Arts & Entertainment
Iowa City Public Library Digital Music Program Featured on National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered'
The Iowa City Public Library's idea about how to share local music gets a national audience.
For the record, I totally interviewed this Jason Paulios guy before he was famous.
That's right, word of the Iowa City Public Library and its innovative local music project has spread once again, this time hitting a bigger stage on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" via the work of Iowa Public Radio reporter Clay Masters.
Here's a blurb from the fulll article, where you can also listen to the segment that aired on NPR:
Iowa City librarian Jason Paulios pulls out his smartphone, enters his library-card number and begins downloading an album by local metal band Blizzard at Sea.
"So it's extracting now," he says, eyes on the screen. "It's at about 90 percent."
The download takes about five minutes to complete. Paulios says it's a great way to check out local music: You could be waiting for a concert to start, download an album by the band you're about to see and then listen to it on the way home.
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This is the Iowa City Library Local Music Project. The idea for it came to retired librarian John Hiett while he was sitting in a bar, watching a performance by one of his favorite local artists. He realized he was spending the library's budget on a bunch of musicians who weren't from Iowa.
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