Comments on: This and That

By: heather whipple

heather whipple — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:47:43 +0000

no problem — I’m very familiar with managing moderating queues…

just wanted to clarify that “heading to the nypl” can be done from the comfort of your home internet connection. There’s quite a lot of fulltext available online from home with your library card (this goes for many libraries around the world). What’s there is certainly not always the best content for any given project, but often you can find something good enough (if “good enough” is sufficient) and sometimes the perfect article is actually there in all its virtual glory.

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:48:51 +0000

Heather: sorry your post didn’t go up earlier. It went into the moderating queue cause of all the links and I only just noticed it. Ooops! Thanks so much! I knew getting the info was going to require me getting off my arse and heading librarywards. I’m a recovering research scholar who hasn’t done any of that for, oh, more than two years now. Maybe it’s time I got my hands dirty in some dusty archive. Or, you know, head to the NYPL as suggested . . .

Sondra: glad to point you to it. I’m thinking I have to get a copy too.

By: sondra

sondra — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 06:46:42 +0000

thanks for the link to that review. now I have to find a copy of that boook.

By: heather whipple

heather whipple — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:00:55 +0000

warning: potentially excessive librarian blather below (not many reference questions during the summer where I work, so sometimes I go looking for them). you probably already know about the NYPL resources, but just in case: On the NYPL list of Music websites, they have a link to the free Blues Bibliographic Database. A search on just the word Broonzy brings up 63 citations, but none for the song title. NYPL has lots of music-related databases, though only a few of them are available online from home. There might be useful stuff (er, for this topic, I mean) in the history section too.