Celebrate Hip-Hop Appreciation Week

Posted onMay 20, 2009 
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We’re currently in the midst of the fourth annual Hip-Hop Appreciation Week – May 14 – May 21.  See the full story at mtv.com.

We have lots of hip-hop materials here in the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archves to help you celebrate.  To find them, do a subject search in the BGSU’s online catalog for the terms, “Rap (Music).”  After you get the results of this search, click on the “Limit & Sort Search” button to limit to books, recordings, periodicals, etc.  Also, be sure to checkout our Rap & Hip Hop research guide for some places to get started in your research.

Oklahoma chooses official rock song

Posted onMay 1, 2009 
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Oklahoma recently joined Ohio in the ranks of states with official rock songs (ours is “Hang on Sloopy”) by selecting “Do You Realize??” by OK natives, the Flaming Lips.  Hear the story at NPR.

Follow us on Facebook

Posted onApril 30, 2009 
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BGSU has created a Facebook app that will allow you to follow this and other BGSU blogs through Facebook.

Install the app to get started:  http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=41501853292

Requiem for a box

Posted onApril 23, 2009 
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Yesterday, NPR ran a story on the rise and fall of the boom box and the cultural implications of it.  Check out their site for great pictures and a link to the audio.

Catch up on music tech gadgets

Posted onApril 16, 2009 
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Follow stories on new gadgets this week on Gizmodo’s series, Listening Test:

http://gizmodo.com/tag/listening-test/

Another way to keep up with new materials

Posted onMarch 7, 2009 
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New Books and Scores in the Music Library

Many of our regular users know to check the new acquisitions shelf next to the elevator when you visit the ML/SRA to see what’s just come in, but did you know we have other ways to help you keep track of new stuff (including closed-stacks materials that never make it to the shelves by the elevator!)?

In the online catalog, click on the New Books link (just underneath the pictures at the top) and scroll down to the links under “Music Library Feeds” to see lists of recent acquisitions.  Or, if you’d rather have this information delivered to your favorite RSS feed reader, scroll down on that same page to the section entitled, “Library Material Feeds XML links,” and subscribe to any or all of the music library feeds (scores, recordings, or Sound Recordings Archives acquisitions).  This will keep you up to date on what has been added to the collection in the last three months.

Looking for research help?

Posted onMarch 4, 2009 
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Don’t forget that we have a collection of research guides to help you get oriented and get started on your library research on a wide variety of subjects.  Topics range from music censorship to low brass to world music.  We’ve been working on updating and migrating these guides, so check back often to see what has changed.

Morgan Rich returns to the ML/SRA!

Posted onFebruary 13, 2009 
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This coming Monday, February 16, will mark the return of Morgan Rich to the ML/SRA as the Student and Circulation Supervisor.  She  will be the go-to person for all circulation and reserves matters.

We were very lucky to get Morgan for this position.  She came to us as a student assistant two and a half years ago, having worked in different capacities in the library at Indiana State University during her undergraduate studies in Music History.  At BGSU, she worked for us here in the ML/SRA as a Graduate Supervisor while attaining her M.M. in Musicology, during which time she has become quite familiar with our collections (for the record, she was one of the masterminds behind the vast and successful shift of the materials in the open stacks last summer!).  She brings a brilliant combination of musical knowledge and familiarity with library practices, and we couldn’t be more happy to have her as one of our permanent staff members.

Stream Naxos using Flash instead of Windows Media Player

Posted onFebruary 7, 2009 
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Naxos Music Library has added support for streaming using Adobe’s Flash Player, which should be helpful for our Mac users.  The default is still for Windows Media Player, but the option to set Flash as your default should come soon.  Make the selection of players after you select tracks and click on “Play.”

Playlists are still limited to WMP, but Flash support for those should be coming soon.

Finding Music Recommendations

Posted onJanuary 27, 2009 
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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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