Hi-Fi Sci-Fi Library
I’m a little late, but just in case you haven’t seen the latest music video sweeping libraryland. Warning! It’s catchy! If you want to sing along the lyrics are here.
Thank you to David Lee King and Michael Porter for the tremendous amount of effort they put into making this awesome library related song and video.
Pandora
As part of our Library Learning 2.1 program I wrote a post about Pandora, it went live to the staff yesterday and they are just loving it. Imagine my surprise when I see a comment from Lucia, a staff member at Pandora. How exciting! She left some great tips along with these comments:
It’s great to hear that librarians are loving Pandora! I myself left a library gig to work at Pandora.
I can see how headphones + pandora may be necessary in a library, at times, since you can’t exactly crank the speaker volume up to “10.”
Francesca: Feel free to tell Jim Scott to send us a CD, and we’ll take a listen. Any time you find we don’t have artists in our collection you think we should have, feel free to email suggest-music at pandora dot com.
What great customer service! They found us, answered some of our concerns, made suggestions and left some great tips!
lib.rario.us?
In my search for a way to catalog my music CDs, DVDs and Games similar to LibraryThing or Goodreads I came across lib.rario.us. I’ve been trying it out and it seems pretty neat. I’ve added a few things to try it out. So far so good, I don’t think it’s as pretty or as functional as the books only sites, but it’s new so it could be.
What I like:
- The “add to lib.rario.us” bookmarklet
- It does more than books! Hurray! Finally a way to add my music CDs, DVDs and video Games.
What I wish were different:
- I’d like to be able see my collection in different modes – just images, sort of like a tag cloud or just a text list.
- I don’t see a way to search for people I know, am I missing something?
Is anyone else using this? How do you like it? Is there something you’re using that you like better?
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