Yeah, I'm the TAX MAN!

April is tax month... as if you need to be reminded. But did you know that taxes and taxation and tax problems show up in a variety of musical elements aside from the Beatles? 

Come by and check out our display! See if you can figure out why certain things are included.

Irving Berlin wrote a song, on contract from the IRS, called I Paid My Income Tax Today... you can see the full US Archives documentation of the approval of funds to get it orchestrated, parts copies, and recorded at here http://www.blueoregon.com/2008/04/a-tax-day-messa/

New video resources in the UWM Libraries

The UWM users now have access to several new video databases. They include documentaries, ethnographic films, newsreels, and much more, nearly all with full side-by-side transcripts. You can also use the online 'clipping' tool to make excerpts to embed in your lectures. Quite remarkable.

Go play !

(the links are proxied and should prompt you for your e-pantherID/password... if you are not, please go to the Libraries' website - http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries - and click on the link to 'Resources A-Z')


American History in Video
The largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries

Black Studies in Video
Collection featuring award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.
In partnership with California Newsreel, the database provides unique access to their African American Classics collection, and includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations.

Ethnographic Video Online -  vol 1
Provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior— with more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

Filmakers Library Online
Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

March is Music in Our Schools Month!

To celebrate, we've filled the glass cases in the Music Library with a wide variety of music education related materials... here's a sample.

Stop by and take a closer look!

Happy Birthday, Dr Seuss!

March 2nd would have been Theodore Geisel's 109th birthday (if I did my math correctly). To celebrate, Eleanor Peterson (Music Library Intern) and Sarah Reynolds (Music & Curriculum student assistant) put a bulletin board together and pulled a selection of his books for display.

Can you identify the books that the graphics are from ?

New Resource! Smithsonian Global Sound!

The UWM Libraries have subscribed to Smithsonian Global Sound! This is a wonderful resource that includes nearly everything in Smithsonian Folkways, plus music from a number of other record labels that now fall under Smithsonian's auspices.

• Music from 169 countries from around the world
• Over 1,000 distinct genres and sub-genres available
• Over 1,400 cultural groups represented
• Over 450 languages represented
• Data on 100,000s of artists and ensembles 

UWM users can get to it through the Music Library's "Database" tab on the Music Library website or the Libraries-wide "Resources AtoZ" page.

It's Black History Month in the Music Library

February is Black History Month. There have been, and are, so many fantastic black musicians in all genres - classical, jazz, blues, pop, hip-hop... We've put together a couple of display cases filled with books, scores, and sound recordings. Here's a taste. Come by and visit to learn more!

 If you see something in the case that you'd like to look at, please don't hesitate to ask us to get it out for you!!


(thanks go to Eleanor Peterson and Amanda Smith for putting the display cases together!)

John Lennon... has it really been 32 years?!

December 8th is the 32nd anniversary of John Lennon's murder. It seems inconceivable to me. We've together put a display of materials related to Lennon.

Do you remember where you were when you heard the news?
 

We've also gotten in a new, quite comprehensive, collection of his letters (there's an audio version as well - I believe that the Media Library will be getting it)

 

The call number is (RMU) ML420.L38 A4 2012