News, Updates, and Information of Interest from Samford University Library
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TURNS 50, AND "PARTIES ARE PLANNED" (New York Times)
To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, a variety of communities all over the country--including and especially in Monroeville, Alabama--are planning re-enactments, parties, movie screenings, readings and scholarly discussions. Read all about it here.
Monday, May 24, 2010
STUDS TERKEL ARCHIVES COMING ONLINE
"If someone was an important figure in American culture in the 20th century, chances are he or she was interviewed by Studs Terkel.
Conversations with Rosa Parks, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King Jr. and Louis Armstrong are among the nearly 6,000 hours of interviews conducted by Mr. Terkel, the colorful Chicago author and oral historian, for WFMT radio from 1952 to 1997.
Under a deal signed Monday between the Chicago History Museum and the Library of Congress, tapes of those interviews will be digitally preserved and given new life online.
Remembered by Chicagoans for his political activism and distinctive red checkered shirts, Mr. Terkel, who died in 2008 at 96, donated the tapes to the museum in 1997.
The Library of Congress will digitize the Studs Terkel Oral History Archive, according to the agreement, while the museum will retain ownership of the roughly 5,500 interviews in the archive and the copyrights to the content."
Click here to read the full article from the New York Times.
(Source: New York Times May 13, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14cncpulse.html?emc=eta1)
Conversations with Rosa Parks, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King Jr. and Louis Armstrong are among the nearly 6,000 hours of interviews conducted by Mr. Terkel, the colorful Chicago author and oral historian, for WFMT radio from 1952 to 1997.
Under a deal signed Monday between the Chicago History Museum and the Library of Congress, tapes of those interviews will be digitally preserved and given new life online.
Remembered by Chicagoans for his political activism and distinctive red checkered shirts, Mr. Terkel, who died in 2008 at 96, donated the tapes to the museum in 1997.
The Library of Congress will digitize the Studs Terkel Oral History Archive, according to the agreement, while the museum will retain ownership of the roughly 5,500 interviews in the archive and the copyrights to the content."
Click here to read the full article from the New York Times.
(Source: New York Times May 13, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14cncpulse.html?emc=eta1)
Friday, May 21, 2010
ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS NEEDED MORE THAN EVER
"For all the concern expressed about the imminent demise of the college library, librarians are needed more than ever:" http://chronicle.com/article/Marian-the-Cybrarian/65570/
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY/JCLC FINE FREE FRIDAY!
Attention Birmingham Public Library/JCLC Users: Fine Free Friday! On Friday, May 21, 2010, the Birmingham Public Library and the public libraries of Adamsville, Bessemer, Botanical Gardens, Gardendale, Homewood, Hueytown, Irondale, Leeds, Pleasant Grove, Trussville, Vestavia Hills, & Warrior will forgive fines. Some conditions apply. To learn more, visit http://bplolinenews.blogspot.com/2010/04/fine-free-friday-may-21-2010.html.
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