Music Online

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Discover Music Online’s free classical music downloads and free world music downloads!

New content has been added to three of the collections in Music Online: Listening — American Song; Jazz Music Library; and Contemporary World Music.

HIGHLIGHTS OF NEW CONTENT
American Song
212 albums (4,467 tracks) from Archeophone Records, Appleseed Records, Mark Custom, Rebel, Sun, and Tompkins Square Records. Content includes new releases of bluegrass, boogie-woogie, country, traditional gospel, marching band music, and more.

New albums include:
*Fly Down Little Bird (Pete and Peggy Seeger)
*Reagan of Illinois: A Symphony to Celebrate the Centennial of President Ronald Reagan’s Birth
*Let the Light Shine Down: A Gospel Tribute to Bill Monroe
*Out on the Open West (Frank Fairfield)
*Let’s Make a Better World! Live in Leipzig (James Booker)

Jazz Music Library
67 albums (1,390 tracks) from Mark Custom, Jazzology, Haenssler, Mode/Avant, GHB Records, and Progressive. Content includes new releases of swing, avant-garde jazz, bebop, New Orleans jazz, vocal jazz, big band, and west coast jazz from performers such as Art Pepper, Frank Sinatra, Jabbo Smith, Respect Sextet, Red Norvo Combo, Cullen Offer Quartet, and more.

New albums include:
*QuaDRUMvirate
*Passport to Brooklyn
*Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin’ Shoes
*Les Nuages En France
*Art Pepper: Renascence

Contemporary World Music
247 albums (3,908 tracks) from ARC Music, Buda Musique, Celestial Harmonies, Merusa Records, PAN Records, Playasound, Six Degrees Records, World Circuit and more. New material includes artists and ensembles such as the Buena Vista Social Club, Ali Farka Touré, Afro-Cuban All Stars, Toumani Diabate, Benga Beat, Dastan Ensemble, Didier Petit, The Wonder Rabbis, Merusa All Stars, and more.

New albums include:
*Rebel Music from Venezuela
*Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo
*Boulevard de L’independence
*Ali and Toumani
*Music of the Honey Gatherers

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Dance in Video

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Audrey Powers

11 new titles were added to Dance in Video bringing the content count to 644 works/610 hours . See details regarding all of the new titles here — http://daiv.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

*Concerto, from Three Ballets by Kenneth Macmillan, The Royal Ballet *Elite Syncopations, from Three Ballets by Kenneth Macmillan, The Royal Ballet *The Judas Tree, from Three Ballets by Kenneth Macmillan, Carlos Acosta, Leanne Benjamin, Edward Watson, Bennet Gartside, The Royal Ballet

*Dance Excerpts, from The Spirit of Dance: Irish Step Dancing, Norah Dale Allen, Maureen Haley, Maureen Britell, Erin Connolly *Irish Step Dancing (Interview), Norah Dale Allen, Maureen Haley, Maureen Britell, Erin Connolly *Dance On with Billie Mahoney: Marcia McFee, (Interview) *Dance On with Billie Mahoney: Charles ‘Honi’ Coles (Interview) *Gil Roman and the Béjart Ballet Lausanne: Of Heart and Courage (Documentary) *Samba on Your Feet (Documentary) *Still Life at the Penguin Cafe, Simon Jeffes, David Bintley, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra *The Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Documentary with Simon Jeffes

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Filmakers Library Online

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Audrey Powers

The total number of titles in Filmakers Library Online is now 1,017 (approximately 803 hours). You can see all of the new titles here:
http://flon.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew.

Highlights from the newly added content:
Westbeth Home of the Arts
This documentary takes a lively look at Westbeth, the first and largest federally funded artists’ colony in the United States, which became home to a generation of artists grateful for cheap rent and a place to live and work.
Awards: Manhattan Film Festival (official selection); New Filmmakers New York (official selection); Riverside International Film Festival

When the Day Comes: Women as Caregivers

Women, traditionally, are expected to cope with family responsibilities and to provide care without financial rewards. While their efforts reduce society’s longterm care costs, the caregivers go largely unnoticed and get little help from others. In this documentary we hear from four women who have provided continuous care for a loved one.
Awards: National Council on Aging, 1993; National Women’s Studies Association, 1993; Bronze Apple, National Educational Film & Video Association, 1993; National Council on Family Relations, 1991 & International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, 1991

Modus Operandi: The German Occupation of Belgium From 1942 to 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 survived. This documentary raises and systematically answers the question: how did just a handful of Nazis— with the help, voluntary or unwitting— of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? The film covers the sequence of events and different phases that led to the Final Solution.

