT article. In it was a recap that gives more facts regarding the issue and some great resources!
Go to: http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/10/22/ny-times-book-scanning-and-lots-of-resources/
Let’s here some opinions on this folks.
mlsforhire
Since Google started digitizing books, information profession have had a lot to say regarding online sources, copyrighted works and and deciding which digitization deal is better: Open Content Alliance or Google?
To see the New York Times Monday October 22, 2007 issue go to Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
Kansas librarians what’s your opinion regarding this matter?
23
Oct
07
Spooky Library Trivia
With Halloween spooks peeking around the corner, I though this would be a great time to share your favorite spooky library movie scene. Here’s mine:
Ghostbusters is my number one favorite spooky library scene. The poor librarian getting scared half to death by the floating books and book cards flying through the air (funny now, but a nightmare for the librarians) is great, you can even get look at the final script by going to http://www.ecto-web.org/~spookcentral/gb1_script_transcript.htm .
If you don’t have a favorite movie scene maybe you know other good spooky library stories. MLS for Hire would love to share the scare.
20
Sep
07
Butt Kicking Librarians
Do librarians really kick butt?
