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YouTube - From Haydn to Hip Hop: Music at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
YouTube - From Haydn to Hip Hop: Music at the Carnegie Library of PittsburghThis is a fun -- if a bit long (over 9 minutes) -- ad for the various services of the Music Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. There are a few things that Pittsburghers will recognize that folks from elsewhere might not, from the voice of WQED Radio's Jim ( Read more... ) -
Quick links
I had trouble logging in to my home Internet/e-mail account over the weekend and am just now getting caught up.
Here are a few tidbits from my e-mail and other feeds today:
"What if you ran your bookstore like a library?". What a novel :-) concept! A tiny excerpt:Only there’s a difference. Readers don’t always know what they’re looking for. ( Read more... ) -
A new (to me) blog
WVFILM is a blog about West Virginia culture, especially films and filmmaking, by Steve Fesenmeier, longtime film and research librarian at the West Virginia Library Commission (our state library). I found out about it because Steve posted to LISNews about an interview the Lincoln Standard (from Lincoln County, WV) did an article about him after he ( Read more... ) -
The Pirates and their neighbors
In W.P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, one of the characters (left out of the movie Field of Dreams) was The Oldest Living Cub.
Sunday's Post-Gazette has an article about The Oldest Living Pirate. Actually, now, Dr. Howard Hoffman "Howdy" Groskloss is the oldest living MLB veteran of any team -- and he turns 100 today! He played for the Bucs from ( Read more... ) -
Libraries are human, too, you know
The Peanuts strip being rerun this week (at Snoopy.com or Yahoo!) is about Charlie Brown not being able to find his library book. He's sure something dire is going to happen as a result, and as usual, Lucy is not very comforting. This is today's strip:
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