Happy Friday! I’m clearing icons off my desktop and came across this, which I wrote at least a year ago (the links were to ANTPAC– remember that?). I don’t quite remember why I wrote it, but it’s time to delete…

I’m putting it here because it contains some good Friday music to listen to. Also… it contains the answer to a recent crossword clue.

KPOP

One of the benefits of working in the cataloging department is that we get to see most of the new ‘stuff’ that the rest of the library is ordering. It’s really interesting! Y’all buy some good stuff.

I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight one group of material that we’ve recently received, talk about why I find it interesting, and also some of what makes it challenging to catalog.

Ying has recently ordered a significant amount of material for the Korea Corner relating to K-pop. We have received scholarly works examining the genre as well as CDs of contemporary popular groups. I’m sure I’m not alone in often listening to music at my desk, and so I thought that it would be interesting to listen to some of the music as it was passing through my hands. I’d previously dismissed K-pop as Backstreet Boys-type boy bands—I think because I’d first heard of the genre in the 1990s, dismissed it, and never really thought of it again. [Read more…]