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Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: QOTD: Marcus and Morrison

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:45:30 -0700

Greil Marcus finished an article about the reception of his recent book on Van Morrison with this lovely quote:

Not all the stories people tell about Morrison, though, are stories of conflict, confusion, resentment, or regret. "I was talking to my father today," a woman in Portland said. "He asked what I was doing tonight, and I told him to was going to hear someone talk about a book he'd written on Van Morrison. 'Oh, Van Morrison!' he said. 'You know, I used to work with his father on the docks in Belfast. After work he'd take me to his house to listen to his records. I'd never seen anything like it. Hundreds and hundreds of 78s and LPs, jazz, blues, country music, everything. And there'd be the little boy there, dancing around the room, saying play that, Daddy! Play that!'" [Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus]

Off-topic but nice: I will follow up with another post on music in a day or two ...

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Outside-in and inside-out redux

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:31:37 -0700

I have been using this phrase, outside-in and inside-out, to discuss a contrast in information management practices that is becoming more important. Here is how I spoke about it a little while ago in these pages:

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: More on VuFind

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:17:38 -0700

I wrote an entry on yufind the other day, noting its use of xISBN to cluster editions in results. yufind is an implementation of VuFind. Here is another example of the clustering: Villanova.

Peter Scott's Library Blog: vBookz - ebook Reader on iPad

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:40:20 -0700

"vBookZ is intuitive, easy to use, and offers to the iPad users a whole new reading experience. Acapela speech synthesis comes in to turn the written content into pleasant speech, without ever having to watch the screen. vBookz is NOT 'books on tape': it is a live text-to-speech generator with no need for conversion nor stored books files. It is a new way to enjoy reading: eyes-free reading while on the move, driving or just relaxing, assisted reading for the sight impaired or audio feedback for children or those learning to read in a foreign language"

Peter Scott's Library Blog: Bletchley Park files to go online (UK)

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:17:53 -0700

More than a million Second World War documents are to be made available to the public for the first time.

Tom Roper's Blog: Derby Day

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:20:04 -0700

On a gorgeous Derby Day, I commend to you Henry Cecil's Bullet Train. My selections in full, all at Epsom: 140: Dr Zhivago 240: Reggane 315: Oldjoesaid 400: Bullet Train Tom Roper

Tom Roper's Blog: On set theory

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:20:04 -0700

I still follow the discussions on the health librarians' Jiscmail list lis-medical. I do this largely for nostalgic reasons, though I would not rule out a return to health librarianship at some point in the future, despite the fact that...

Peter Scott's Library Blog: Biblioscape Librarian Edition v8.05

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:15:19 -0700

"Biblioscape is designed to help researchers collect and manage bibliographic data,take notes while doing research,and generate citations and bibliographies for publication.

Peter Scott's Library Blog: Mental health registers shed light on Victorian patients (UK)

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:02:47 -0700

A series of mental health registers reveal the stark reality of how the mentally ill were treated in Yorkshire over 130 years ago.

Peter Scott's Library Blog: The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship - from CLIR

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:41:13 -0700

The Idea of Order explores the transition from an analog to a digital environment for knowledge access, preservation, and reconstitution, and the implications of this transition for managing research collections.