Old Time Ensemble @ UNCG

In this podcast we chat with members of the Old Time Ensemble, a traditional American music group consisting of students and faculty at UNCG who will be preforming (for FREE) Saturday April 18 5:30pm at the School of Music Organ Hall and Tuesday April 21 at 5pm at Tate Street Coffee House, Greensboro.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Beth Filar Williams, Sarah Dorsey (sarah_dorsey@uncg.edu ), & J. Revell Carr (jrcarr2@uncg.edu)

Time: 8:57 |Size: 8.2 MB | Download .mp3 | Transcript

All music by Old Time Ensemble: "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" - Ensemble; "Cindy" - Ensemble, with Revell Carr, vocal; " Sweet Betsy From Pike" - Sarah Dorsey, cello and lead vocal, D. Travis Clem, mandolin; Gavin Douglas, penny whistle; Nicole Peregine, viola; "Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy" - Nicole Peregine, viola and lead vocal; D. Travis Clem, mandolin; Christen Blanton, fiddle; Mark Dillon, banjo; Revell Carr, hambone; Gavin Douglas, hand claps; "Sail Away, Ladies" - Ensemble, with Travis Clem, lead vocal

Links:

• School of Music
• Music Library
  
• Music Library Streaming Music Databases

Earth Week Events @ UNCG

In this podcast Jenny Paige, Environmental and Sustainability Manager of UNCG's Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling(OWRR), discusses Earth Week Events at UNCG as well as information on other sustainable events and what exactly the OWRR does to make UNCG a "green" place to be!

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Beth Filar Williams, & Jenny Paige

Time: 7:25 | Size: 6.8 MB | Download .mp3 | Transcript

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

Links:

• Earth Week Events
• UNCG Sustainability Committee
• UNCG Sustainability Film Series
  
• UNCG Green
• OWRR Staff
  

Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration

In this podcast, we interview Dr. Hephzibah Roskelly, professor in English and Women & Gender Studies at UNCG, who came up with the idea to work with the library to host a reading of all Shakespeare's sonnets for William Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration. Drop by the lawn in front of the University Libraries on April 24, 2009, from 2-5:30pmwith cake served at the end of the readings.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Beth Filar Williams, & Dr Hephzibah Roskelly

Time: 5:28 |Size: 5 MB | Download .mp3 | Download .wav | Transcript

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro); sonnet reading from LibriVox read by Nikolle Doolin (end)

Subject Specialists @ the library

Coming back from spring break, two students talk about the papers they have to get done -- and how to use a subject librarian to help find information.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, students Jeremy Washburn and Natalia Davis-Whitehorn

Time: 2:15 |Size: 2.05 MB | Download .mp3 | Download .wav | Transcript

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro), "crowd sm conf rm jumbled conversations" by cognito perceptu at freesound.org (crowd chatter)

Human Rights: a New Model for Librarianship

As part of the lecture series hosted by the University Libraries and the department of Library and Information Science, Kathleen de la Pena McCook, presents her lecture: "Human Rights: a New Model for Librarianship." This recording was made Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Hannah Winkler, and Kathleen de la Pena McCook

Time: 47:31 | Size: 43.5 MB | Download

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

(no transcript available)

Links: Kathleen de la Pena McCook Interview, 11:18

Blogs by McCook:

• A Librarian at the Kitchen Table
• Union Librarian
• Librarian
• Working Librarian

The NEW Interior Architecture Library

In this week's podcast, Mary Jane Conger, Head of the Cataloging Dept at UNCG, speaks at the opening of the Interior Architecture Department's new library about the year long project of cataloging and organizing the piled up books, samples and serials that comprise the collection, and some of the unique items unearthed through the process.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Beth Filar Williams, and Mary Jane Conger

Time: 9:41 | Size: 8.8 MB | Download | Transcript

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

Links discussed in podcast:

• Interior Architecture Dept | Dr. Anna Marshall-Baker
• Jackson Library Cataloging Staff
  
• Library Catalog (choose limit by location: Interior Architecture Library)
  
• Silver Jubilee Walkway
• Architectural preservation in Japan
• A time that will not wait : restoring the visual order, Guilford County, N.C.
• An Interim North Carolina state plan for historic preservation
• Frank Lloyd Wright SteelCase
• The complete Hafele : Furniture hardware

Dr. Carr's Lecture: Museums And Libraries And The Rescue Of American Voices

This week's podcast is a recording of the lecture by Dr. David Carr called Museums And Libraries And The Rescue Of American Voices from 2/4/09. Dr. Carr is Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science, UNC Chapel Hill, and author of The Promise of Cultural Institutions, (2003) and A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries(2006). This lecture was co-sponsored by the UNCG Department of History, the UNCG Universities Libraries, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum.

Summary of this lecture (no transcript available) Carr says that everything we know and learn as individuals is surrounded by contexts that connect our knowledge and thinking to other people, to our communities and beyond, and to our nation as a place of progress and renewal. In a democracy, museums and libraries are the cultural instruments best able to approach the complexities, passions, empathies, curiosities, and ambiguities of experience. Cultural institutions are for our common stories, for the communication of evidence and value, for observations of public memory, and for reflection on the questions that remain with us always. Libraries and museums are essential parts of American democratic practice; they are places for public critical thinking, and for the reflection that brings people together in progressive reciprocity.

Hosts: Irma Minerva, Benjamin Filene (UNCG - Director of Public History), and Dr David Carr

Time: 38:07 | Size: 35 MB | Download

Music: "ants........................" by Anchor Méjans (intro)

Links:

• Hometown by Tracy Kidder
  
• Queen's Public Library
• National September 11 Memorial & Museum

note: the sound quality is poor and varies throughout the lecture.