Byrne and Eno Together Again

Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is a new David Byrne/Brian Eno collaboration, their first in 30 years. Give a listen & take a look:



The songs can be downloaded now for a small fee, you can buy a CD + downloading priviledges for a bit more, and for completists there's a $70 package with all the above and lots of extras.

Even better than a new disc: David's touring again, albeit without Eno. He'll appear at Cleveland's Allen Theater on Thursday October 23rd 2008. Even without Brian, it'd be worth the road trip. Visit the everythingthathappens website for more details about the tunes and the tour.

And yeah, I'm a fanboy: I saw Talking Heads tours supporting Fear of Music, Remain In Light (both albums feature Eno as a musician and producer), Speaking in Tongues (documented in the Jonathan Demme film Stop Making Sense), and David's Feelings solo tour in 1997.

OverDrive's Going Mo-bile

Check out this August 11 PW article on the OverDrive Digital Bookmobile's kickoff at NYPL. This baby's a digital sandbox on wheels.

There's good news for users of that little Apple music player you may have heard about. Bookmobile visitors were treated to:

... demonstrations of how to download for free its ebooks, audiobooks, music, and video titles onto various mobile devices—including, in the case of the 3000 MP3 audiobook titles OverDrive introduced to its catalog of 20,000 WMA files in June, the iPod.

OverDrive modestly set out to create THE digital content distribution model for libraries. Their commitment to the MWA format for audios kept libraries from penetrating the huge iPod customer base, which must have limited OverDrive's file sales. By adding iPod-compatible files, OverDrive may be on its way to intergalactic domination. It's gonna take a big dog to knock them off their pedestal.

I want my - I want my - I want my MP3s.

Pay No Attention to the Blogger Behind the Curtain

Let's get this party started! The purpose of this blog is:

• To encourage participation by all peoples interested in non-print media in libraries.
• To examine defunct library media so that the decisions we make today are well-informed.
• To discuss the present challenges of analyzing, managing and modernizing media collections.
• To look toward the future of consumer media, DRM, online distribution models, copyright/permissions issues, etc. and their impact of library media acquisiton and management.
• To confer, converse, and otherwise hob-nob with my sister and brother library media wizards.

I leave the highly technical IT aspects of media librarianship to other bloggers and to those who wish to comment. I plan to update once a week, more often if I can.