News from the Mudd

It's the last day of May, "What You Think Upon Grows" day. We have no idea what that means, but we're all over "World No-Tobacco Day," which is also celebrated today. Remember this glorious month that was by singing the following "May" songs, which are available for your listening pleasure at the Mudd.

The Lusty Month of May (Loewe)

This Sweet and Merry Month of May (Byrd)

The Winds of May (Susa)

Quebec May (Coulthard)

Love in May (Parker)

In May That Lusty Season (Traditional)

Citing ARTstor and JSTOR in the Works Cited section or bibliography of your work is a lot less complicated than you might think. For ARTstor, one method has you include the following:

Artist's name
Title of work. Date of work.
Museum name and location.
Date you looked at the image in ARTstor.
ARTstor: ARTstor ID number

You can arrange these elements in the order required by the citation format you're using. No need for long URLs, as you can just indicate that you used ARTstor by name or with the database URL http://www.artstor.org. See ARTstor's help for more information and other options.

To cite JSTOR, you can forget about the long permanent URLs as well. All of the most commonly used citation formats--APA, MLA, Chicago--let you use the main URL for citations. So all you need to include is http://www.jstor.org and the date you got the article from the database.

For more information on citing electronic resources, see the library's guide to citing electronic documents.

June will soon be busting out all over us, and that means another round of holidays and observances. June is, inexplicably, Turkey Lovers Month. If that has nothing to do with turkey dinners, we don't want to know about it.
We here at the Mudd love to talk like other people, but we also love to eat. Stayed glued to this spot for official, unofficial and wacky food-related observances during the month of June. Read about all food-related days, weeks and months in today's (May 30, 2007) New York Times in an article titled "Having a Snack? Make It a Holiday."

We can't help it. We love ancestry.com. Here's Seeley G. Mudd's WWI draft registration card.

Ancestry.com, a Utah-based, for-profit web site of ancestral records, has finished a year-long project. They have digitized over 90 million U.S. military records from the National Archives and Records Administration going back to the settling of Jamestown through 1975. You need to register, but you can search these records FREE until June 6, D-Day. Do some genealogical research or find interesting stuff like Houdini's draft card.

If you know anything about us here at the Mudd, you know we enjoy talking like other people - not that we don't think we're pretty great ourselves. Talk Like a Pirate Day (Sept. 19 - not too late to start gearing up) is practically our national holiday. Now another fabulous "Talk Like" day has come to our attention, and it's tomorrow!

Talk Like Bob Dylan day celebrates a voice that (as NPR listeners described it) sounds like
"Dice rolling on a busy market street."
"When you get highly chlorinated pool water up your nose."
"A washing machine gone off balance."
"Trying to read an algebraic formula after three shots of tequila."

Of course, nothing beats the real thing, so hop over to the Mudd and listen to Dylan's Biograph, or view the DVD No Direction Home.

Sure 'n' we're havin' a bunch more CDs for your listening pleasure. Today Lawrence University's own perfomers take the stage. We've got multiple performances of the latest operas, plus the Symphony Orchestra on its own. Both Gianni Schicchi and the Orchestra feature LU's quadruple-threat, Garth Neustadter. There's also some electronic music and still more Mengelberg.

Ever wonder what song was the most popular on the day you were born? What your parents were dancing to just before you decided to appear? What tune the nurses hummed while you were being bathed for the first time? Here's a place to find the #1 Billboard song on any given day in any year back to 1890 when Billboard was, uh, written on stone tablets? Actually, any pre-1940 tunes were taken from the book Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music. The Mudd's reference collection has Joel Whitburn Presents a Century of Pop Music: A Year-By-Year Top 40 Rankings of the Songs & Artists That Shaped a Century, stretching from 1900-1999.

It's today! The day we've all been waiting for: the 105th anniversary of the birth of Meredith Willson, musician, playwright, composer, and radio star. Search LUCIA for Meredith Willson and, in honor of Willson's greatest creation, Marian the Librarian, sing to your librarian today.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and social commentator, Susan Faludi, will speak at the Lawrence Honors Convocation on Tuesday, May 22, 2007, at 11:10 a.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel. As always, we have put together a list of library resources related to our speaker.

In May 2005, ARTstor and the University of Michigan announced a partnership through which they would make available digital versions of many of the images previously distributed by the University of Michigan's non-profit slide distribution service. The collaboration focused initially on the ACSAA Color Slide Project, which was digitized in partnership with the American Council for Southern Asian Art. ARTstor recently announced the completion of this project and the inclusion of more than 12,000 ACSAA Color Slide Project images in the ARTstor Digital Library. These images have significantly enriched ARTstor's holdings in the South Asian art, complementing the related materials from the Huntington Archive of Asian Art.

ARTstor and the University of Michigan are now collaborating to digitize the majority of the slides from another important archive at the University of Michigan's Department of the History of Art: the archive associated with Asian Art Photographic Distribution, which focuses on the art of East Asia.

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of Appleton, Wisconsin, this online collection contains correspondence and photographs documenting the creation of Lawrence University. With the founding of Lawrence University in 1847, the area around the college grew into the community of Appleton. In other words, Lawrence was here first! The city of Appleton is named in honor of Sarah Appleton Lawrence, the wife of Amos Lawrence, the founder of Lawrence University.

