The Lucky Librarian

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Audrey Powers

I am the luckiest librarian here.  Really, I am.  I get to learn, test and play with the most amazing databases; ARTstor, Music Online, Dance in Video, Theatre in Video, Avery Index.  Just to name a few.

If you want me to show you how to use particular databases and the awesome functionality build into them, just give me a call.  Come over and have a Starbuck’s and see me.  We can talk.  Or I can bring a Starbuck’s to you.

More about the Lucky Librarian later…

Contact Info:
Audrey Powers
Room 112A
974-9001
apowers@usf.edu

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Dance in Video

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Dance in Video has been updated with 62 new works (50 hours) of performances, documentaries, and interviews from the George Balanchine Foundation, Dance Through Time, Ballet Dynamics, DancePulp, Charles Dennis Productions and more.

New material includes:

*Documentaries featuring Rudy Perez, Doris Humphrey, Chelyabinsk Contemporary Dance Theatre, Donald McKayle, Carlotta Ikeda and Maurice Béjart

*New interviews with Matthew Bourne, Maria Kowroski, Raphael Coumes-Marquet, Lucia Lacarra, Sascha Radetsky, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Kathryn Bennetts, Ellen Bar, Heather Lang, Yumiko Takeshima and Eduardo Vilaro

*Performances featuring Nala Najon, Kansas City Ballet, The Joe Goode Performance Group and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company

You will also see more coaching sessions from the George Balanchine Foundation, including:

*Merrill Ashley coaching principal roles from Ballo Della Regina *Yvonne Mounsey coaching the Siren’s solo and the Pas de Deux from Prodigal Son *Mimi Paul coaching the Sicilienne variation and the Nocturne (“walking”) Pas de Deux from EMERALDS from JEWELS *Violette Verdy and Conrad Ludlow coaching the Pas de Deux from Act II Divertissement from A Midsummer Night’s Dream *Nancy Mann recreating Valse Chromatique from Reminiscence *Frederic Franklin and Stanley Zompakos recreating excerpts from Mozartiana

You can see a list of all the new content here: http://daiv.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

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Avery Library Drawings & Archives Department

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Avery Library Drawings & Archives Department has a new blog!
Please check out:
https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/tafelarchive/

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation NOW AVAILALBLE

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Audrey Powers

ARTstor and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation have released more than 750 images of major artworks from the permanent collection in the Digital Library. The images document the Guggenheim Museum’s superb holdings in modern and contemporary art by such significant artists as Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Willem de Kooning, Paul Klee, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claes Oldenburg, Cindy Sherman, and Vincent van Gogh, among many others.

This is the first release of a projected 7,000 images of art, exhibition installation views, and architecture from the Foundation. Future releases will include 5,000 installation views spanning from the 1990s to the present from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, more than 1,000 installations views from the museums in Bilbao and Venice, and 200 historical and contemporary photographs documenting the architecture of these three museum buildings.
Learn more

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Classical Music Library

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Audrey Powers

Alexander Street Press just released 1,811 albums (7,767 tracks) from a wide variety of labels, including material from Bel Canto Society; Bridge; Cantolopera; Gimell; Haenssler Classic; Lyrichord; Mark Custom; Mode Records; New Albion; North/South; and Wirripang.

New artists and ensembles include: The Tallis Scholars; Stables Ensemble; Beniamino Gigli; Auer String Quartet; Virginia Wind Symphony; Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic; The Wellesley Chamber Singers; Amadeus Guitar Duo; Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra of Leipzig.

Sample new albums:
*On the Wire: Australian Music for Flute Ensemble
*Beniamino Gigli: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci
*Seven Improvisations: Music for Solo Percussion
*Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers *Choral Music of the Great Spanish Masters
*Grieg: Orchestral Works/Piano Concerto
*Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 15

You can see a list of all new content here: http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew

The Music Online package now contains 783,199 tracks of music, 101,311 pages of text references, 25,634 scores, and 1,119 hours of video.

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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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