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Death of High Fidelity

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

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:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/73399

Top 10 reasons IT won’t support the iPhone

Wondering why your corporate Information Technology department won’t buy you an Apple (AAPL) iPhone or support the one you bought yourself? Here’s your answer. Go to

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/12/13/top-10-reasons-it-wont-support-the-iphone/

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. 

Being Thankful for the Freedom of Information

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.

Go to    http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2007-11-07-toy-recall-chemicals_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

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

Buttkicking librarians in the movies

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

Recapping the NYT digitization article

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