Other titles include:
*Bird Flu Wars, David Carr-Brown
*The Minutemen: Vigilantes at The Border, Corey Wascinski, Julia Myron *Rudy PerezCountdown: Reflections on a Life in Dance, Rachel Mira Perez *Soul & Science: The Power of the Mind, Thomas Breinholt *Toward Intimacy: Women With Disabilities, Debbie McGee *Where We Live: Iraqi Exiles in America, Fady Hadid

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ARTstor

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Collection News

Photographs of the Hagia Sophia by A. Cemal Ekin
ARTstor and A. Cemal Ekin are sharing nearly 50 images of the dome of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey in the ARTstor Digital Library    Learn more

Tips & Tools

More than 5,000 new images from SAHARA
More than 16,000 images of architecture, landscape design, and the built environment from the Society of Architectural Historians’ SAHARA project are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.     Learn more

Did you know? How to sort thumbnails on a multi-page image group
So you’ve created a great image group and you want to sort the thumbnails, but there are so many images that they are broken up into more than one page. What to do? Learn how easy it is to change the numbers of images per page and to change the display options so you can see the entire image group at once.
Learn more

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Changes to the Tampa Library

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Upcoming changes to the facilities and services of the Tampa Library will begin May 4 and continue to August 24, 2012.  Some of the changes that will take place include relocating the Reference Desk to the Circulation Desk which will become the Library Services Desk and renovation of the 2nd floor, May 4 – August 24.

Upcoming changes to library services and locations of collections are listed below:

Changes to Services:
The Reference and Circulation desks will be combined to create a Library Services Desk staffed by librarians, staff, and students.  All library assistance will be provided at the Library Services Desk (May 7)
A new Math Lab and Learning Commons will be located on 2nd floor (Sept. 24)
The book scanner will be located in the basement

Changes to the locations of collections:
Print newspapers will be located on the 1st floor
Reference collection will be located on the 4th floor
Media will be located on the 6th floor
Print journals and microforms will be located in the basement
Reference Annex collection and US/Florida government documents to be located in the basement

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Center for Research Libraries

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Audrey Powers

See the April 2012 newsletter, CRL Connect, from the Center for Research Libraries.

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Classical Music in Video

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Alexander Street Press is offering Open Access for the entire month of April to Classical Music in Video.

You are invited to discover for yourself all the collection has to offer. No matter when in April you register, you can search, browse, and explore the entire collection for thirty days.

Access the collection here

Right now, Classical Music in Video includes 600 videos, totaling more than 300 hours of performance and teaching, and is growing to more than 1,500 performances and 1,000 hours of viewing. All forms of classical music are covered, including performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world. Coverage of musical time periods spans Medieval to the 21st century, and performances cover historical recordings from the 1950s up to the most current offerings today.

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National Gallery of Art

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Audrey Powers

NGA Images, a new online resource that launched March 16, is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 20,000 open access digital images—up to 3,000 pixels each—are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.

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Tampa Library Creates New “ONE DESK” Service Point

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Audrey Powers

What

  • Reference services will be delivered from one service point, the Library Services Desk
  • Librarians and staff will answer all questions at this service point
  • A new Reference Consultation Office will open behind the desk

Why

  • To stop the “USF Shuffle” at the Tampa Library
  • Quickly assess your needs at one service desk
  • Provide quality reference service and research help more efficiently and effectively

When

  • May 7, 2012

Where

  • The Library Services Desk at the entrance to the Tampa Library (formerly the Circulation Desk)

    Same expert reference service just a few feet away

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    ARTstor celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month and National Poetry Month

    Posted on April 7, 2012 by Audrey Powers

    Happy Jazz Appreciation Month!
    “What we play is life.” – Louis Armstrong
    April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and the Digital Library offers many resources to help you celebrate. Find out about the plethora of iconic images of jazz greats from Magnum

    Jazz and ARTstor

    Photos, jazz-related works from artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Jean Dubuffet, musical instruments from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and more music history content in ARTstor.
    Learn more

    April is Poetry Month
    Poetry and art are intertwined—two art forms in constant dialogue, creating and recreating each other. Check out our list of links to some of our favorite poems from Catullus to Jason Koo, and enjoy a selection of images of poets from the 8th century to the 19th century.
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    ARTstor Travel Awards 2012
    There’s still plenty of time to submit an entry for the ARTstor Travel Awards—the deadline is April 16, 2012! Five winners will receive $1,500 each in support of educational and scholarly activities. The contest is open to graduate students, faculty, scholars, curators, educators, and librarians in any discipline. To apply, submit one or more ARTstor image groups and a brief essay that creatively and compellingly demonstrates how the image group(s) is useful for teaching, research, or scholarship. The five winning submissions will be featured in the Digital Library. More details and the entry form can be found at artstor.org/travelawards.
    Need some inspiration? Check out last year’s winners.

    Now available: Images of paintings and works on paper by Jon Schueler
    ARTstor and the estate of Jon Schueler have collaborated to share more than 300 images of works by the painter in the Digital Library.
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    More than 350 additional community murals from Timothy Drescher are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.
    An additional 353 images of contemporary murals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. from the Community Murals Collection (Timothy Drescher) are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.
    Learn more

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