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May 07, 2009
ARChive of Contemporary Music Featured in NY Times
Always good to share good news about our ASB sites!
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ARC featured TODAY In the NY Region section of the NY Times, 5/7/09
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/sampling-a-vast-archive-of-musi/#more-30275
David Gonzales, the author, (who is also donating his 400 Flamenco record collection to ARC) said that if it gets e-mailed a lot, or their are a lot of comments, that keeps the story alive, So what are you waiting for?
Thanks
B.
The ARChive of Contemporary Music is a not-for-profit archive, music library and research center located in New York City. The ARChive collects preserves and provides information on the popular music of all cultures throughout the world. Since 1985 our holdings have grown to two million sound recordings, making the ARChive the largest popular music collection in the World.
Members of the Board of Advisors are: David Bowie, Jellybean Benitez,
Jonathan Demme, Ellie Greenwich, Jerry Leiber, Youssou N'Dour,
Lou Reed, Keith Richards, Nile Rodgers, Todd Rundgren,
Fred Schneider, Martin Scorsese, Paul Simon,
Mike Stoller and Jerry Wexler
54 White Street
New York City, 10013
tel : 212-226-6967
e : arcmusic@inch.com
http://arcmusic.org
blog: http://arcmusic.wordpress.com
The NYMIA (New York Musicians Index and Archive)
is available for NY based musicians and
music related businesses to join and anyone to search.
We hope it will be useful. Tell your friends.
http://www.nymia.org
Summer RECORD SALE June 13 - 21
Posted by kkowatch at 05:07 PM | Comments (0)
May 05, 2009
2009 ASB Website Complete
I just wanted to share with all our readers that the 2009 ASB website is complete. The fabulous ASB Web team -- Katie McCurdy, Li Li, Mike Harmala, Eunice Shin, and Nik Rozaidi Rashid -- devoted a significant amount of time over the last year to get the public site and the application site up and running for 2009. They wrapped up adding the student comments and pictures last week.
You can view the 2009 ASB site at http://asb.si.umich.edu/2009/index.shtml
Pictures can be viewed on the SI ASB Facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7606715638 or the SI ASB Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/siasb_2009/
Photos can always be added, so if you didn't add you pics earlier, please do so now!
Posted by kkowatch at 11:45 AM | Comments (0)
National Library of Medicine Post-ASB Posting
It’s been over two months since we hosted two University of Michigan iSchool students, Andy Hickner and Chrysta Meadowbrooke. In that time we’ve really been able to use the work that each of them did during the Alternative Spring Break week.
Andy Hickner conducted an analysis of 403 email inquiries made to the NIHSeniorHealth website during the period August 1, 2008 and February 1, 2009 as well as 341 suggestions for new topics on the site. The goal of the analysis was to provide data that could be used to make improvements in the website. We used Andy’s analysis to inform our development of new topics and to prioritize features we’re going to research for future implementation on the NIHSeniorHealth site.
Chrysta Meadowbrooke reviewed appropriations reports from the House and Senate and highlighted language relevant to the National Library of Medicine and Public Access. We intend to examine the relevant language and ensure that we followed up on what Congress was asking us to do. Shortly after Chrysta finished her report, the Omnibus Appropriations Act for FY09 was signed and staff worked to pull out the portions relevant to NLM. The Library’s Deputy Director, Betsy Humphreys, asked that the language from the Committee Reports be pulled as well, and since Chrysta had already completed the work, we were able to meet her request immediately. It was a gratifyingly easy response to the request!
Kathel Dunn, Associate Fellowship Coordinator
Jenny Heiland-Luedtke, Project Leader, SeniorHealth
Jerry Sheehan, Project Leader, Appropriations Language Analysis
National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/training/associate/
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