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Free Online Courses from Great Universities is a collection of lecture podcasts organized by topic; organized by Open Culture.

found via Open Access News

I wasn’t going to post this because you need an account to access the article, but the Chronicle of Higher Education has an article titled “Young Librarians, Talkin’ ‘Bout Their Generation” which is quite an interesting read.  I recommend you track it down.

What gets this posted, however, is that one of the librarians, Jessamyn West, is featured on a five-minute podcast, available to all.  It is an interesting listen, if you will.

link found on librariansrock

A couple music-related web sites of interest:

• LyricWiki is run using MediaWiki, the same software that runs Wikipedia. They describe themselves as “a free site which is a source where anyone can go to get reliable lyrics for any song from any artist without being hammered by invasive ads.” The site is in need of content for the less-mainstream musicians, but you can help out (which is what wikis are for).
• Second Hand Songs is a site devoted to song covers (when a musician or band does a song by another musician or band). If you want to find out who did the original version of Louie, Louie, or scan the variety of covers for the Beatles’ Yesterday, this is definitely the site you want.

LyricWiki found via ResourceShelf

Sophie is a brand new piece of software from The Institute for the Future of the Book (blog) that may signal one possible direction for written media.  When finished (it is Alpha software at the moment, meaning that you should use it only to try it out), this software should allow the user to integrate text, hypertext, audio, video, and images seamlessly into one experience.

Imagine a how-to manual that could play a demonstration video for any part of a project you wanted to create.  How about a mystery story that had clues located in pictures, audio, and video, as well as within the text?  Now think about what could be done to create an entirely new media experience using these elements.  There are a lot of possibilities.

from Free Range Librarian

NetLibrary has launched what it is calling eAudiobook Subject Sets, which are bundles of downloadable audio books grouped by subject, so that libraries can tailor their purchases to their particular needs.

from ResourceShelf

Podiobooks.com offers quite a few free, downloadable audiobooks, most with cc licenses.

Add this to your list of free audiobook sites.

from MetaFilter

LoutLit.org is a site with a collection of downloadable, CreativeCommons licensed audiobooks from the Gutenberg Project.

Don’t forget these other sites as well!

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The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University has a couple of pages containing downloadable classical music.

Peabody Symphony Orchestra; Peabody Concert Orchestra.

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