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Updates to Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

 60 new plays have been added to Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection! This update brings Audio Drama to 241 plays; when complete, it will have 300 plays, and additional scene-level indexing will be coming in 2011. Some of the new additions include:

• Neil Simon's Barefoot In The Park, starring Eric Stoltz and Laura Linney
• Molière's The Misanthrope starring Kevin Gudahl, Hollis Resnik, and Harry Althaus
• Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest starring James Marsters
• Moisés Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde starring Simon Templeman
• Shakespeare's Pericles
• Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky

Also new with this update is Send To Mobile functionality! Now you can take the collection with you by streaming works directly to your mobile device.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection is available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. For more information, including free trial and pricing requests, please email [email protected].

Article on QR codes in College & Research Library News

College & Research Library News has just published their November 2010 issue including an article featuring QR codes from Alexander Street Press.

"QR codes and academic libraries: Reaching mobile users," by Robin Ashford (George Fox University librarian and "Librarian by Design" blogger), calls Alexander Street "an innovative library vendor," quotes our President, Stephen Rhind-Tutt, and includes a long explanation of how our Send-to-Mobile functionality works alongside a Music Online screenshot.

The cover of the C&RLN print issue is a QR code, which links to a delicious page with lots of resources on QR codes.

Read the article at http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/10/526.full!