In my job I’ve been spending a lot of time looking up this or that application, figuring out if it would be best to do something with a Web-based or a desktop […]
Library of Congress Releases Collection of English-Dialect Recordings
The LoC has announced a new online exhibit from the American Folklife Center: “American English-Dialect Recordings: The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection”. This site has 59 audio recordings — 118 hours — […]
Free Music Archive Launches in Beta
In the midst of all this talk about the price changes for iTunes, music costs at Amazon and Wal-Mart, etc., I thought it would be nice to cover the Free Music Archive, […]
UCLA Launches Huge Archive of Mexican, Mexican-American Recordings
UCLA has launched the Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican-American Recordings, which contains about 41,000 recordings made between 1905 and 1955. If you’re on the UCLA campus or a UCLA student, you’ll […]
The Hills Are Alive With 1,000 Nature Calls
The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah has a very fun digital archive — 1,000 calls of birds, coyotes, frogs, and more on a new site called the Western […]