What’s New at Schaffer Library

  Do you enjoy reading The New Yorker fiction issue? Now you can subscribe to their free podcast series, a monthly reading and conversation with fiction editor Deborah Treisman available at iTunes.

Each month they invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine’s archives to read and discuss.
Authors include Jhumpa Lahiri, Louise Erdrich, Tobias Wolff, and Antonya Nelson.

This month listen to the Books and Blades episode where Orhan Pamuk reads and discusses Vladimir Nabokov’s “My Russian Education.”   Episodes date back to 2007.

Download iTunes here if you don’t have it already.

Voices from the Days of Slavery: Stories, Songs and Memories includes oral histories and interviews with African Americans who endured the hardships of slavery. These recordings document the first-person accounts of several individuals whose life experiences spanned the period during and after slavery. The podcasts are drawn from several collections in the American Folklife Center Archives, one of the preeminent audio-visual repositories of national and international folklife, history and cultural expressions.

Check out the extensive audio and video podcasts available at Apple’s iTunes Store News & Politics page, which offers free any-time access to podcasts from TV news shows including: Circuits with David Pogue, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, Democracy Now, Countdown with Keith Olberman, The Rachel Maddow Show, Anderson Cooper 360, and many more.

Download iTunes here if you don’t have it already.

WilsonWeb recently added a “listen” button next to its full-text HTML articles.

WilsonWeb’s new ReadSpeaker tool converts the databases’ HTML full-text articles into audio files for immediate listening or downloading for later, with no plug-ins or special software necessary. Listen to articles as streaming audio or save the files in MP3 format to iPods and other portable devices, for listening as you commute, relax or exercise. The new tool covers content from some 2,500 publications back as far as 15 years.

Databases that feature ReadSpeaker, include Applied Science & Technology Full Text; Art Full Text; General Science Full Text; Humanities Full Text; Social Sciences Full Text; Wilson Business Full Text; Wilson OmniFile, and more.