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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Audio
Inspirational Library-related StoryCorps
This morning I heard one of the most inspirational library-related stories I have encountered. It was a StoryCorps segment on NPR’s Morning Edition radio program, and I feel that everyone who works in libraries should listen to it, if only … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Ethics, History, Libraries
Tagged Ethics, Human Interest, librarian, Morning Edition, NPR, NPR's Morning Edition, StoryCorp
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BBC Languages
BBC Languages is fantastic web resource provided by the British Broadcasting Corporation, and is filled with audio language resources. These include 12-week beginning lessons, a Quick Fix section containing “essential phrases”, and teacher’s resources. found via Librarian in Black
Listening to Libology
Libology is now available in an audio version. This is made possible through a service called Odiogo, which works with content providers to enable a streamlined means of creating downloadable audio files of web sites. What this means for readers … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Blogs, Podcast
Tagged Audio, Catalogablog, Odiogo, Podcast, Stephen Hawking
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Amazon and Contracts
Authors Guild: Contracts Forced Amazon to Flip on Kindle is an article on CNet.com in which the Authors Guild asserts that Amazon turned off the Kindle’s Text-to-speech function (unless authorized by a book’s publisher) due to contractual obligations, not pressure … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Licensing, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, Author's Guild, Contracts Authors Guild, Kindle, spokesperson, text-to-speech
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Confusing Assistance with Performance
Amazon.com has given in to the Publisher’s Guild on the issue of text-to-speech capabilities in the Kindle 2. In their press release, Amazon states up front that “Kindle 2’s experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Licensing, News, OCLC, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, BookFinder.com Journal, Copyright, copyright law, Fair Use, Google, Google Inc., OCLC, public domain, text-to-speech, writer
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Voice of the Kindle
The impending release of the Kindle 2 wireless reading device has been all over the news this week, accompanied by many reviews and commentaries. One response to a new feature strikes me as extreme, however: “Some publishers and agents expressed … Continue reading
Free Online Courses from Great Universities
Free Online Courses from Great Universities is a collection of lecture podcasts organized by topic; organized by Open Culture. found via Open Access News
Posted in Audio, Education, Lecture, Podcast
Tagged Online Courses
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Young Librarians
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Libraries
Tagged Jessamyn West, the Chronicle of Higher Education;
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Musical Sites
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Online Databases, Search
Tagged artist, musician, the Beatles
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Sophie
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Institute for the Future of the Book, Sophie
Sophie, Sophie
Sophie, written media
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eAudiobook Subject Sets
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
Posted in Audio, Books, Libraries, Online Services
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More Free Audio Books
Podiobooks.com offers quite a few free, downloadable audiobooks, most with cc licenses. Add this to your list of free audiobook sites. from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Libraries, Online Services
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LoudLit.org
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! from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Libraries, Online Services
Tagged CreativeCommons
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Classical Music Downloads
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University has a couple of pages containing downloadable classical music. Peabody Symphony Orchestra; Peabody Concert Orchestra. from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio
Tagged Peabody Concert Orchestra, Peabody Institute, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the Johns Hopkins University
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