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Exercise 23

I found this whole experience to be interesting, educational, and rewarding. While I already knew about some of the exercises, like Library Thing and Flickr, I learned more about Del.icio.us and RSS, which I have been using since. I especially liked the exercise on image generators! If this opportunity was given again, I would most certainly participate. I enjoyed the challenges that were offered.

Audiobooks and LibriVox

I don't usually listen to a lot of audiobooks, only on long car trips. Most of what I like to listen to isn't in the public domain. For this exercise, I chose to listen to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Twas the night before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore.

Podcasts

I had already added a podcast feed to my RSS list on Bloglines back when we first did the Bloglines exercise. That was a link to the podcasts from the Bob Rivers show (out of Seattle).

For this exercise, I dutifully went to Podcast.net and typed the word "library" as a keyword. The first one that caught my eye was called Erotic Xpressions from the Lusty Library. But I thought that might not be the kind of podcast that would really relate to my work here at SPL. So I searched on, and found podcasts from SirsiDynix, which I added to my Bloglines account. I listened to the first 10 minutes of a podcast called 25 Technologies in 50 minutes. It was interesting because he talked about RSS, wikis, and blogs and their use as library tools.

Downloadable music at SPL

While the music and audio choices are not something I would listen to on a regular basis, I can see the use for this if I were looking for something obscure and esoteric that fell into the categories offered.

In African American Songs I chose the genre of Blues, hoping to find B.B. King there. No such luck. So I browsed through some of the artists, and finally settled on a recording called Just one more time by Pigmeat Pete and Catjuice Charlie. Okay, the only reason I chose it was BECAUSE their names were Pigmeat Pete and Catjuice Charlie. Can't go wrong with a name like that. The only problem was the sound quality of the recording, but since it was recorded around 1930 that's what you get.

In Classical Music Library I chose the genre of Stage & Screen, and the subgenre of TV Music. There I listened to instrumental recordings of the theme songs to Bonanza and Rawhide.

In Smithsonian Global Sound, I chose the genre of Children's, and was able to listen to Woody Guthrie's 1913 Massacre. 'Cause when I think of children's music, I think of massacre!

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