The physical formats of these items are available in the University Archives, located on Level B of the library.

Click here to view the collection

Wondering what types of events are taking place to celebrate Appleton's Sesquicentennial? Go here for a list of events and other useful information about Appleton.

http://www.postcrescent.com/includes/newspaper/marketing/celebrate/index.shtml

The excitement is building for the 105th anniversary of Meredith Willson's birth.
Interesting tidbit #2: Two other musicals are set in Iowa: The Pajama Game (DVD with Doris Day,) (piano vocal score,) (CD, also with Doris Day,) and State Fair (the 1996 Broadway musical version and the vocal selections.

On this day film composers Dimitri Tiomkin (1894) and Max Steiner (1888) were born. Coincidence? We don't think so.
View some films from the Mudd scored by Tiomkin and Steiner.
While you're at it, view a film featuring another of today's birthday boys, Fred Astaire (1899.)

There's just too many of 'em to hold off for another day. Here we have your symphonies (Brahms,) your jazz (Ornett Coleman's Pulizter Prize-winning CD, plus a return engagement of the Very Tall Band,) your Italian madrigal comedy (sung in English yet,) some saxophone stuff, some trumpet stuff, and some home-grown Small Jazz Groups, two of which are directed by, dare we say it?, Lee Tomboulian.

They just keep a-coming in. Today we have Mingus and Martinu, Salerno-Sonnenberg and Schadeberg, plus John Duke at the piano playing his own songs, with baritone Donald Boothman. Something for everyone.

We forgot to tell you last week was "Eat Dessert First Week," but we're making it up to you now. Friday, May 11 is "Eat What You Want Day," Saturday, May 12 is "National Nutty Fudge Day," and next Tuesday the 15th is "National Chocolate Chip Day." As part of your celebration, you might want to try this spectacular (and easy) brownie recipe.
Topping off the week (and coincidentally, Meredith Willson's 105th birthday,) May 18 is "National Pizza Party Day."

Zowie. That's all we can say about this fantastic new resource. The Mozarteum in Austria has digitized the printed version of the complete works of Mozart, and, as you know, he was no slouch when it came to churning out the music. You can search by K. number, category, editor, key, or keyword - in German or in English! Or you can browse each volume. This gem is also accessible through LUCIA.

(It's that time of the term again....)

ATTENTION STUDENTS: The last day to submit interlibrary loan requests is Friday May 18.

Note: All interlibrary loan materials are due back on Monday June 4.

Please contact the Interlibrary Loan office if you have any questions or concerns. lucialib@lawrence.edu

Imagine John Cage as a young whippersnappper. Here he appears (47 years ago) on the TV show "I've Got a Secret" (ask your grandad,) performing his 1959 composition "Water walk." The video is courtesy of WFMU, "an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in the New York City area."

Or maybe that should be Feets-up. Tomorrow (May 8) is No Socks Day. No Socks Day is a copyrighted holiday created by the people at Wellcat.com.
Before you commit yourself to going sock-less, check the weather for Appleton. You should be ok, but does anyone remember May 1, 2005? That's hail, people.

Today may be Respect for Chickens Day, but it also signifies that it's only 2 more weeks until the 105th anniversary of Meredith Willson's birth. Watch for interesting tidbits about this son of Mason City, Iowa; The Music Man, and musicals in general.
Interesting tidbit no. 1: "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Goodnight, My Someone" are the same song. See for yourself.

Heres another batch of new CDs. And what would a new batch of CDs be without a couple of selections featuring Lee Tomboulian? When does the man have time to sleep?

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, telephone numbers began with 2 letters. Think PEnnsylvania 6-5000, BUtterfield-8, and BEachwood 45789. This cool web site gives you young'uns a glimpse into a time when phone numbers weren't all numerical. Click on the Search Our Database link to find historical information on these exchanges sent in by numerous contributors.

ARTstor is pleased to announce the completion of an important collaboration with the Frick Art Reference Library. This collaboration has focused on the Frick Library's renowned Negative Collection, an archive of approximately 60,000 large-format negatives that is prized by scholars as a unique visual record of lesser-known and largely unpublished European and American paintings. These paintings are often documented with invaluable, unpublished information and scholarly opinions assembled under the Frick's auspices. The Negative Collection is the product of both ongoing acquisitions programs and dedicated photographic campaigns sponsored by the Frick Library.

Don't have a conniption when you see today's new CD pile . Ok, so all of the CD spines are in Japanese. You can listen to the music in any language you want.

Harken back to those poetic days of yore -- last week! For National Poetry Month, April 2007, the Library asked visitors to post their favorite poems. As you might expect, we got a wonderful collection.

It's a rollicking good time with today's new CD pile. We've got something old (Mozart,) something new (LU's Jennifer Fitzgerald as performer and composer,) some good singing (Paul Robeson,) and something recorded at the Blue Note. In addition you can listen to the latest Wind Ensemble concert.

The Visual Resources Library is happy to announce that the Anthropology Collection of digital images is now available to you from the Digital Collections web page. These images are from archeological sites in North America, Mesoamerica, Jericho, and China. There are also images of primates and human evolution.
To view the collection please select "Anthropology Collection" from the CONTENTdm list of image collections at: http://www.lawrence.edu/library/images/index.shtml