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  • Dec 7, 1941: A day that will live in Infamy…

    To commemorate the anniversary of one of the most dramatic attacks on American soil, we are reposting a description from earlier this year–one of the more fascinating collections ibiblio has to offer:

    The Pearl Harbor History Associates (PHHA) is a non-profit corporation chartered by the Commonwealth of Virginia on July 2, 1985 for the purposes of education, research, and promulgation of historical data.

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    “To honor the memory, to serve the truth, to protect the heritage, we are happy to host some of the best Pearl Harbor sites on the Web”

    This collection of sites is truly a unique, comprehensive, and valuable resource. (more…)

  • Get Bach!!!

    Mutopia wants to get you back to Bach and others, with their massive database of free sheet music available in easy to download pdfs. [Image no longer available]

    In the vein of Project Gutenberg, another popular ibiblio mainstay, Mutopia volunteers have uploaded hundreds of sheet music files from the public domain on to their database. Anyone can contribute, and anyone can access this music.

    Featured artists include masters such as Bach Mozart, and Chopin, as well as more obscure composers such as the 16th century’s  T. Arbeau. The 1698-piece archive is searchable by composer, instrument, and musical category, to make it easy for you to find that piece you’ve always wanted to learn. Don’t remember how it sounds? Entries include a midi file like this Prelude in E minor by Frederick Chopin:

     

    Chopin Prelude in E minor

    Break out your mandolin, your pipe organ, your piano or cello, and get playing!

    Photo: http://erdbeerengel.deviantart.com/

  • Jessamyn West to speak at Wilson Library

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    Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide

    Mark your calendars!

    At the invitation of the Special Libraries Association, Jessamyn West, author, librarian, and community technology instructor, will grace our halls on November 18, 2011 to talk about her work teaching computer skills to novices, and helping small and rural libraries manage the transition to a digital world.

    Much of this work is described in her latest book, Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide. You can find out more about Ms. West at her website, Librarian.net hosted here at ibiblio. She also moderates and maintains a community question and answer resource at ask.metafilter.com, and describes her other goings-on at her website jessamyn.com

    Jessamyn will be speaking a 1pm at the Wilson Library Pleasants room on November 18, 2011.

    We’ll see you there!