From agng at facstaff.wisc.edu  Wed Mar 19 06:54:34 2008
From: agng at facstaff.wisc.edu (Alan Ng)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:54:34 -0500
Subject: [irishtune.info] New items in index and improvements
Message-ID: <47E11B1A.3070802@facstaff.wisc.edu>

Dear irishtune.info news subscribers,

Hope you've all recovered from the St. Patrick's Day chaos, if you had 
to experience it. Here's what's happened at irishtune.info since the 
last newsletter on November 24:

1) Ten New Items in Index

* Eight CDs:

James Kelly
    http://www.irishtune.info/album/JK+4/
Catherine & John McEvoy
    http://www.irishtune.info/album/KlmFcy/
Paddy O'Brien, Jamie Gans, Daithi Sproule
    http://www.irishtune.info/album/SnugBl/
Kilfenora Ceili Band
    http://www.irishtune.info/album/KCB+3/
Seamus Egan
    http://www.irishtune.info/album/SEgn+1/
Patrick Street
    http://www.irishtune.info/album/PS+7/
Martin Hayes
    http://www.irishtune.info/album/MH+5/
?thas
    http://www.irishtune.info/album/Aths+1/

* Two tunebooks:

Josephine Keegan's _A Drop in the Ocean_ (JKg 3)

Pat Mitchell's _The Dance Music of Willie Clancy_ (WC)

* Thank you to:

    Terry Moylan at NPU for donating a high-quality reproduction of the 
out-of-print Willie Clancy book.

    Baxter Rogers for donating the Kilfenora, Seamus Egan, and Patrick 
Street CDs.

    RWW Taylor for funding most of the cost of purchasing the Keegan book.

    James Kelly for donating a copy of his CD.

    ?thas for donating a copy of their CD.


2) Site Improvements

Motivated by feedback a long time ago from Lia Zito, Elizabeth Simcock, 
and David Moulton, (thank you!) I finally figured out a way to make the 
pop-up windows in the Tune Finder results behave nicely when you reach 
the bottom of your computer screen. You'll notice that the popups near 
the bottom of the screen no longer extend out of sight, below the edge 
of your screen, and instead appear _above_ the relevant search result, 
in full view.

Also, RWW Taylor, who is working on his own tune database, one focusing 
on tunebooks, has been sending me regular reports of omissions or errors 
   he has identified in irishtune.info's tune bibliographies. You can 
see my detailed acknowledgements of his contributions here:
http://www.irishtune.info/faq/support.html#errors

It's quite a compliment that he is investing so much time working 
through the entire irishtune.info database in order to improve his own 
database.


3) Support

As always, if any of you are able to help out with the expenses of 
operating irishtune.info, consider these options:

http://www.irishtune.info/faq/support.html

And thank you to those of you who continue to make purchases after 
following the "availability" links throughout irishtune.info which lead 
you to retailers who carry the CDs and books covered in the index. This 
source of income continues to be the most significant one for 
irishtune.info. Remember that irishtune.info only gets credited if you 
_start_ your visit to a retailer via a link from irishtune.info.

Enjoy the new season! The snow is finally melting here in Wisconsin ...

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Alan Ng, PhD .  agng at facstaff.wisc.edu  .  http://www.alan-ng.net/
Madison, Wisconsin, USA