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200+ Folk Songs for download/play at Roger McGuinn’s Folk Den

Roger McGuinn's Folk Den

It seems like only yesterday that we were downloading the cowboy song “Old Paint” from Roger McGuinn’s new (then) Folk Den project. But that was November 1st, 1995!

The Folk Den has just passed the 200 free songs for download/play mark with the drinking song from Olde England, circa 1594, “When Jones’ Ale Was New” on June 1, 2012.

McGuinn, founder of the Byrds and a major player on Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, personally curates the Folk Den and performs, records and distributes a new/old song each month.

Explore and enjoy American musical roots with Roger at The Folk Den.

You can subscribe to the Folk Den RSS feed and receive a new song in the RSS reader of your choice each month, here.

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Information Professional Conference 2050

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The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrates 80th anniversary this year. This milestone will be marked in part by the Information Professional Conference 2050 (IP 2050).

IP 2050 will bring together professionals, educators employers, and policy makers in information and library science to at the future of these fields.

The event takes place on June 5, 2012  from 9:00am  to  4:30pm at the William and Ida Friday Center

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Using Flight Gear to Test Debris Trackers

An article posted last week on i-programmer suggests that the flight simulator Flight Gear, hosted here at ibiblio, could be used to test drone flights aimed at spotting ocean debris. If deemed successful, the drones could be used to search for floating detritus and direct clean-up ships to the appropriate areas.

Flotsam and jetsam  is no joke, as evidenced by news of the first appearances of 1.5 million tons Japanese Tsunami debris that could wash ashore along the Canadian and American coastlines in the coming year. You can see the  projected spread of the debris from an article from Our Amazing Planet.com. Unfortunately, it’s arriving sooner than expected.

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