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Archive for January, 2009

Finding Music Recommendations

Posted in uncategorized with tags , , , , , on January 27, 2009 by

If you’re a bit confused about how and why you get recommendations for particular tunes on any given social networking site, check out this post by the folks over at ReadWriteWeb for an overview of four common approaches that these services use.

Thanks to MP3s and the Internet, we now have millions of songs readily available to us with the click of a button, but, paradoxically, this has often made it even harder to discover new music to listen to. Every online music store and every social network that focuses on online music, however, now features some kind of music recommendation system, and some services like Pandora or Slacker Radio are indeed nothing else but highly sophisticated music discovery engines.

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Spring Reserves – Update for Teaching Faculty

Posted in DRAM, Naxos, news, online services on January 27, 2009 by

While our student and circulation supervisor position is vacant, please submit music reserve requests to Susannah Cleveland (clevels@bgsu.edu or 2-9929).  As soon as we get this position filled, we’ll update you all on contact information for various services, including reserves.  In the meantime, please be patient with us as we try to pick up the slack.

For a refresher on reserves, please see:
http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page38767.html

Also, when planning your listening lists, don’t forget that we have two streaming audio databases, Naxos Music Library and DRAM (see http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/music/page37943.html for more information on these).  We can create playlists in Naxos, so that you can link to the playlist from Blackboard and not have to add and update each link for each piece each semester.  Get in touch with Susannah if you are interested in exploring this feature or if you would like more information about either database.

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