Library of Congress American Memory Collection

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Nov 11 - 09:00 AM

Great little link there, Gargoyle! Thanks!

SRS

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 08 Nov 11 - 07:31 PM

I like LOC - the video's do not require "Flash" a minion of 666.....with SOL's up the MAX.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

I also like www.britishpathe.co.uk for the same reason.

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 08:27 PM

Some fine stuff and guess what??? Last I heard anyone can go there and listen to as much of it as they like...

Some of the Lomax tapes have become CDs (with the LofC permission) and they are priceless...

B~

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 08:22 PM

Joe, you are more than kind. Thank you.

However, when I sent that link I was unaware it opened all THIS. I have died and gone to heaven.

BM

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Nov 11 - 01:44 AM

What I found most interesting are the liner notes from the Archive of Folk Song recordings.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 06:58 PM

999 has been sending me interesting links for years. Today, he sent me this one:
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/LP/AFS_L61_opt.pdf

Turned out to be the liner notes for Archive of Folk Song LP #61, a collection of railroad songs.

That inspired me to go to loc.gov and search for archife of folk song (singular). It's going to take me weeks to go through all the treasures I found!

Thanks, 999!!!

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Look at this: How to do research in the Archive of Folk Culture
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: Burke
Date: 03 May 07 - 07:08 PM

Googlization of all strikes again. There used to be a guided advanced search, now all you get is a single search box.

Sheet Music Collections are here. Then use the search box.

More Browse Options turned up some other alternatives.

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 02 May 07 - 07:58 PM

Joe, I pretty well use what Mick Pierce suggests.
I sometimes am flabbergasted, however, by what I miss.

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 02 May 07 - 04:05 AM

This is a link that I find useful: Browse/Search The Music Collections. (It comes from the more detailed index page for AM: AM Collection Finder from the performing arts, music link) and you can select which collections to browse.

A direct link there that I use a lot for searching is this one America Singing - 19C Song Sheets

Mick

Subject: RE: Library of Congress American Memory Collection
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 May 07 - 01:57 AM

One thing has bugged me about the American Memory Collection. They used to have a page that made it reasonably easy for me to search and find sheet music; but either they did away with that page, or I lost track of it. Since then, I've had to go through far too many search results to find what I'm looking for.

But perhaps there's hope.

The link Kat posted today led to a page that had a "help" link, and that Help page had a Search Help (click) link. So, now maybe I can study the Search Help and devise a reasonable way of finding things.

Thanks, Kat.

-Joe-

Subject: Library of Congress American Memory
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 May 07 - 08:08 PM

I saw this mentioned in various threads, pointing to specific items, but I thought a thread of its own would be a good idea.

Library of Congress American Memory Index.