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Remembering ALA 2007: Introduction

Posted by Thom on July 1, 2007

Lobby of Washington Convention Center

If you’ve been a regular reader of Audio Artifacts in the past, I hope you’ll continue reading for a series of posts coming up on my experiences at this year’s American Library Association conference, held in the city I live…Washington, D.C. Many other bloggers have already talked about their experiences, and it is in this esprit de corps that I offer these posts, which are really not audio-related, but relate to the larger sphere in which I work: through cataloging, music librarianship, and media archives.

I had not planned to go to conference one month ago. (Or else I would have payed a lot less). This was poor planning on my part, but with a lot of pressures and frustrations in my life, I just thought it was not important. I was wrong. The chance to attend the nation’s largest library conference is an event not to be missed. I don’t know if I will ever have the chance to go again, but it was rewarding on a number of levels.

I was not an official blogger, nor do I intend to represent any one, or any organization besides myself. It was a mini-vacation for me, but one that helped me revisit some of the lessons I learned in library school two years ago.

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Please let the spinning stop

Posted by Thom on December 18, 2006

An excellent article in the Los Angeles Times on how new musicians are making it in the new media landscape. It talks about who the new players are (blogs, Starbucks, NPR), how locality is still important (hip-hop, Nashville), and how critics are tired of buzz for buzz sake.

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