American Song – history database

The SLC Music Library welcomes you to another streaming audio database – American Song.

American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America’s past. The database includes songs by and about:

• American Indians
• Miners
• Immigrants
• Slaves
• Children
• Pioneers
• and Cowboys

Included in the database are the songs of:

• Civil Rights
• Political campaigns
• Prohibition
• The Revolutionary War
• The Civil War
• Anti-war protests and more.

Content from African American Music is now a part of American Song, including 17,000 tracks from the original interface, plus 18,000 newly released tracks.

Here is the link: http://remote.slc.edu/login?url=http://amso.alexanderstreet.com/

Smithsonian Global Sound

Have you checked out Smithsonian Global Sound?

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (http://www.folkways.si.edu/) label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.

It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Here is the link: http://remote.slc.edu/login?url=http://slc2.classical.com/

Online Classical database – classical.com

Looking for classical music? Here is a database for your listening pleasure!

Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource of classical recordings. The music moves from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. There are multiple versions of works to enable comparative. Online reference works such as Grove’s will link to Classical Music Library.

Here is the link: http://remote.slc.edu/login?url=http://slc.classical.com/

Online Jazz database – alexanderstreet.com

Did you know that Sarah Lawrence now subscribes to an online Jazz database?

The most comprehensive jazz listening collection available online, Jazz Music Library will include thousands of tracks performed by extraordinary artists including:

• Benny Carter
• Bill Evans
• Cannonball Adderley
• Charlie Byrd
• Charlie Parker
• Count Basie
• Dave Brubeck
• Dizzie Gillespie
• Ella Fitzgerald
• John Coltrane
• Miles Davis
• Sarah Vaughan
• Thelonious Monk

The collection will also include never-before-heard festival recordings and other unique content.

Access the database here: http://remote.slc.edu/login?url=http://jazz.alexanderstreet.com/

Giant Book Giveaway Fall 2009

GIANT BOOK GIVEAWAY

When? 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Wednesday October 28th

Where? Loading behind the Library

Don’t miss it!

Closing at 8pm on October 17

Please note that the library will close at 8:00 PM Saturday October 17th.

Feedback Welcome

We are always looking for the next great idea and we think you have it!

A Suggestion Box has been installed in the library and now the only thing it needs is your ideas.

Where?

• Look to your right when you walk in. It is mounted on the wall next to the New Books Board.

Workshop – Microsoft Excel

When – Thu, October 8, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

Where – Library E2 Classroom

Description – You’ve heard of it and have been told it will be important outside of SLC. Would you believe it can help you here at SLC? How do you use formulas? What are the tabs about? Learn some spreadsheets basics before you apply for an internship. Hurry!

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Additional workshop information:

Academic Computing Workshop Calendar

Improvements Around the Library

Welcome back to a new academic year! The library wishes a particularly warm welcome to our incoming first-year students. The library’s team of instruction librarians, Carl Reglar, Geoff Danisher, and Carrie Netzer Wajda look forward to meeting the first-year class during our bibliographic instruction classes this fall.

Returning students will be pleased to find several improvements around the library. Firstly, we have new vending machines and furniture in our cafe area on the lower level of the library. Please remember that snacks and covered drinks are permitted in the library, but sandwiches, soups, and other foods should be eaten across the street at the Pub cafe. This is to keep the library clean for all library users.

Secondly, the library now has a suggestion box near the entry gate! We invite you to fill out a suggestion card if you have ideas on how to improve the library. Results will be posted next to the box throughout the semester.

Just be aware that suggestions for titles for the library’s collection should be submitted online using the Suggest an Item for Purchase form under “Quick Links” on the library’s home page, or by following the link below. We want to hear from you, so please let us know if you have found the perfect title for the library’s collection!
http://pages.slc.edu/~library/dbforms/purchase/

While you’re visiting the suggestion box, take a moment to check the collage of book jackets from titles we have recently purchased for the collection. We invite you to check out these or any titles in the library collection. Remember that students can keep the book for the entire semester, unless the book is recalled.

Welcome to the fall semester!

Offsite Database Access is Back!

Good news! Most of the EZProxy issues have been resolved, which means that off-site access and access to databases through catalog records is restored.

There’s still a handful of records that we will need to update manually (about 600 out of 18,000+, so it really is a small percentage), so if you come across a link that still isn’t working, please let us know by emailing us at reference [at] slc [dot] edu. Rest assured that we’re working hard to fix the remaining links.

Enjoy a beautiful weekend!