Tag Archives: music
Story: “Shrinking Music Videos”
Yesterday morning, NPR’s Morning Edition closed with a story about how music videos have changed in the past twenty-five years. Once the audiovisual staple of MTV, music videos have moved to the more ubiquitous channels of the World Wide Web, cell phones, and PDAs. As a result, video directors have had to change their style, [...]
Rock out @ your library
Check out this computer user rocking out to her own private party at the library. It’s making the blog rounds, and I have to admit, it’s awesome, and I wish I had that kind of self-abandon in public places.
My favorite comment on the video comes from LISNews:
… just because you’re amongst all those books, doesn’t [...]
I can haz muxtape?
So if you’ve got a few minutes to kill or just want some background music while you’re working on something else, check out the library riot muxtape. It didn’t end up being quite as riotous as I expected — but it’s a still a pretty sweet mix, if I do say so myself. [...]
Muxtape
I’m a music lover. Like, a huge one. So I was really glad when my friend Mel turned me on to this site called Muxtape. It’s basically selections of playlists that people have compiled and submitted for sharing with the world. I’m not really sure what it’s like from the creator-end, [...]
NIN and ILI for YA
Yeah, I was curious how many abbreviations I could squeeze into that post title.
Anyway, here’s a great idea from Jeff over at Alt Teen Services:
Teaching information literacy skills is an important role for YA librarians. Educating teens about such issues as intellectual property rights, digital rights management (DRM) and the law can often come across [...]