This interesting article in the Boston Herald last Sunday talks about how many short films of music performances from the past are turning up on YouTube :
Magical portal to a musical past by Jenna Wolf
Here’s a quote from the article:
“It’s sort of a historical portal,” said professor Victor Coelho, chairman of the Musicology Department at Boston University, who is using clips in his lectures. “It’s like a cultural e-Bay. A real revolution is taking place. Now we can be transported in time.”
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March 27th, 2007 | Posted in YouTube
Time.Comix did an interesting article on the silver anniversary of graphic novels in 2003. Unfortunately for us, the writer highlights the late recognition by librarians of this art/literary form right in the first sentence :
“‘You mean like pornographic?’ queried the startled librarian when I asked for help researching articles about graphic novels. She had never heard the term for book-length comics used before.”
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March 17th, 2007 | Posted in Graphic Novels
The Butler University Libraries page has an interesting feature I haven’t seen on other library websites — they have photographs of their librarians with the words ASK A LIBRARIAN on them. As you move around their site, you see these on nearly every page, different librarians each time. Click on the picture, and you go to the Ask a Librarian page with contact information for chat, e-mail and phone.
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March 10th, 2007 | Posted in Websites
