03 June 2009

The High Strung "Welcome to the library tour" documentary

"We're going to blow the roof off of libraries."


More about this Detroit band at thehighstrung.com, including mp3s and tour dates. Locally to michigan they are playing 

Jul 22
Cromaine Library
Hartland, MI

Jul 23
Milford Public Library
Milford, MI
thanks dcb for the heads up.

Posted at 12:42 AM in Music | | Comments (0)

12 July 2006

Coverflow - browse through your album art

CoverflowCoverflow is a shiny piece of eye candy for Mac OS X iTunes listeners. It gives you a nice simple and attractive way to flip through your album covers one at a time and then play what you see. See a review on Cool Hunting.

If anyone wants to do a mashup, here's a library idea - take a good easy to parse catalog interface like John Blyberg's AADL REST interface and hook it up to something like this so that you can flip through book covers just the same way. Or even do cover art for new books with a flip-interface through the RSS interface from Steal This Library, or your own personal collection from LibraryThing.

Posted at 11:41 PM in Ann Arbor, Beyond big vendors, Library 2.0, Library mashups, Music | | Comments (1)

03 April 2006

The High Strung summer library tour

Chela Weber writes:

Hi Edward-
I'm an MLIS student at Wayne State and have just started reading your blog. While you seem more focused on tech, I thought you still might be interested in this. The rock band The High Strung will play the main branch of Detroit Public Library this Wednesday as part of their summer library tour. I think it's very library 2.0, in a low-tech manifestation.
Following are a few links for more info:

http://www.lib.wayne.edu/geninfo/news/news.php?id_look=130

http://www.thehighstrung.com/library.html

Great reading your blog, thanks!

Chela

Posted at 04:03 PM in Music | | Comments (1)

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